Benefits
Discussing, creating, and participating in art activities:
- uses the right brain
- engages all the senses and involves a variety of modalities including the kinesthetic, auditory, and visual
- exercises cognitive skills such as reasoning ability, problem solving skills, creativity and inventiveness
- supports motor, language, and social-emotional development
- strengthens tactile perception (interpretation of information sent to the brain from the fingertips)
- teaches children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships, instead of just following rules
- shows children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer
- celebrates multiple perspectives.
- offers an outlet for expression beyond language