Kid and Art : DEVELOP ART AND CREATIVITY IN EARLY CHILDREN AGE

Creativity is a familiar phrase in everyday life, especially for preschoolers who are always trying to create everything according to their imagination. Creativity of children in early childhood education programs is displayed in various forms, either in the form of pictures that he likes, tells stories, plays a role or displays various movements related to his motor activities.

There are various reasons why creativity is important to be raised, nurtured and developed in children. First, by creating children can manifest itself. Self-realization is one of human need. Second, with the child always thinking creatively allows the child to solve a problem. And the child can express his mind without any limitations. And can give birth to a new idea. Third, by busying yourself creatively will give satisfaction to the child. This is because the level of child satisfaction affects the child's emotional social development. Fourth, with creativity allows humans to improve their quality.

The development of children's creativity is found in all basic skill areas, covering the areas of language development, cognitive, and motor physics. And that is not less important is the development of child creativity in the field of developing basic art skills. In the development of creativity and basic of capability development of art there are various activities that can be done, both in the field of dance, art, and music art.

To encourage children's creativity in the arts can be given through the following activities:

1. Drawing

Drawing is a way that children can express what they think into an image. Drawing aims to enable children to:

1. Developing expression through image media.

2. Developing imagination, fantasies and creations.

3. Train your hand / finger muscles, coordinate muscles and eyes.

4. Fosters aesthetic feelings, train observations.

5. Fostering the potential of drawing.

In this case the teacher should pay attention to the child's sitting position and the way the child holds the stationery. And not too much to give a lot of clues and examples, or holding the child's hand and move pencil according to the will of the teacher.

For the implementation, drawing can be done by free drawing and drawing by theme.

2. Paint with a brush

Painting with a brush is not much different from drawing. This activity aims to:

1. Develop expression through painting media.

2. Developing imagination, fantasies and creations.

3. Train your hand / finger muscles, coordinate muscles and eyes.

4. Fosters aesthetic feelings, train observations.

5. Fostering the potential of drawing.

6. Practice the ability to combine colors.

In this activity children can explore the color. And can create an abstract work of brush strokes inscribed in the drawing paper. Although the results may be meaningless to adults but to them the painting has a meaning. Before doing this activity the teacher should remind the child to wear apron, so that when painting does not dirty clothes.

3. Finger Painting (Finger Painting)

Finger painting is another way of painting in addition to using a brush. Painting with the fingers will be more fun for the child because the child can form a painting according to his wishes by using his fingers and hands.

This activity aims to:

1. Develop expression through painting media with finger and hand movement.

2. Fostering feelings for hand gestures.

3. Fostering the feeling of beauty.

In this case should be used materials that are not harmful to children. The material may consist of flour and food coloring so as painting with fingers do not disturb the child's health.

4. Stamping

The stamped activity aims to:

1. Developing expression through image media.

2. Fostering feelings for hand gestures.

3. Fostering the feeling of beauty.

4. Train thoroughness and tidiness.

In learning creations print / stamp teachers can use materials from the surrounding environment that has a good artistic pattern, such as bananas, starfruit or ornamental plants around which have a pattern when printed. And the teacher should give the child the freedom to choose the color they want.

5. Folding

Folding is a fun activity for children because children can make different forms of animals from paper. This activity aims to:

1. Train concentration and child memory.

2. Train observation, cultivate thoroughness, patience and tidiness.

The fold shape should be adapted to the child's development. It's like folding into an animal shape. It is better to do activities for specific purposes in group work. For example, folds to decorate the room.

6. Cutting, Tearing and Taping

This activity aims to:

1. Developing expression through creative media.

2. Train the hand / finger muscles, muscle coordination, eye and hand skills.

To further develop the creativity of children should all activities that include cutting, tearing and gluing done by the child himself.

7. Arrange

Arrange aims to develop expression through arranging media, the arrangement activity will be more meaningful for the child if done with a specific purpose, such as arrange necklaces, bracelets or other decorative tools.

8. Play with percussion tool

Playing with percussion aims to develop self-expression through percussion tools, develop a sense of tone, recognize rhythm and get to know the bar. In this case there are 2 ways of performing play activities with percussion tool that is:

1. Free exercise, where children are free to explore sounds the tools in their own way.

2. Guided practice, which begins by introducing the names of the percussion instruments, how to use and sound them and last play them in turns.

9. Expression of motion according to rhythm

This activity aims to develop self-expression between music and movement, develop a sense of beauty, develop imagination and initiative.

Of the various activities are many functions that are obtained in every activity of Creativity development, one of them is the function of creativity development towards aesthetic development. In addition to the creative activities of expression, children should be familiarized and trained to live a variety of beauty. Thus, the child will always absorb the beautiful influence that is heard, seen and lived. This means that the aesthetic feelings or feelings of the child's beauty will be nurtured and can be developed. At the end of the day the child can acquire the skills to feel, differentiate, appreciate the beauty that will lead to and influence the character of the child.

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