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Arts and Crafts Develop Thinking Skills (Cognitive Development)

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    Know how arts and crafts help children reach developmental goals. Eric Erickson, in Childhood and Society, wrote that the developmental goals of school-age children fall into four main categories: cognitive, emotional, social, and sensory-motor. In order to become healthy, happy, and productive teenagers, and later healthy, happy, and productive adults, children from five to 12 years old must have lots of experiences and repeated practice with tasks in each of these four areas. Arts and crafts help children experience and practice their skills in all four of these areas. How?

    Arts and Crafts Develop Thinking Skills (Cognitive Development) · Problem solving skills are exercised in experimenting with art supplies and observing cause and effect. · Decision making is constant and continuous in assembling and decorating art and craft projects. · Spatial relations and visual thinking skills are engaged and strengthened.

    Arts and Crafts Develop Feeling Skills (Emotional Development) · Open-ended art helps children communicate their real feelings and potentially have others understand them better. · Art materials provide sensory stimulation that can be fun, pleasurable and satisfactory. · In the event of a crisis in your community, open-ended art provides an outlet to reduce the stress of a trauma.
     
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