The Art of Play

The Benefits of Play Based and Art Education in Kindergarten

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Source: http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/ethicalinquiry/2010/august.html

Play-based and art-based education are beneficial to the young mind, which is already geared towards hands on learning and experimentation.  
Play-based learning enhances the following skills:

  • Impulse control
  • Delay of gratification
  • Taking turns
  • Negotiate Conflict
  • Empathy
  • Enhances a deeper connection with their world
  • Fosters inquiry and experimentation
  • Learning from peers
  • Respects the child as an individual


Art Education enhances the following skills:
  • Creative thinking
  • Critical thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Aesthetic sensitivity
  • Proper use of tools and techniques
  • Multiple solutions to a problem
  • Fosters inquiry and experimentation
  • Teaches children that solutions can have a non-verbal answer
  • Analytical thinking
  • Multiple solutions to problems
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Individual