The document discusses the importance of arts education for children's development. It notes that engaging with arts like drawing, painting, and music teaches children creative and analytical skills while allowing for enhanced learning experiences. Several studies have found that arts education improves critical thinking and problem-solving skills in young children. It also helps develop motor skills and can translate musical knowledge into math skills. Studies show a direct correlation between arts education in childhood and greater academic achievement later in life.

1. CHILDREN AND SENSES
MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier
model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels
within a pyramid. From the bottom of the hierarchy upwards, the
needs are: physiological (food and clothing), safety (job security),
love and belonging needs (friendship), esteem, and self-
actualization.
Needs lower down in the hierarchy must be satisfied before
individuals can attend to needs higher up.

3. Engaging in the arts is undeniably an integral part of
children's development.
When children participate in different arts, like drawing,
painting, or playing instruments, they learn to think in
new and creative ways and make connections they
otherwise would not have made.
Arts education is an important component of any child’s
development because it teaches teamwork, analytic,
and creative skills.

4. In addition, exposure to art and the
chance to develop their own art provides
children with a more diversified
experience that can help them in the
classroom as well, allowing them for
more opportunities for an enhanced
learning experience.

5. In the classroom art education is a crucial
component for a child’s personal
development.
Several studies have concluded that art
education is very important at a young
age, because children are still developing
their critical thinking and problem solving
skills.

6. Students also have the opportunity to
fine-tune their motor skills through art.
The cognitive processes involved in
learning to draw accurately, choose the
right colors and shapes, and create
detailed work help children develop the
motor skills associated with these tasks.

7. In terms of musical arts, students are
able to use their knowledge of musical
notes and translate that into math skills.
Musical rhythms can provide a way for
students to learn fractions, counting, and
patterns in a way that traditional
classrooms cannot teach.

8. Studies have also shown that there is a
direct correlation between arts education
at a young age and academic
achievement later in life.

9. It is much easier for children to learn about the arts and
integrate their studies into their daily lives than it is for adults.
This is because of the way the brain develops.
The child’s brain is able to absorb more material and adjust
accordingly than the adult brain, which is less dynamic and
less able to accommodate for new information.
As a result, children who studied arts at a young age achieve
more academic success later in life than those who did not.

10. At each stage of development your child is learning in several areas at the same
time. A toddler is learning to walk (physical), learning colours (intellectual), is
uncomfortable with strangers (social), expressing feelings of independence
(emotional), and becoming aware of adult disapproval for misbehaviour (moral).
There are five areas of human development:
Physical development: the changes in size, shape, and physical maturity of the
body, including physical abilities and coordination.
Intellectual development: the learning and use of language; the ability to reason,
problem-solve, and organize ideas; it is related to the physical growth of the brain.
Social development: the process of gaining the knowledge and skills needed to
interact successfully with others.
Emotional development: feelings and emotional responses to events; changes in
understanding one's own feelings and appropriate forms of expressing them.