Expressive Art - Development of Children

Running head: EXPRESSIVE ART - DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN
EXPRESSIVE ART - DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN
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EXPRESSIVE ART - DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN
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It is believed that art washes away the dirt from the soul, and there is an artist in every
child. I, being a teacher of a kindergarten, always try to introduce expressive art as a medium
for children’s learning. Expressive Art is the visionary connection and interaction between all
usual art forms.
Children do not have language proficiency in expressing their feelings, but they do
have a voice. Expressive art helps in exciting a child’s visions and guide them to decide how
they should employ their senses in a proper way. Expressive arts consist of actions such as
dancing, drama, creative writing, drawing, writing poetry, sculpting, making music and
photography. Expressive arts therapy can help them in a situation where it is not possible
for the children to describe their anger or bad feelings in words ( Forrest-Bank et al., 2016).
By putting their emotions in drawing, dance and poem, they can express it and make
others understand it. According to researchers, the expressive arts also nurture the cognitive
capacity development for the children.
Participating in imaginative play activates the use of kids’ imagination power, As per
the view of Lev Vygotsky, imaginative play allows kids to learn exciting things and make
them open to a new world of learning (Vygotsky, 2016). In this process, a teacher will
provide students with extra care and guidance while the student is trying to learn something
new with the other children of the same age (Zavershneva & van der Veer, 2018). Children’s
artistic natures can be developed in indoor play space with the support of paper, paints and
watercolours (Bento & Dias, 2017). I always help children in choosing the colours and
crayons for their drawing and keep a note of colours they are choosing to paint them and try
to understand their creativity. Singing and dancing, listening to music, playing instruments,
helps in the development of the creative mind. Musical rhythms increase the four-
dimensional reasoning capacity in the children. Rhymes and recitations help in the growth of
memory and language proficiency.