Today – Importance of Arts and Crafts for Children
Arts and crafts refer to the skill of creating things using your hands. Some examples include painting, colouring with crayons, making miniature statues from clay and designing handmade birthday cards.
Importance of Arts and Crafts for Children
These are craft activities that can improve your child’s artistic abilities. Below we discuss 7 reasons why arts and crafts are important for your child.
Improved Coordination and Motor Skills
Arts and crafts require children to manipulate art materials using their hands. Simple activities such as using scissors can help enhance your child’s ability to perform tasks like tying their shoes. When children create art by hand, they develop their fine motor skills.
Communication
Doing arts and crafts involves having a conversation about crafts with your child. In the process, they can also pick up some vocabulary from the conversation. This enhances their language and communication skills.
Critical thinking and Decision Making
When creating crafts, one makes choices based on what they want. A child creating a truck gets to choose the truck’s colour and size. After seeing the final product, they have a choice of creating something different next time.
When purchasing materials from craft stores, they have an opportunity to pick what they want and require. This improves their critical thinking and decision making skills.
Self-esteem
When a child is able to create their own crafts, their self-esteem gets a boost. They are able to understand that one can make mistakes and turn them into new ideas. This skill can be useful in life because there are many challenges to face and a high self-esteem will come in handy.
Socialising
Children get to interact with their parents or other children when making crafts. During this process, they can share ideas about making crafts. Such interactions enable your child to be more open-minded. They also get an opportunity to make new friends and develop their social skills.
Arithmetic development
To master math, you require clear thinking and problem-solving skills. Children count beads and use different shapes when doing arts and crafts. As a result, they advance their mathematical skills. This prepares them for school as they will count and understand different shapes better.
Creativity
Creativity is important in a child’s life. By taking part in engaging activities such as arts and crafts, a child’s creativity improves. Art and craft materials help children draw ideas from their imagination and improve their artistic abilities.
Arts and crafts made from basic homemade goods help to develop essential developments of children. You can encourage your child to engage in this by buying them craft materials. These materials enhance the learning experience and development of your child.
Importance of Arts and Crafts for Children is a guest post from Cora Harrison – you might also like to take a look on my post on things kids can do with sticks
This post was featured by Twinkl in their Creativity in Children blog .
