Children are drawn towards expressing themselves better at an early stage of their growing years, when they are given the opportunity to drawing doodles. Most children crave to draw things out of their 
imagination which can be verified as creative shapes not necessarily with any meaning – but if one asks them they would give it a common name that they had heard or seen, making an attempt to draw it to the best of their ability. Among the reasons why art in education is so important for kids, are that it has been proven that art can improve academic performance besides developing a child’s creativity. The skills they learn spill over into their academic achievements later on in life, leading 
towards decision making as adults an easier task. There is no particular age to start sending your child to an art class but it is best that one starts with preschoolers by the age of 3 to 4 and if they are already schooling, from 5 to 6 years, and others in the range of 7 years and above. The benefits that children gain by attending art classes are many. Kids learning to work with others, especially in an art class, learn to collaborate. When they are placed in group activities, they learn to work together towards achieving a common goal. In short, they learn to become team players, and such children would develop into adults who can work in harmony with others.
Young art students learn to become creative thinkers. They offer the world their unique points of view and interpretations of the world around them. They are fearless when it comes to expressing themselves through their artwork, because it is a safe place for them.
Their open-mindedness allows them to learn to improve all areas of their life through trial and error. They tend to grow into open-minded adults who learn how to solve problems. One can find more than one reason why growing children, or adults for that matter, need to enrol in an art class. As with children they only get to experience childhood for a short period of time so that parents should let them express their creativity and the joy of childhood. As for growing adults it is something they can fall back on, especially when it comes to the many emotional situations that young adults face, sometimes on a day to day basis – it helps one to take one’s mind away from a persisting problem and look at it from a different perspective later – when they had expressed themselves through another medium closer to their heart.
Art classes for both children and adults will be held on separate days of the week at The Sapumal Foundation, 32/4, Barnes Place, Colombo 7. Please call 0774273781 for more details.
- PAB