Art has a potentially vital role in the learning process of children. The process of drawing, painting, or constructing is a complex one in which the child brings together diverse elements of his experience to make a new and meaningful whole. FOR THE CHILD, ART IS A DYNAMIC AND UNIFYING ACTIVITY.

In our present educational system, most emphasis has been put on the learning of factual information. More and more people are recognising that the ability to learn differs from age to age and from individual to individual, and that this ability to learn involves not only intellectual capacity but also social, emotional, perceptual, physical, and psychological factors.

What a person knows or does not know may have no relationship to creative action. One of the basic ingredients of a creative art experience is the relationship between the artist and his environment. Painting, drawing, or constructing is a constant process of assimilation and projection that involves taking in through the senses a vast amount of information, mixing it up with the psychological self, and putting into a new form the elements that seem to suit the aesthetic needs of the artist at the time.

Man learns through his senses. The ability to see, hear, smell, and taste provides the means by which an interaction between man and his environment takes place. The greater the opportunity to develop increased sensitivity and the greater the awareness of all the menses, the greater will be the opportunity for learning.