This spring bring your children to an arts-based camp
SPRING BREAK IS AROUND THE CORNER! — a great opportunity for children to pause, enhance their creativity, try new experiences, and interact with friends. An arts-based camp is a great alternative for this time of year since through these kinds of programs, children can exercise their bodies, stimulate their minds, explore their creativity and nurture their spirit.
The combination of various methods of artistic expression such as music, dance, visual arts, and drama provides many benefits that go beyond the ability to perform arts.
By enrolling your child in a focused arts-based camp, they also will have the opportunity to have a complete social-emotional learning and cultural experience.
In fact, through the arts children are able to represent experiences that they cannot verbalize. They may draw pictures out of proportion, exaggerating things that are important to them. When we value children’s creativity, we help them feel valued as people, raising their self-esteem
The organization Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) revealed through different research that children who participate in social-emotional learning programs “demonstrate significantly enhanced social-emotional skills, attitudes, and positive social behavior, reduced conduct problems, and emotional distress and improved academic performance”.
Arts education helps improve at school
In addition, many of the skills children will acquire in an arts camp are formative. These skills help them to develop intellectually, socially, and physically, and some are even aligned with reading and writing curriculums.
Research has also shown that arts education helps improve standardized test scores. A study done in 2015 by The College Board, a nonprofit association that works to make sure all students in the American educational system are college-ready, found that students who take four years of arts and music classes while in high school score 91 points better on their SAT exams than students who took only a half year or less (scores averaged 1070 among students in arts educations compared to 979 for students without arts education).
Arts-based camp offers a lot of benefits to children and families alike, many of which may not be immediately evident.
A report conducted by the Arts Education Partnership showed that schoolchildren exposed to the arts may do a better job at mastering reading, writing, and math than those who focus solely on academics
Benefits of arts-based camp
According to Arts Education Partnership, arts offer the following benefits:
Music: improves math achievement and proficiency, reading and cognitive development; boosts SAT verbal scores and skills for second-language learners.
Dance. Helps with creative thinking, originality, elaboration, and flexibility; improves expressive skills, social tolerance, self-confidence, and persistence.
Visual arts. Improve content and organization of writing; promote sophisticated reading skills and interpretation of text, reasoning about scientific images, and reading readiness.
Multi-arts (a combination of art forms). Helps with reading, verbal, and math skills; improves the ability to collaborate and higher-order thinking skills.
Exposing children to arts is like planting seeds of wellness and success in the lives of our children. Springtime is an amazing opportunity for them to explore, enjoy and discover new forms of expression.
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About Inna Maor, Executive Director of Academic Schools 4 Arts.
Inna Maor began to dance and play music at a very young age in Odessa Ukraine. She has a BA in Music Education and Piano Performance from the Moscow College of Arts and a BA in Dance Education from The Wingate Institute in Netanya, Israel.
For over 35 years, she has taught many students from different elementary, middle, high schools, as well as dance studios both nationally and internationally. Inna’s dance and piano students represent her school at international competitions. Using her wealth of performing and teaching experience, Inna shares her love of dance, music, theater, and art.
She also leads the Performing Arts Conservatory Inna’s Hall of Fame and the nonprofit organization Arts 4 All.
