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Creative arts is an important part of the child care curriculum because it allows children to practice self-expression, fine motor skills, thinking and many other skills. It is important for art activities not to be highly structured.
Art is a self-expression of your own interpretation or imagination.
Balance – between process and product (process being the doing part and product is the result at the end).
The joy of the art for small children is in the doing and making.
Creative arts involve – visual arts, music, drama and dance.
Arts can be made from real and imagined situations.
By 3 years of age children are able to sing, listen to and respond to a variety of music.
Play a number of basic instruments experiment with sounds and move to a range of music.
Why is a creative art important for children’s development?
Because it helps them develop in all areas such as:
Physical development: by helping them use their small and large muscles whether that be by carrying the art utensils such as a boxes or heavy objects. They are also using there fine motor skills such as when they are gripping pencil’s paint brushes etc. they are also using hand-eye co-ordination when moving their hand to the paper/cardboard box whether that be to draw or write something.
Cognitive
While being creative the children are learning the different colour names and being creative mixing colours to learn and experiment with what different colours they can make by mixing paint such as blue and red makes purple or mixing white and red makes pink. They would also be learning what different things feel like such a smooth, hard, rough soft etc.
Imagination
While being creative the children are using their own imagination thoughts coming up with ideas of what they want to make they use their own interpretation of how they see their creation forming and what they can do. They also are able to imagine what being another person, animal or play a role such as parent or shop owner.
Emotional
Helps the children show emotion/feelings and describe/draw how they are feeling also when an adult praises the child’s work they are helping to make the child/ren develop a high self-esteem and feel good about their creative ideas.
Social
While being creative or playing a role in the game the children are socializing/talking to the other children always coming up with new ideas, working together, sharing roles/equipment.
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