What are the benefits of art education for children's growth?

Art education is an important part of children's all-round development

Early childhood is the period when people's artistic talents begin to show, which has a multiplier effect on children's art education. Through art education, children's ability to feel, appreciate, evaluate and create natural beauty, social life beauty and artistic beauty is improved, and healthy aesthetic interest and keen aesthetic perception ability are cultivated. Enriching emotions, making children love life, art and all beautiful things since childhood, which occupies a very important position in children's education, is an indispensable content and an important means and way for children's all-round development.

Art education is an emotional education to meet children's aesthetic and emotional needs

Children are active and have strong discovery, and art activities provide children with an opportunity for emotional communication and satisfaction. Children freely express their views, express their inner feelings and feel the joy of communicating with others through art with these external symbols, such as singing, dancing, playing the piano and performing, so as to obtain a kind of spiritual satisfaction and a sense of pleasure arising from self-affirmation.

artistic creation is the operation of cultivating children's hand, eyes and brain to coordinate activities

zankov, a Soviet educator, believes that the society needs people who can use both hands and brains, that is, the so-called "whole brain thinking". Artistic creation is a process of using hands, eyes and brains, which requires children to perceive aesthetic objects with multiple senses, imagine, understand and process aesthetic images with brains, express their aesthetic feelings with language, and express their aesthetic feelings, thoughts and feelings, and what they see and hear with tools and materials.

Art education is conducive to cultivating children's sound personality

Children's different personalities can also be reflected from their liking for various art training contents. For example, children who like lively rhythm have more extroverted elements, while children who like to paint quietly have more introverted tendencies. Teachers can discover and understand each child's unique personality in the process of teaching, and influence and promote the formation of their healthy personality through art education. The creative process and works can make children feel satisfied, which is an important source of personal accomplishment, and artistic creation plays an important role in forming children's self-awareness and good moral quality.

Art education is helpful to the development of children's brain potential

In childhood, the brain is developing. At this time, it is necessary to stimulate intelligence with novel and vivid information, and to prevent and avoid fatigue. Children's art, dance, music and other artistic creations have both advantages. Appropriate participation of children in artistic creation activities will promote the sound development of their brains. The function of art education is holistic, and the cultivated spatial perception ability and intuitive thinking ability are not only necessary for intelligent and sound people, but also promote the left brain language function. Therefore, the special significance of art education is that it is conducive to the all-round development of brain potential, not only to children learning other disciplines, but also to adapting to future work and life.