Whether your a teacher or daycare provider looking to supplement your curriculum with high quality art lessons or a parent or a nanny interested in encouraging and promoting the creative side of the young child you're responsible, art can be an integral component of a child's development. Most children exhibit a genuine enthusiasm for art that can claim their attention and ignite their imaginations. Art offers a child a unique means for self-expression and communication.
Art teaches children a wide variety of important skills. Children learn communication skills. Their pictures convey things they've seen, things they invent, and can express how they feel. In talking with a child about his or her artwork you promote the verbalization of their thoughts. Art also teaches problem-solving skills. It allows children to experiment with possibilities, explore solutions, and handle unexpected outcomes. Fine motor skills are also developed through the practice of art, whether in the control required to grip a paint brush and make the desired stroke or the development of the hand-eye coordination necessary to properly manipulate scissors.
According to the US Department of Education and the National Endowment for the Arts researchers found that learning in and through the arts:
- Contributes significantly to critical thinking, problem posing, problem-solving, and decision-making;
- Involves the communication, manipulation, interpretation and understanding of complex symbols, as much as language and mathematics;
- Fosters higher-order thinking skills of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation;
- Regularly engages multiple skills and abilities; and
- Develops a persons imagination and judgement.
A successful teacher remains a student. Let's learn through shared knowledge and experience!
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