Activation of Utterance and Non-Cognitive Abilities in Children’s Art Activities

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to clarify practically that children’s art activities in childcare will encourage children’s utterance and non-cognitive abilities. As a method, we analyzed the correlation between the quality and creativity of children’s art activities and the growth of utterance and non-cognitive abilities (reassurance, independence, cooperativeness, interest) promoted thereby, and visualized the results by chart. As a result, it showed that a high quality art activity is effective for the growth of child’s utterance and non-cognitive ability. High quality art activities encourage creative acts such as Mitate (look on something as another one), ingenuity, trial and error, as well as actions leading to the activation of utterance and non-cognitive abilities. It is the power of the image to bridge the growth of creativity and non-cognitive abilities in the children’s art activities, and it is necessary for teachers to support children to form and share images driving the art activities.