The artistic expression is the channeling of ideas and sensations intellectuals outward and towards others through an artistic discipline.
Throughout their development, children are becoming a mental representation of the world around them or they are idealizing it in a symbolic way, building an intellectual structure that will later help them to "conduct themselves" through society and the environment.
But this process loses efficiency and stability if it cannot be expressed. The expression is, metaphorically, the varnish that encompasses and protects memories and symbolic structures. This is something proven in the study methodology: when two colleagues come together to study a subject, the one who retains it with more ease and precision is the one who tries to explain it to the other.
Between the ages of two and five, children are already beginning to develop complex ideas but they still do not master the language to transmit them fluently and naturally. The artistic expression in this age group, helps to reflect these ideas in various materials: scribbles, drawings, constructions with wood or pieces of toys, placement of objects, elaboration with sand or earth ...
Not only do I mean ideas, but emotions. It is common for people, when they are restless, to dedicate themselves to placing something: their papers, tools, wardrobe clothes ... I understand that this is also a form of expression, since we structure a series of elements with a pattern and a intention. The end result is that the act of placing these objects in an orderly manner helps us to calm down.
In children, the possibility of experimenting and expressing with different elements such as paints, wooden dowels, fabrics, markers ... will give way to the construction of projects such as cardboard houses, garages for cars dug in the ground, the castles built with sand ... All this will not have the value that is often given of: "color this sheet without leaving the edges of the drawing" or "copy this construction with these pieces", but the translation of an intellectual project in a material act. It is reasonable to think that the opportunity to have these experiences in childhood will facilitate the development of vital projects (regarding work, training or family) at maturity.
