The short answer to this question is Yes! Combining art activities with teaching helps strengthen children's memory and concentration. Memory and concentration skills are essential as children are learning to read and write. In this way, supporting these skills through art is a good way to make teaching fun and provide the freedom for children to express themselves creatively. Art also encourages younger children to exercise their motor skills as they are practicing the use of crayons, brushes, and how to use colored pencils. Thus, art activities can be turned into pre-writing practices. To include art activities you can: Decorate the letters of the Alphabet Prepare different materials such as: glitter, watercolors, pipe cleaners, pompoms, pasta, natural materials (leaves, flowers, tree branches, stones). Then, make cards with different letters of the alphabet and let your child or student decorate the outline of the letter with the different materials. For natural...
Jackie Amaya - Garcia
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Nov 05, 2021