Role of Arts in development and learning

When children are engaged in arts they are having fun, they are being entertained, however they are also learning and it becomes fun as well as educational for them.

learning through art.

Children are naturally born curious. They love to explore, discover, investigate, experience and wonder.

Let's wonder at line drawings.

From very early age children begin to take control of their limbs. They try to experience the world and see how it works. Children begin to observe and copy others in order to find how things operate and how they can control their environments. This unlimited notion of exploring helps them to activate their intellect, forming connection in the brain, stimulating both side of the brain and increasing the capacity of memory, attention and concentration. Arts also allows children from early years learn multiple skills that are useful and needed in their daily lives, but also it helps with learning.

These skills include:

Fine motor skills: children develop their fine motor muscles through grasping pencils, crayons, chalk and paintbrushes.

Cognitive skills: learning skills such as cause and effect, for example children learn what will happen if they push hard with a crayon (the colour becomes darker). They develop cognitive thinking for example they can make a mental plan and have a picture in their mind they can follow that thinking and paint it or draw it or sing it and act it and finally create it.

Maths skills: when children use items that are different in size and shapes and make comparison, count and use spatial reasoning they are developing their maths skills.

Language skills: when children are sharing their art works and describing their process they are using language skills. Even children who have difficulty speaking their art work encourages them to learn the right skill expressing their thoughts, feelings and design. Children’s reading skills improves and they can increase their vocabulary and learn new concepts.

Children also improve and learn social skills, importantly they learn to have a high level of self-esteem, feeling confident, gaining positive view about themselves, interacting well with others and building good relationships within their communities. This helps them to express themselves freely, openly and accurately.

Maths skills: counting

Developing language skills.