art activities

Kids Painting Activities

Kids love to paint! The kids painting activities on The Artful Parent range from spin painting, marble rolling, body painting, finger painting, to painting with a variety of brushes and other materials and on a range of surfaces 

Creative Drawing Activities for Kids

We have lots of ideas, activities, and games for drawing with kids here on The Artful Parent, including observational drawing, drawing prompts, and creative drawing exercises and drawing games.

Collage Art Ideas for Kids

We have more than 50 collage art ideas for kids here on The Artful Parent, including including basic paper collage, contact paper collage, sticker collage, mixed media artwork, and 3-D collage

Clay and Play dough Ideas for Kids

Looking for 3 D art and sculpture ideas for kids? We have more than 25 for you here on The Artful Parent, including toothpick sculptures, building with cardboard, plus both wood sculptures and ice sculptures.

What are the Creative Arts?

But what is creativity? According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, creativity is defined as:

The use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work.

This then begs the question: what are the creative arts? In relation to children, the creative arts are activities that engage a child’s imagination and can include activities such as art, dance, drama, puppetry, and music. They stimulate and help children cultivate their abilities across virtually every domain, and they are open-ended activities, fostering flexibility of the mind. And most important of all, the creative arts emphasize the process, teaching kids in a world that is progressively more and more product-driven that the method by which you arrive at the destination is as or more significant than the destination itself

The Importance of Creative Arts in Early Childhood Education

       In relation to children, the creative arts are activities that engage a child's imagination and can include activities such as art, dance, drama, puppetry, and music.