Arts and Crafts ---Emotional Development--Social Development

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.

Arts and Crafts Develop Relating Skills (Social Development)
·        Art materials are shared in an environment that facilitates social interaction.
·        The non-competitive and cooperative environment of the art center helps children practice social skills.
·        Shy or less verbal children often participate more comfortably with others when involved in art activities.