Encourage a Love for the Arts in Your Child

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5 Ways to Encourage a Love for the Arts in Your Child

With many children moving to virtual or e-learning in school this year, it is easy to see how certain subjects or curriculums have changed. Subjects like Math, Science, Reading & Writing are still at the forefront of learning. However, certain areas like the arts have been falling by the wayside.

Many schools have gone remote, and many parents have turned and pivoted their own schedules to homeschool their children in order to ensure they don’t fall behind. Having a love for the arts and knowing that music and arts education is important for your children is essential.

In order to keep the arts alive, it’s important to offer your children different options within their homeschool learning. Here are some wonderful ways that you can continue to encourage a love for the arts for your children.

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Online Music Lessons

One of the best ways to incorporate a music education in a virtual setting that equips children in their development is by enrolling them in online beginner lessons for a fundamental instrument, like piano or guitar. Music education provides students with higher academic success, as well as increased social skills, higher self-esteem, and improved knowledge of language.

Some highly rated resources for online music lessons are:

Online lessons are a great way to aid your children’s interest in an instrument or in singing with the help of a skilled instructor. Most teachers usually will provide their students with a foundation in fundamentals of music theory as well as teaching them how to play or sing, so this is a great way in order to let your child learn music and have fun learning a new instrument or how to improve his/her voice.

Arts and Crafts Activities

Young children in particular tend to have some sort of art or crafting activity as part of their curriculum, and this should also be included within the home. Arts and crafts encourage a flow of creative juices and allow children to run with their imaginations. An easy way to include this would be to set up a craft table full of experimental activities like painting or sculpting.

During this craft time, you can also have music playing in the background, since listening to music has the added benefit of increasing productivity. It can assist in helping students to focus while also developing creativity in their task at hand.

You can even have your children make their own instruments to play which includes crafting AND music in an artistic fashion. Music plays a big role in raising successful children.

Musical and Arts Apps

There are multiple musical and art apps that you can download and have your child work with to encourage a love for the arts. Some of the top-rated ones that you might consider for your children at home include:

Curious World – hundreds of educational games, books, videos, and activities updated weekly so your little ones will never be bored.
Sago Mini Music Box – musical adventures with animals for your toddlers.
Create a Car – This app brings creativity and a love for the arts in a different way – kids can choose from multiple styles of cars with tons of different parts, colors, and even settings to put them in.
My First Classical Music App – this contains fun facts about all sorts of instruments and classical musicians, kids can hear different narratives and songs as they tap along.
Art Class with Dr. Panda – this is an interactive way to do art class where your children get the scissors, glue, paint, etc. to make their own crafts.

Online Performances and Workshops

Another great way to encourage a love for arts is by enrolling your child in more than just lessons. If they have the opportunity to see a concert live or participate in an art workshop geared towards a specific project, they will not only take in something that interests them but be inspired and learn some new skills as well.

Many community theaters are doing performances online, musicians are holding virtual concerts, and artists are holding online workshops for students of all ages. Figure out which of these is a great way to help your child keep the arts in their curriculum and add it to their learning.

Ask Questions and Buy the Books

Do some research and look into what might appeal to your children. Ask them questions so that you can get a better idea of what might interest them, such as:

What kind of instrument would you like to learn?
Do you know the difference between a violin and a viola?
Do you know the keys on the piano and what letters they correspond with?
Who’s your favorite singer or composer?
Do you like to create with clay, paper, or wood?
Do you like to paint with your fingers or with a brush?
What sort of music do you like to listen to? What are your favorite songs?
Why do you like this music? How does it make you feel?

There are numerous questions you can ask to find out what sort of creative activities and things interest them, and then do some of your own looking to find what books can help with that.

You can find beginner books for learning instruments, biographies about composers, how to create with paper mache or making sculptures with clay, beginning painter books, and so on.

When parents show interest and ask questions about their children’s arts learning it encourages more thoughts and interesting discussions, keeping them engaged. Arts inspire creativity and those subjects work with the other side of the brain from the logic that is covered in subjects like math and science.

It’s important for parents to give their children as many opportunities to use both logic and creativity, rather than just one or the other. Don’t let arts fall by the wayside; incorporate them as much as possible within your homeschool curriculum, since they are an essential part of their skills and development.

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Charlene Hess

Charlene Hess is the founder of Hess UnAcademy. She spent many years teaching before she had her own kids. She now has 8 kids of her own, whom she has been homeschooled for over a decade.

She has now moved on from Hess UnAcademy to focus on her family and her new site, Secret Life of Homesteaders.