Benefits of Art and Craft Workshops in Child Development

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Benefits of Art and Craft Workshops in Child
Development
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Spend quality time together

Art and craft workshops are a great way to spend
quality time with family as children tend to
express and share their ideas with them freely,
actively seeking their help. As the frequency of
these interactions multiplies, it strengthens the
bond between children and their parents and
caregivers. As a bonus, parents also end up
creating a repository of art and craft that helps
bring back fond memories of their children
growing up. In life knowing how is just as
important as knowing why. Art and craft
introduce children to a range of intellectual and
practical skills. Helping young become lifelong
learners by exposing them to frequent
opportunities to think out of the box and develop
confidence in other subjects and pick up life
skills.
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The benefits of art and craft in early childhood
play a crucial role as these benefits will be at
the centre of science, technology, engineering
and mathematics (STEAM). They also provide an
introduction to potentially lucrative careers in
the visual arts, digital and design and new media
industries, sectors that contribute significantly
to the economy and reputation of a country on the
competitive international world-class platform.
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Boost cognitive skills

Benefits of arts and crafts include helping
improve cognitive development in children by
sparking their creativity and imagination. By
providing your child with different materials to
work with, you will be giving her an opportunity
to let her imagination run wild and to start
building those all-important creative thinking
skills for later use in life. Studies confirm
that a child who is exposed to the arts acquires
a special ability to think creatively, be
original, discover, innovate, and create
intellectual property key attributes for
individual success and social prosperity in the
twenty-first century. Art is not just art, it is
communication, inspiration, point of view, and a
bridge that links us all up. Chung Kei Ting in
Hong Kong Source
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Improve self-expression self-esteem


Most people think of art as something children do
just for fun. However, art plays a very important
role in a childs emotional development. Through
art, children learn how to express their
emotions, cope with stress, and interact with
other people in a healthy manner. Arts and crafts
workshops help children find new ways to express
themselves in new ways and build on their
self-esteem and self-worth. Art is an extremely
valuable activity for children of all ages as it
helps develop a core sense of self-esteem vital
for every child.
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Spark creativity imagination

Creativity and imagination are two skills that
arts and crafts workshops help manifest in
children. By giving them the opportunity to be
creative and use their imaginations, arts and
crafts can help foster a love of creativity that
will last a lifetime, as well as help them
generate new ideas and find new solutions in all
aspects of life.
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Teach problem-solving skills

Arts and crafts workshops help children learn how
to come up with solutions, as the projects they
work on lead them to think outside the box and
come up with new ways of completing a task.
Children learn how to brainstorm, consider all
possible solutions, and create an action plan.
These skills teach children how to problem solve
effectively, an important skill for success in
both life and at work.
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Help practise mindfulness

Art and craft workshops help children practise
mindfulness, as they show how a child can bring
her attention to the present moment. Practising
mindfulness helps children become more aware of
their thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. It
also helps them learn how to control their
reactions to stress and emotions. This is also
why art and craft is important in early years
When children learn to focus their attention on
the present moment, they become less impulsive
and more aware of their own feelings, be able to
lower stress and minimise anxiety levels.
Teaching a child to be mindful by showing her
deep breathing techniques helps them relax and
focus. Deep breathing resets the nervous system.
Mindful awareness of breathing helps to support
your childs mental health and minimises negative
self-talk.
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Encourage teamwork socialisation

Art and craft workshops encourage interactions,
teamwork and socialisation in children as this
requires children to work together and find
common ground to complete a task. This helps
children learn how to cooperate and get along
with others, as well as make new
friends. Teamwork and socialisation skills are
vital as they help children form lasting
relationships and allow them to be successful in
both their personal and professional life.
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Learn flexibility

Flexibility, is among the first important life
skills children pick up from art and craft
workshops. This is because children begin to see
the need to come up with new solutions when
things dont go as planned. This will help them
in other areas of their lives as unexpected
situations will no longer throw them off balance.
Instead, they will learn to pick themselves up,
adapt quickly to changing situations, and develop
the ability to expect the unexpected.
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Fun Art Craft activities for children

As a childs brain is constantly learning and
growing, it is important to provide your child
with a wide range of art and craft supplies that
can stimulate her interest and keep her engaged.
The more diverse the range of art materials you
source, the easier it will become to create more
opportunities to learn and grow. Arts and craft
workshops are helpful in fostering the
development of specific motor, cognitive,
linguistic, and pre-academic skills. They also
allow for interpersonal exchanges that are vital
for brain development, lifelong learning, and
social-emotional competence. Art and craft
activities for children allow them to be
creative, think outside the box, and solve
problems.
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Fun Art Craft activities for children

