Developing Children’s Creativity Through the Art of Crafts

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220602.007How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Developing Early Childhood; Creativity; Craft; Arts

Abstract

Art is a process of providing an individual the opportunity to develop creativity. Art in early childhood education is a medium for knowing and understanding of the world around. Through art children have full opportunities to be actively involved by exploring and expressing their understanding in the fun ways. Children’s freedom in expression is the main key that supports the growth of creativity. Therefore, teachers and parents should provide the freedom of expression and let children produce their works freely according to their ideas and creating innovation. Craft art is part of art activities that stimulate child creativity. Craft art is an activity that produces works of art using hands through various art media. In this craft media, children can identify, build connect their knowledge, interests and experiences. Craft art can provide a very broad opportunity for children to experiment and produce a new thing using all of their senses. Craft art can have positive influences on child’s aspects of development including self-concept development, collaborative skills, cultural identity and appreciation. The creation of children make in the craft art is a reflection of ideas, imagination, critical thinking skills, problem solving, knowledge and experience

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Farida Mayar
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/20
TI  - Developing Children’s Creativity Through the Art of Crafts
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Early Childhood Education (ICECE-6 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 30
EP  - 33
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220602.007
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220602.007
ID  - Mayar2022
ER  -