ArtsAutosBooksBusinessEducationEntertainmentFamilyFashionFoodGamesGenderHealthHolidaysHomeHubPagesPersonal FinancePetsPoliticsReligionSportsTechnologyTravel

Kids Art Education Importance

Updated on October 22, 2011

The wise people used to say that the key purpose of education is to transform minds from empty to open ones.  Education, in kid’s mental growth, is a very important and vital ingredient. Studying mathematics, physics, computers, biology, chemistry and other ‘working’ subjects, we think, are best to make a kid educated. We always consider the technical side of education and ignored the creative part of it.

What Is Arts Education? 

Arts education is educating child about drawing, sketching, coloring, painting, crafts and other works related to these. Education related to performing arts, drama, music, dance and theatre also comes under the heading of arts education. Though many do not consider it important but Arts education plays an exceptionally essential, extremely significant and vital role in improving mental approach and character building.

Importance Of Arts Education for Kids

Arts education for kids is very important. It helps then to be complete human beings. It teaches creativity, patience, imaginations and acceptance of other’s work.

Most of the parents, while selecting educational set of courses for their kid, give priority to mathematics and sciences and consider arts as just an extra option. But the fact is that arts education helps kids in visualizing things more vividly. This helps in understanding mathematical and scientifically concepts.   

Arts Education and Imaginations

Arts education helps students in imagining things. When a kid is asked to draw a carrot or color a pigeon the kid has to make an image of carrot of pigeon or anything is asked to draw or color in his mind. Imaginations boost their mental ability to understand concepts more clearly. As experts use to say that if a kid could imagine any concept it correctly then he would not forget it after class.

Arts Education And Creativity

Creativity is the basic need of every subject. To study mathematics you have to be creative formulas and numbers. To study sciences one has to be creative with chemicals. To study physics one has to creative with laws and assumptions.

All these subjects need creativity but the subject that makes kids creative is Arts. Arts teach kids to creative with colors and paints. Arts teach students to be creative with lines and shapes. It teaches to creatively cut paper into different shapes.

Creativity is needed everywhere, in every subject. But arts education is the only subject which teaches how to be creative.

Arts Education and Brain Activity

It has been proved that arts education helps to keep brain active. If kids would be introduce to drawing, music, dance and drama in early stages it would help the kids in keeping their brain active by means of imagining things, making new contrasts and combinations and composing new tunes. 

Arts Education and Clarity of Thoughts

Arts education helps kids to think clearly on things they are taught. It helps more in understanding assumptions and concepts. Though people give priority to mathematics and sciences, but the fact is that arts education helps more make a kid logical and provides clarity in thoughts by giving visual image for every concept.

Arts Education and Inventions

Arts education develops and nurtures the creativity, creativity is responsible for every new invention. Arts education helps kids in inventing new ideas and doing old things with new methods. Imaginations are the very first from of every inventions and arts education aids brain abilities to turn imaginations into practical inventions.

Arts Education and Self-Discipline

Arts education does not help in improving brain powers but it also helps in Arts taught patience and self-discipline. By giving some safe meanings of expressions arts taught self-discipline. It is important for kid to learn safe and disciplined ways of expressions, and arts education helps in this most. It gives control to extreme emotions and let them know about save ways of expression. It improves strength of will.

Arts Education and Self-Esteem

Arts Education improves self-esteems and boost confidence in kids. Arts education gives confidence to kids to express their selves in a better manner and expression of own self boosts confidence in kids. This confidence would help them rest of their studies and life. Arts education helps a lot in giving confidence to kids.

ALWAYS REMEMBER: Whenever your kid does some artistic work, do courage him and courage him whole heartedly.

working

This website uses cookies

As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.

For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy

Show Details
Necessary
HubPages Device IDThis is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons.
LoginThis is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service.
Google RecaptchaThis is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy)
AkismetThis is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Traffic PixelThis is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized.
Amazon Web ServicesThis is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy)
CloudflareThis is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy)
Google Hosted LibrariesJavascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy)
Features
Google Custom SearchThis is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy)
Google MapsSome articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
Google ChartsThis is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy)
Google AdSense Host APIThis service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Google YouTubeSome articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
VimeoSome articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
PaypalThis is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook LoginYou can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
MavenThis supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy)
Marketing
Google AdSenseThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Google DoubleClickGoogle provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Index ExchangeThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
SovrnThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook AdsThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Unified Ad MarketplaceThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
AppNexusThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
OpenxThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Rubicon ProjectThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
TripleLiftThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Say MediaWe partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy)
Remarketing PixelsWe may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites.
Conversion Tracking PixelsWe may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service.
Statistics
Author Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy)
ComscoreComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Tracking PixelSome articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy)
ClickscoThis is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy)