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The importance of art in education of children:

Art is considered one of the most natural and spontaneous forms of child expression. Children can communicate their thoughts, experiences, and feelings with art. What appeals to children is not only the final product created but also the process and the pleasure of expressing themselves through art.

The subjects that are generally taught in schools are predominantly informative and tend to stimulate the left hemisphere of the brain more than the right. Art, on the other hand, usually associated with the right hemisphere, is a formative discipline that helps the child to be creative, have self-esteem, and express emotions. Stimulation of both sides of the brain leads to complete integral child educational development.

The first artistic expressions of children:

Doodles

Doodling is an important activity for intellectual development since it begins with a sensory-motor experience and through experimentation progresses by stages of symbolic and abstract thought to a drawing. Simple representations become complex with details that more accurately represent the subject. Doodles and drawings are often used by psychologists to assess a child´s mental state and emotional well-being.

Play Dough

Direct contact with this modeling compound produces many positive reactions in children. It allows them to release emotions. It promotes psychomotor coordination, and promotes self-expression at a didactic level while having fun.

When dividing the malleable material into pieces, students learn the concepts of size and quantity. Creating shapes, modifying their volume, and organizing by color is a satisfying experience for all children.

Painting with tempera

The tempera method of painting stimulates a tactile response by experimenting with paint sliding through a child’s fingers and hands. The perceptive and sensory experience allows them to learn about primary, secondary, tertiary, and complementary colors. Children are permitted to mix colors, discover how orange, green, and purple are made, and how to darken or lighten a color.

The use of tempera helps develop hand coordination skills for graphic expression and prepares the child for the writing process. It is an excellent therapeutic resource to reduce inhibitions and encourages childish expression.