Learn more about how visual arts activities accelerate your kids problem-solving skills, imagination, concentration and critical thinking skills

1. Why visual arts activities are important
for young children|Abrakadoodle

2. Direct benefits of painting & drawing
Tuning up motor skills:
Grasping pencils, crayons, chalk and paintbrushes helps children
develop their fine motor muscles. When they begin to enlarge the
space they are working on and magnify their drawings, they
experience movements. The physical movement of their hands, arms
and feet helps your child with writing, buttoning a coat and other
daily tasks that require controlled movements.

3. Direct benefits of painting & drawing
Cognitive development:
Art can help children learn and practice skills like patterning and
experience cause and effects (i.e., “when I press my crayon harder I
can make colours darker”. While busy playing, your child will get to
learn and practice critical thinking skills, making mental plans, imagine
images of what they intend to create and how best to follow through
with their plans.

4. Direct benefits of painting & drawing
Math skills:
Children can learn, create and begin to understand concepts like size,
shapes, make comparisons, and develop spatial reasoning. Visual arts
centre is perhaps the most efficient place where children will get to
learn about numbers which are essential for developing a clear
understanding as they come face-to-face with mathematical concepts
and their application across learning areas. Visual Arts Activities
inform problem-solving and the construction and design of objects in
the physical and the digital world.

5. Direct benefits of painting & drawing
Language skills:
Through visual arts education, children are encouraged to describe
and share their artwork, as well as the processes they instinctively
follow and develop language skills. Through Visual Arts Activities, you
can motivate your child to develop faster by actively listening and
asking open-ended questions. It is also a great opportunity for your
child to learn new vocabulary words from the projects she works on.

6. Nurturing the five senses
Help your child develop physically:
Art and craft activities at a Visual arts centre help support and
develop fine & gross motor skills and improve a child’s hand and eye
coordination. Bear in mind, there children are spending more and
more of their time interacting with digital devices, which means,
sooner than later, your toddler’s time will be devoted to viewing
screens by default!

7. Nurturing the five senses
Help your child manage emotions
A visual arts centre allows your child to bring their feelings out into
the open, and will be helping her make sense of and understand
these deeply felt feelings. This also helps build self-confidence in your
child to efficiently manage her feelings and emotions.
Visual arts centre activities that help to describe different emotions
and situations: role-playing, storytelling, drawing, modelling and
painting.

8. Nurturing the five senses
Help your child master social skills
Play activities at a visual arts centre are a great way to help build
friendships and strengthen bonds between you and your child as well
as with her friends. Visual arts centre activities that help develop
social skills: singing, dancing, acting, drawing, creating models, and
nature walks are all great ways to help friendship and bonding.

9. Nurturing the five senses
Help your child increase IQ
Creative art activities at a visual arts centre help your child to develop
many thinking skills. As stated earlier, these skills include problem-
solving, developing imagination, concentration and critical thinking
skills. By playing with different materials and tools, and discovering
new concepts and techniques, your child will be able to comprehend
basic mathematics and science concepts and develop her own ideas.

10. Conclusion
This is the kind of process art learning experience that inspires
children to think different, be innovative, and devise ways that teach
interesting things found in the real world. Drawing skills development
processes will change the way your child will discover and imagine.
Igniting their minds to think, play and learn like never before.
If you like to enrol your child in our children’s art classes or participate
in cognitive learning activities, give Abrakadoodle a call. Or better still,
make an appointment with the head of a centre near you.

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