Creative arts in children depends on various factors such as age, opportunity, learning disabilities as well as praise from their instructors. Children in different stages of their early childhood are exposed to varying types of creative arts to engage in depending on their age. For instance, the infants are too young for the age that can be given play items to make a collage. Conversely, the toddlers can be engaged in collage, making using big and colorful play items and an extensive play area. Also, the preschoolers and the school-going children can participate in assemblage to make collage since they fall in the rightful age to experiment collage as a type of creative arts suitable for them.
Examine and reflect on developmentally appropriate visual arts experiences that support children’s emerging interests, skills, and abilities.
Visual arts such as using plant seeds to make a pattern may prompt the children to plant the seeds to experience real life and know how the real-world looks like. This way, the children may develop interests in farming and perfect their skills and abilities via learning how to farm. The visual arts experience mentioned above may promote the emerging interests of a child that may want to do farming in the future. Additionally, for children with learning disabilities or physical disabilities, the teaching instructor ought to use appropriate visual arts experiences to help them develop their interests, skills and abilities beyond their disabilities. For instance, a teaching instructor may use collage to explain a learning experience to a deaf child that cannot speak. Then, the instructor should encourage the deaf child to express their interests via visual arts such as drawing or painting. The child may then have emerging interests in the new visual arts, hence perfect their skills and abilities.