Benefits of learning art for children

5. Encourages Visual Analysis

Drawing can help improve a child’s visual analysis and help them understand concepts like distance, space, texture, and size. Drawing activities can help children get to grips with how objects relate to each other, which in turn, helps them understand more advanced concepts like depth and volume.

Visual analysis is an essential skill for everyday life, which can be learned from a young age through artistic pursuits.

Emily adds, ‘through patterns, you can teach children visual perceptual skills, building up their general awareness of the world around them. If you tell a story whilst they’re doing a drawing activity, you can take them on a magical journey through a jungle or an underwater palace. By combining drawing with story-telling in the Early Years, we’ve found that children’s attention span inadvertently increases.’

6. Develops Problem-Solving Skills

Connecting lines and joining dots in the pursuit of making a drawing requires a certain level of problem solving. In order for a child to consciously draw an object, they first need to visualise the shape and then work out the best way to reproduce it on paper. The problem-solving skills that children develop from drawing will also transfer over to other subjects like maths, where visual representations can often help in finding a solution.