Creating a worry doll
A worry doll is a small toy you can help your
child create so that she can then pass all her
worries to the doll. Psychologically, a doll
becomes a useful device to help children become
more aware and mindful of their emotions,
feelings and worries. These dolls are easy to
make, all you need is toothpicks or pipe
cleaners, spools of knitting wool and colourful
twine to make tiny worry dolls. Involve your
child by talking about worry dolls and how they
might be useful to her.
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Fun Art Craft activities for children
Help your child gather all of the materials you
need to make the worry doll. Once she has
collected everything she needs, show her how to
make one. Let your child decide how many worry
dolls she wants to make. While she is engaged in
making the first one, give your child the
background as to why she is making one for
herself. Explain to your child that everyone has
worries and it will be OK to tell you about them,
or in your absence, share them with her worry
doll. Show her how she can do this effectively.
Ask your child to focus on her breathing and
spend a few minutes talking to the doll about her
worries. Transferring them to her doll and asking
her to take care of them. She can then put away
her dolls until she needs them doll again.
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Fun Art Craft activities for children

Painting Drawing Painting, doodling and
drawing are activities that provide a wealth of
development benefits for children. They make
children creative, help them explore their
imagination, and improve their dexterity and
coordination, all at the same time. Plus, it is
not expensive. All that you would need is a piece
of paper and some crayons or paint. Another big
benefit art and craft activities bring to young
children are helping them focus on fine motor
skills as they begin experimenting with a variety
of fabrics, materials, colours and things of
different shapes and sizes.
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Fun Art Craft activities for children

As children learn to handle a pair of scissors
safely, cut and paste, hold crayons or anything
else, they are actually strengthening their
muscles and improving dexterity and learning to
coordinate their eyes and hands. It is a fun,
absorbing, colourful, and liberating experience.
Little wonder then, why children enjoy art and
craft workshops so much.
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Fun Art Craft activities for children

Using nature to nurture It is important for
children to initiate and develop activities for
themselves. They must have opportunities to
revisit and practise their physical skills in
ways meaningful to them to build confidence and
independence. For instance, it is very important
for children to learn about nature. For instance,
creating a nature collage consisting of leaves,
flowers, and twigs and use naturally occurring
material that they take a fancy to. Hand painting
rocks and tiles, using wooden sticks to build
houses, cutting leaves dipping them in paint and
using it to print patterns on a cloth or paper
among many others
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Fun Art Craft activities for children

The best learning is when a child is relaxed,
absorbed in her surroundings collecting things
she would need to make a nature collage. Having
so much fun while playing, she doesnt even
realise that shes picking up new skills. Thats
the real magic of the art and craft workshops.
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Fun Art Craft activities for children
Children love making masks of their favourite
animals and superheroes. My childs favourite
animal is the tiger and it was time to create a
mask for her to wear to a birthday party. First,
we got hold of a large piece of cardboard and as
my child was too young to work with a pair of
scissors, I helped her cut the board into the
shape of a tigers face and ears. Made sure this
would cover her face snugly and used an elastic
band to hold it in place. Then we began to
colour the board with bright yellow as a
background first. Drew four long outlines of
stripes on either sides of the tigers nose in
pencil and asked my child to fill in the outline
with black. Finally, we used white paint to
complete the jaws and mouth. The birthday
facemask would be ready for the party once the
paint dried.
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Fun Art Craft activities for children
Discovering the magic of colours When your
child begins to experiment with colours, she in
effect is practising science thinking skills such
as cause and effect, learning to predict what can
happen, and comparing the results. Introduce
blue, red, and yellow as the primary colours.
To teach colour matching, help your child combine
paints in different colours (mixing red and blue
to make purple paint). While taking her through
the steps of mixing colours, you will be
introducing new words and contexts, enhancing
your childs communication and linguistic skills.

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Conclusion


Process Art learning experiences inspire toddlers
and young children to think different, be
innovative, and devise ways to learn about
interesting things found in the real world.
Changing the way a child discovers and imagines.
Igniting her mind to think, play and learn like
never before. If you like to enrol your child in
drawing classes for kids or participate in
cognitive learning activities, give Abrakadoodle
a call. Or better still, make an appointment with
the head of a centre near you. Get hands-on
exposure to an experience that will make you see
art in a way that adds value to your childs
life.
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