40 developmental assets:External Asset #17

Creative Activities

When i child has creative activities in their lives they are more than likely to get into less trouble, do better in school, and score higher on not only high school and elementary test but also college tests. Kids who are involved in a form of creative arts such as a choir, band, painting, drawing, designing, dancing, sculpting, and photography become more creative and insightful and start to apply those skills to other things in life. They will learn valuable lessons in these activities they will be able to apply to their everyday lives.

Adding the arts to your family time can increase the communication and create stronger bonds through time. Some ideas you could do with your family is plan a day once a month to go as a family to a play, musical, concert, dance performance, museum, or art gallery. While on this family outing you will be able to talk to the kids in a more comfortable environment and create stronger bonds with them. You will also be able to find out some of the arts they like and dislike. Another way you can apply the arts to your family is to go to one another choir or band or play concerts for support. When you attend one anothers activities that not only shows love to the person involved but also exposes you to different kinds of arts.

It is proven that the arts makes people smarter! There was a test given where Mozart was played for students just before taking the test. In the results the students scores 8-9 points higher than taking the test without the Mozart music! It has also been proven that students in the study of arts and music have scored higher on their SAT scores in both the verbal, and math tests!

If taking some time to invest in our children fun and encouraging activities make they smarter and help them not only now in life but through their whole lives why are we not doing it?