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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.

Papier-Mache Bracelet

What You Need:
  • Cardboard strip about 12" (30 cm) long and 1/2" (1.5 cm) to 2" (5 cm) wide
  • Wallpaper paste
  • Newspaper torn into small strips about 1/2" x 2" (1.5 cm x 5 cm)
  • Strips of thin white paper
  • Stapler
  • Supplies for decorating the bracelet: tempera paints, felt pens, or liquid starch and colored tissue paper
  • Scissors
  • Clear gloss enamel (optional)
What You Need To Do:
  1. Help your child measure a cardboard strip bracelet around her wrist. Make sure the bracelet is large enough to fit over her hand and allow a little extra space for the thickness added by the papier-mache.
  2. Remove the strip from your child's wrist, overlap the ends, and staple.
  3. Help your child dip a strip of newspaper into the wallpaper paste and wrap it around the bracelet. Repeat this step until the bracelet is covered with at least three layers of newspaper strips.
  4. Cover the bracelet with strips of thin white paper until the newspaper is completely covered and does not show through. The paper should adhere without extra paste, but feel free to add extra paste if necessary.
  5. Let the bracelet dry for several days. Try hanging the bracelet on a cardboard tube, clothes hanger, or clothesline for faster drying.
  6. When the bracelet is completely dry, help your child decorate the bracelet by painting it with tempera paint or drawing designs on it with felt pens. You can also cover the bracelet with liquid starch and pieces of colored tissue paper.
  7. Let the bracelet dry again. Once dry, you can coat the bracelet with clear gloss enamel for a shiny, protective finish (optional).
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