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Thesis Statement: Engaging in art affects child’s development by stimulating the child’s imagination and creativity and refining his or her cognitive skills.
I. Engaging in art affects child development by stimulating child’s imagination and creativity.
A. Engaging in art affects child development by generating ideas and creating illustrations.
B. Engaging in art affects child development by molding child’s creative thinking.
1. A child becomes resourceful.
2. A child becomes inventive.
II. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s cognitive skills.
A. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s hand-eye coordination.
B. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s memory.
C. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s attention skills.
D. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s visual capabilities.
1. A child develops visual proportion.
2. A child learns to adjust and to balance his artwork.
E. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s decision-making.
1. Every child has different organization in shapes and colors he puts in his artwork.
2. Child has responsibilities on what materials he used, what ideas he conveyed and how effective his art was.
The Effects of Art to Child Development
Erica Jiel Yuzon
University of the Philippines Diliman Extension Program in Pampanga
Communication II
Professor Chynthia Sanguyu
October 21, 2012
Abstract
Art gives children an opportunity to create, to express and to evaluate their ideas and thoughts. As what Donald Woods Winnicott wrote in his book Playing and Reality, an individual discovers
Thesis Statement: Engaging in art affects child’s development by stimulating the child’s imagination and creativity and refining his or her cognitive skills.
I. Engaging in art affects child development by stimulating child’s imagination and creativity.
A. Engaging in art affects child development by generating ideas and creating illustrations.
B. Engaging in art affects child development by molding child’s creative thinking.
1. A child becomes resourceful.
2. A child becomes inventive.
II. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s cognitive skills.
A. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s hand-eye coordination.
B. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s memory.
C. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s attention skills.
D. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s visual capabilities.
1. A child develops visual proportion.
2. A child learns to adjust and to balance his artwork.
E. Engaging in art affects child development by refining child’s decision-making.
1. Every child has different organization in shapes and colors he puts in his artwork.
2. Child has responsibilities on what materials he used, what ideas he conveyed and how effective his art was.
The Effects of Art to Child Development
Erica Jiel Yuzon
University of the Philippines Diliman Extension Program in Pampanga
Communication II
Professor Chynthia Sanguyu
October 21, 2012
Abstract
Art gives children an opportunity to create, to express and to evaluate their ideas and thoughts. As what Donald Woods Winnicott wrote in his book Playing and Reality, an individual discovers
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