Drawing
Benefits of Drawing
Motor skills :
Many of the motions involved in making art. Such as holding a paintbrush or scribbling with a crayon, are essentials to the growth of find motor skills in young children. According to the national institute of health.
Developmental milestones around age three should including drawing a circle and beginning to us safety scissors. Around age four, children may be able to draw a square and begin cutting straight lines with scissors. Many preschool programs emphasize the use of scissors because it develops the dexterity children will need for writing.
Language development:
For young children making art or just talking about it provides opportunities to learn words for colures, shapes and action when toddlers are as a young as a year old parents can do simple activates Such as crumpling up paper and calling it a ball a ball by elementary school, students can use descriptive words to discuss their own creation or to talk about what feelings are elicited when they see different styles of artwork.
Decision making:
According to report by American for the arts art education strengthens problem solving and critical thinking skills .The experience of making decision and choice in the course of creating art carries over into other part of life .If they are exploring or thinking and experimenting and trying new ideas then creativity has a chance to blossom, says Maryann kohl an arts educator and author of numerous books about children art education.
Visual learning:
Drawing sculpting and clay with threading beads on a string all develop visual spatial skills, which are more important than ever even toddlers know how to operate a smart phone or tablet, which means that even before they can read, kids are taking in visual information .This information consists of cues that we get from pictures or three dimensional objects from digital media, books and television.