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Different Types of Creative Art Forms for Children


Learning different types of creative art forms can help children in a lot of ways. Read on to learn more about some of the popular creative art forms.

Involving children in creative art is the way of helping them to develop fast and in a healthier way. They learn different types of skills in art. There are various creative art activities held in school and institutions for children to enhance the skills in children. To choose in which art form they should follow should be completely their decision which should be according to their likes and interest. Parents just need to guide them so that the kids could easily analyze their interest. Six year old can be the perfect age where a kid can decide and perform different art activities. Here are some types of common creative art in which kids prefer to participate.

Drawing as an Art

This is an art in which a child visualizes an image and tries to put it down on paper, or else he or she can simply see a picture and draw and then colour it. This gives them knowledge about different types of size and shapes simultaneously they also learn how these shapes can be used in drawing. They also get the knowledge about colours and how different colours can be made from using some basic colours.
Creative innovation can also be done to make this activity more interesting, like use of charcoal for drawing, creating 2D or 3D artworks. Select simple ideas to achieve creativity so that children can make independently which would give them courage, motivation and can do attitude. Gradually, they would be able to make artworks which would depict their thoughts too.

Music

Interest in music provides two types of art forms amongst which your child can choose from or can learn both the things simultaneously. The types of art forms which can be explored in the field of music are singing or playing a musical instrument. Music is an art which needs synchronization of various things in a rhythm. If your child decides to sing he or she should have a good voice otherwise they will have to be prepared for lot of hard work or else they can go for learning musical instrument such as guitar, violin, piano, flute or any other instrument that they love as there are wide ranges of instruments used in music. They will also have to learn to read music notations; initially they can go with reading simple music notations.

Dance

This is another form of art which can be mainly classified in two groups classical and western, and further they are classified in their vast numbers of subtypes. So selecting a proper dance form which suits your child and also has his or interest is another task for you. Every dance form is unique in its own way and has its own benefits and different style of performing it.
Every dance form will teach your child different skills like expressing themselves in the form of dance. Teach them how to change their speed according to the different dance beats. Art of dance also teaches them to express themselves with using only facial expressions.

Theatre

This is a very interactive type of art, in which lots of efforts and creativity is required. This type of art helps in complete development of a child in a shorter period of time. The children involved in this activity are more bold and smart. They know how to face stage and how to keep the audience entertaining. Generally, it is seen that the children involved in this activity are very active, have a lot of “can do” attitude and also their friends and family members love to spend time with them.
In short you can conclude that any creative activity or art can play an important role in the development of your kids.

Which are the popular forms of creative art forms that children can learn? What are the benefits of learning creative art forms? At what age can children start learning any of the creative art forms? Discuss here.



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