B.
Creative art
In relation to children, the creative arts are activities that engage a child's imagination and can
include activities such as art, dance, drama, puppetry, and music. Creative arts are activities that
actively engage children’s imagination through art, dance, dramatic play or theater, puppetry,
and music. The creative arts engage children across all domains cognitive, language, social,
emotional, and physical.
Activities are deliberately open-ended (not prescriptive), foster divergent thinking, and support
the process without particular attention on the product.
Mayesky (2013) offers teachers eight ways to help children express their natural creativity
through the arts.
■ Help children accept change. Fear and anxiety are the enemies of creativity.
■ Help children realize that some problems have no easy answers.
■ Help children recognize that many problems have many possible answers. The goal is to
explore and discover.
■ Help children monitor and accept their own feelings.
■ Value children’s creativity, even when it’s messy.
■ Recognize and acknowledge children’s joy in all creative endeavors.
■ Help children appreciate their own unique characteristics and expressions.
■ Help children persevere. Encourage them to explore, discover, and explore again.
In addition, about why creative art is important in academics? Creative art in education has its
own power The Power of an Arts Education Increased self-confidence and self-
understanding, enhanced communication skills, and improved cognition are among the
many reasons for teaching the arts.
C. creative art in learning English
The creative art in learning English. In learning English, the creative arts are very important
because the creative arts can make learning English fun and interesting. Students of all ages
enjoy making things and being active. Incorporating English into art, craft and drama activities
can motivate students to express themselves in English. In these kinds of activity, you can
practice and develop your own language skills along with students.
These are the reasons why creative art are very important in learning English:
Using art and craft to stimulate English language learning
Teacher can using art and craft in variation in teaching to make a fun learning and could be
memorable to the students. Because students love something different and unique. By using craft
and art in learning English can stimulate the students to be easier to understand the English
learning.
Painting and learning English
Painting is one of the strategy that can be use in learning English. The teacher can ask the
students to make their own painting and the teacher asked students to describe their paintings in
English.
Using drama and role play to stimulate English language learning
Drama activities also encourage students to speak and practice English. Dramatization of the
language textbook lesson is a very good method for teaching English. Students can be directly
practice their speaking skill by using drama and role-play and to reduce students insecurities in
learning and can improve students confidence.
Using music to enrich student’s vocabulary and improve students listening skill.
Students will loves music, by using music it can be enrich their vocabulary. Teacher can make
the variation in teaching learning activities by using music. For example, the teacher can prepare
the students with sound and the students must to fill the blank lyric
Deepening Cultural and Self-Understanding to improve students reading skills and
comprehension
By using culture in the text, it can improve students reading skills and comprehension because
the students are already familiar with it, so it can be easier for the students to comprehend the
text.
The creative art can be use in teaching to improve all the aspect skills in English learning to
make a combination and variation to the learning so it can be more fun to the students.
Without forgetting about the culture.
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Mills,Hannah. The importance of creative arts in early childhood classrooms
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/creativity-academics-power-of-arts-education-neil-swapp
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