In the early years, children are encouraged to express themselves in all the arts, to create landscapes, sound, music, and symbolic language. As children gain greater control of crayons and brushes, and as their eye-hand coordination improves, their drawings and paintings will become more detailed and colorful. Yet in the vast majority of primary-school settings, education in the arts is given very little time or left out altogether. For this reason it is especially important that parents encourage and support their children's art activities.
Parents can help make the arts a central element of their children's experience.