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What is The Purpose of Art for Young Children?

Art is important to a child's developmental process. By experimenting with art, young children can express their ideas and feelings, develop motor coordination skills and learn about different types of materials and textures.

Interaction With Art Materials
With early learners, it is important to concentrate on the process instead of the product. Children can learn about colors, feelings and textures by experimenting with art materials.

Develop Motor Coordination Skills
By interacting with art materials and creating their own works of art, children can develop hand-to-eye coordination and manual dexterity.

Express Emotion
Art helps early learners to express their needs, wants and feelings.

Developing Comprehension Skills
By looking at and creating works of art, children develop the idea of sequencing, which builds their comprehension skills.

Solving Problems
Children who are exposed to art-making activities develop higher-level thinking and problem-solving skills than children who do not have this exposure.

Tie Dye Paper Towels or Coffee Filters

 Creating a tie dyed art project is great for learning colors. Here are two ideas to create your colorful art work.


Tie Dye Paper Towels or Coffee Filters;


This will get a bit messy so make sure to protect your clothes and work space.  Dampen a paper towel and lay it flat on your work surface.  Using a straw or eye dropper, place a few drops of one color using *food coloring.

Repeat this with the next color overlapping just a bit with the first color.  If you used two primary colors (blue, yellow or red) you will create a new color when the two colors come together on the wet paper towel.

Keep repeating dropping food coloring on your paper towel until you have the tie dyed look you want.  Let this masterpiece dry and then pin it up on the fridge to show off your color activity.

*Alternative of Paints:
Paint Dots bottles
Washable Markers
Watercolors
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