Learn more about how object-based art activities will help toddlers and preschoolers to make decisions and improve their creativity and imagination

1. Art objectives for toddlers and
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2. How art benefits toddlers
Art lessons for kids give young children a sense of spatial orientation –
this is a cognitive skill that helps with flexibility, dexterity and more.
For instance, carrying art materials and cleaning up after a session
helps in gross motor transferring skills, making decisions and learning
from mistakes. More importantly, by diving deeper into her
imagination, your child will be able to exercise her mind and gain a
sense of independence when she creates something of her very own.

3. How art benefits toddlers
The best thing is that art activities give little ones a sense of
accomplishment, boost their self-esteem, create opportunities and
accelerate social and emotional development processes. Gaining
confidence and feeling good about oneself is important for toddlers,
so patience, praise and a positive attitude go a long way in ensuring
art activities end up having the desired effect.

4. How art benefits toddlers
Always encourage your child to participate in any kind of art activity,
even if your little one isn’t ready to do much yet. Just keep at it, and
encourage your toddler to speak her mind and to tell you, in her own
words, what she is thinking and planning as she makes decisions.
Which of the colours she plans on using, what to put where. This
facilitates rapid verbal development and sentence formation
capabilities.

5. Keep your toddler’s art projects simple
Using beads or buttons helps your child with counting skills while
glueing objects together or colouring by numbers can help colour
selection, and improve vocabulary. Also, make sure you keep a close
watch while your toddler is busy engrossed with these tasks. Staying
alert will give you enough time to prevent your toddler from hurting
herself when a task involves cutting, or prevent her from accidentally
swallowing a bead when she is threading them.

6. Embark on a journey of growth together
Art activities help to spark your child’s natural curiosity and create her
own journey of exploration, discovery and development. What’s
more, opting for art activities at an early age is a very engrossing
cognitive skills development process and at the same time is great fun
for your child!
Toddlers love object-based art activities and are especially helpful
when you don’t want your child to spend all her time in front of the
TV. So roll up your sleeves and get down to getting involved with your
child and engage her in art activities.

7. Embark on a journey of growth together
Exploring art materials plays a critical role because only through
exploration toddlers can build knowledge of the objects in the world
around them. Activities centring around making art also helps young
children to make decisions and conduct self-evaluations.
As your toddler grows and develops, her art activities will move
beyond exploration through their senses and begin to involve the use
of symbols. Your child will use symbols to represent real objects,
events, and feelings in her artwork.

8. 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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