{"id":161,"date":"2022-05-16T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:45:31","slug":"fun-art-activities-for-your-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/fun-art-activities-for-your-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Art Activities for Your Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Creativity and Children:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Creativity is an innate ability of human beings to create ideas in our imagination and convert it into something tangible and\/or useful in our day-to-day activities. It is the primary source of path-breaking innovations when coupled with applied knowledge as adults. Children are more creative than adults. If taken the right measures to identify, harness and enhance their creativity, it helps them reach great heights in their adulthood.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>How to inculcate the creativity factor in my child?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me rectify the above statement. Every human species has the ability to create in them. It is not something that has been acquired. Although this innate creativity must be identified and harnessed for better prospects for the children, there are few activities that help anchor the creativity in your child.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Why creativity is important?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to science experts, creativity can be of 2 types viz the ideas that arise from the old ideas, like when the children observe a statue or tree and apply the idea on the activity they are indulging in. The second one is the creativity that develops because of curiosity and exporting different art mediums, materials, and techniques.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Travel with your children for short trips and help them learn about the socio-cultural aspect of the place, the art specialities of the place, history or the science behind the place. Travelling helps them explore new experiences with new people. They also learn to communicate with the people and inculcate social skills. Try to provide more experiences that involve all their five senses or at least a combination of two or more senses. These experiences help the children evolve into a more understanding, empathetic, and knowledgeable person. Their travel experiences account for the memories, and they can draw ideas from their experience. Travelling helps them explore different art forms, and the other information assists them in their future.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Fun activities for Kids:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/what-is-the-role-of-arts-in-education-why-is-it-important-for-kids\/\">Creative art activities for children<\/a><\/strong> will help them enjoy the activity and also create something memorable. Example of common art and craft activities are origami, vegetable print painting, t-shirt painting, straw painting, fingerprint painting, jewellery making, play-dough etc. Many <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/\"><b>kids&#8217; schools in Bangalore<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> include gardening and sand play in their <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/about-inner#our-curriculum\">curriculum<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Simple-Origami-300x200.png\" alt=\"Simple-Origami\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Simple-Origami-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Simple-Origami-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Simple-Origami.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Vegetable-painting-300x200.png\" alt=\"Vegetable-painting\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Vegetable-painting-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Vegetable-painting-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Vegetable-painting.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Simple Origami<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 1- Take a square shaped origami coloured paper or square white chart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 2- Fold the corners together across to make a triangle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 3- Now fold the triangle into half along the centre. The fold goes from left to right and unfold<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 4- Now, fold the left and right triangle edges near the centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 5- Turn over the origami paper and on the flat surface draw a face of a cat or animal.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Vegetable painting:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 1- Take any textured vegetable like ladyfinger, potato, onion, or cucumber and cut them at the quarter of their length horizontally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 2- Take any paint and dip the cut vegetable (use the vegetable as stamp) and ensure the paint is well absorbed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 3- Now use the vegetable and imprint on t-shirts or paper to create exciting designs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0Conclusion:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0At Chrysalis, one of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/play-school-in-whitefield-bangalore\/\"><b>best playschools in Bangalore<\/b><\/a><b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we encourage children to explore different art forms and painting mediums to enhance their creativity. Call us at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">91-70223 76607 \/ +91-70223 76608<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or email us at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:support.whitefield@chrysaliskids.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">support.whitefield@chrysaliskids.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to know more details on the school\u2019s academics and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrysaliskids.com\/admission\">admission<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creativity and Children: Creativity is an innate ability of human beings to create ideas in our imagination and convert it into something tangible and\/or useful in our day-to-day activities. It is the primary source of path-breaking innovations when coupled with applied knowledge as adults. Children are more creative than adults. 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