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Art Experiences that Promote Preschool Learning

Art Experiences that Promote Preschool Learning
Source: Young Children and the Arts: Making Creative Connections, 1998, pp. 11–12

  • Dance helps build motor control, body relationships, and a sense of direction.
  • Drawing, sculpting, and other visual arts develop spatial acuity.
  • Group activities, such as learning dance steps or singing songs, build social skills.
  • As children describe people and things in their world using pictures, body movements, and mime, they enhance their descriptive, nonverbal, cognitive capabilities.
  • Repeating stories, poems, and songs strengthens memory.
  • The art supplies children choose for their work reflects their approach to process and outcomes.



ART EDUCATION......

  • Plays a central role in cognitive, motor, language, and social-emotional development.
  • Motivates and engages children in learning, stimulates memory, facilitates understanding, enhances symbolic communication, promotes relationships, and provides an avenue for building competence.
  • Provides a natural source of learning. Child development specialists note that play is the business of young children; play is the way children promote and enhance their development. The arts are a most natural vehicle for play.
Source: Young Children and the Arts: Making Creative Connections, 1998, Introduction
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