They are bombarded by traffic noise and the car ride itself, television, radio, the mechanical noises that fill our homes, and spiritual discord between people. Young children are not yet hardened as we are to such sense impressions. They do not have our capacity to filter out or close off portions of the sensory environment, as we do. One consequence of this is an increase in hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorder, and nervousness in young children. To counter this, and to begin a healing process, an artistic element is woven into the rhythm of the children's day.
Young children experience the life process as rhythmic.
First they feel the human heart beat, then the rhythm of the breathing process, and then the metabolic process. Later, as they get older, they become aware of day and night and of the seasons. They find security in living rhythmically in a balanced way, between rigidity and chaos. Each day has a special creative activity, so that the children know that painting day is followed by baking day, which is then followed by handwork day, one after the other. They know that when they first arrive at school they may play at setting up for the day's activity, for example by getting out the painting things.