Creative Art

Physical Development

Creative art also allows your child to improve their perceptual abilities, hand-eye coordination and use both sides of the brain at once. In addition, creative arts are “nourishing for your child’s physical development.”

Artwork can provide a clear reflection of the world around us and how your child is developing physically. In addition, creative art can help your child represent themselves and their experiences through self-portraits, action figures, and drawings of their own lives and families.

The creative arts provide your child with new and unique ways to express and explore their world. Creative activities such as drawing, painting, sculpting, dancing, or acting out a story allow your child to express themselves in ways that support the development of many skills. In addition, creative art can help make abstract concepts like emotions, happiness, and anger easier for your child to understand since it incorporates both the left and right hemispheres of the brain – not done through verbal or logical explanations alone.

Social Development

Creative art can provide a tangible means for your child to consolidate their relationships and use other people’s perspectives. The creative activity makes it easier for your child to work together and resolve conflict than talk about it. Creative art allows your child to use symbols, analogy, and metaphor to communicate thoughts and feelings that may be difficult using words alone.”

Creative action provides a basis for exploring ideas and concepts. Creative art, therefore, can be a powerful tool for facilitating social development as it provides the potential to expand the range of communication between children.”

Cognitive Development

Creative activity is a process that encourages sustained mental focus. Creative arts have been identified as appropriate for developing thinking skills, problem-solving abilities, and memory. In addition, creative activities increase your child’s ability to think divergently and expand on their original thinking.

Creative arts can provide a means for your child to work through conflict, issues, obstacles, and solutions that may not be as easily identified or explained using only words. In addition, the creative activity allows your child to work through emotions, feelings, and experiences in a manner other than talking about them.

Creative arts provide your child with an arena for creative exploration where they can express how they think and feel about the world in ways that are not limited by words or their understanding of grammar or syntax.

Emotional Development

Creative art activities allow your child to explore, understand and develop methods to manage emotions. Creative arts help your child understand their feelings, the feelings of others, and how they may be similar or different from each other. Creative activity can provide opportunities for understanding, empathy, trust-building, and developing personal resiliency skills. Creative activities allow your child to communicate with peers about issues that might otherwise be difficult to discuss. Creative activities can provide your child with a means of expressing and working through feelings and emotions that may otherwise be inaccessible or intangible.

Imagination and Experimentation

Creative art helps your child learn how to imagine, plan, create and problem-solve in ways other than strictly cognitively. Creative activities encourage children to hypothesize, imagine, dream and goals. Creative art provides an avenue for your child to learn how to complete tasks independently or with assistance from others. Creative activities allow children to make choices about what they will create and within the limitations of their surroundings. Creative activities provide children with a means of experimenting and learning new things without costing them anything more than time. Creative arts can be used as a tool for children to learn about themselves, how they think, feel and act. Creative art provides an environment where children can engage with others in ways not limited by space or time.

Deepening Cultural and Self-Understanding

Creative activities provide opportunities for your child to develop their cultural understanding and awareness. Creative arts allow your child to work collaboratively to create or recreate something that they might not create alone. Creative activities provide an avenue for children to express their cultural perspectives, values, beliefs, and others’. Creative art provides opportunities for self-expression as it is the only area where the child has complete control over their thoughts, feelings, and actions. Creative arts can help your child work through any conflicts or issues that may arise around social-cultural differences. Creative activities allow children to express aspects of their cultural identity in ways not defined by words or language. Creative activity can also provide opportunities for networking within their peer groups and older children or adults. Creative activities are a way of helping children understand more about their world by providing them opportunities to create, experiment and problem-solve in the physical world around them. Creative arts make an environment where children can safely explore their creativity, practice new skills and work through problems that they may have without it costing them anything more than their time. Creative art is a tool that can help children develop skills in all areas of development where they might not otherwise have the opportunity. Creative activities give children the freedom to think outside the box, allowing them to express themselves freely within their imaginations and environments. Creative arts are an effective way of engaging children in the learning process.

Few creative art activities Includes:

1-    String Art

2-    Wall Clock Making

3-    Charcoal Art

4-    Mocktails

5-    Quilling

6-    Crochet

7-    DIY Home Décor

8-    Macrame

9-    Soap Making

Pursing creative arts has the inherent benefits of encouraging a child to exercise flexible thinking, de-stress, explore their creativity, and enhance learning through fun, the latter of which is the perfect indication of a healthy education system.