Creative arts encompass activities like music, visual arts, movement, dance, and storytelling, engaging children's imagination and supporting their cognitive, language, social, emotional, and physical development. Art activities promote brain capacity, language skills, empathy, emotional processing, and fine motor skills. Engaging in creative activities helps children develop confidence, understand their emotions, and improve communication and social skills.

1. Creative Arts

2. Creative Arts
• Creative arts are activities that actively engage children's imagination
through music, visual arts, movement and dance, and drama and
storytelling.
• Creative arts engage children across all domains—
1. Cognitive
2. Language
3. Social
4. Emotional
5. Physical

3. 1. Cognitive Skills
• Research shows that art activities develop brain capacity in early
childhood.
• New research reveals that the arts may prime our neural
circuitry for a broad range of activities, boosting crucial
cognitive skills like
- Spoken language
- Written language
- Focus
- Self-control

4. 2. Language Skills
How Art can help children with Language Development?
• Talking about art while crafting with your child or
toddler not only teaches them nouns and verbs.
• It also helps them learn to describe colours, materials
and textures.
• Craft activities encourage the speech and language
development in young children.

5. 3. Social Skills
• By expressing themselves through art, children learn to embrace their
individuality and appreciate the individuality of others.
• Empathy Through Art - Children can learn to understand and
appreciate different perspectives. This can help them develop
empathy, which is a key component of social skills.
• Through art, individuals can express themselves, communicate their
thoughts and emotions, and gain a deeper understanding of others.
• Art offers a safe space for exploration, creativity, and collaboration,
making it an ideal tool for fostering social-emotional growth.

6. 4. Emotional Skills
• The arts can also help children process their emotions. For
example, if verbalization skills are limited (due to age or
ease) drawing can help children express their emotions. A
parent or teacher may ask their child or student to draw what
they look like when they are happy, angry or patient.
• Painting can also support an individual in developing coping
skills and learning how to self-soothe.
• Sensory experiences, like the touch, feel and fluidity of paint
allows the individual to discover, validate and express their inner
sensations.

7. 5. Physical Skills
• When child care providers offer art activities, they are
supporting children's large and small muscle development, as
well as their eye-hand coordination.
• Using crayons, markers, and paintbrushes helps children practice
the fine motor control they will need for writing later on.

8. Benefits of Creative Activities
1. Develop imagination and creativity.
2. Build confidence.
3. Understand and express emotions.
4. Learn about the world and their place in it.
5. Communicate thoughts, experiences or ideas.
6. Practise and improve social skills.

9. Group Work
In groups of four, prepare a news report on the following topics:
dance, drama, music, visual arts. Prepare slides for your reports
as well.