Summarize how the visual arts help children develop physical, social, emotional, language, cognitive, and visual perception skills

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Through the visual arts children will develop:

physically, by using the large and small muscles of the arm and hand and eye-hand coordination to handle the different art media (bodily-kinesthetic)
socially, by working alongside other children and sharing art materials (interpersonal) emotionally, by learning to enjoy the act of creating visual art and by developing self- confidence in their ability to control a part of their environment and handle challenging tools and materials safely (intrapersonal)
language skills, by learning a vocabulary of visual arts words and by learning how to communicate about their artwork and the work of others, orally, with graphic symbols, and, at the primary level, through writing (linguistic)
cognitively, by seeing that their creative actions and decisions can cause the effect of producing a visual image and by developing the ability to compare and evaluate their own work and the work of others (logical-mathematical)
visual perception skills, by exploring new ways to make graphic symbols in two- and three-dimensional space, and by responding to the visual effects they have created (spatial)