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