Grade Levels:

0-3

Length:

30 minutes

Taping Rights:

Unlimited

MARC Record:

Downloadable

Web Site:

KET Online

Teaching Materials:

See Below

Children love to move, sing, draw, sculpt, and pretend. And these fun activities are also an engaging way to promote development and learning. Art to Heart offers parents and teachers of young children insight into how involvement in visual arts, dance, drama, and music from the earliest years contributes to children’s physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development—as well as ideas and inspiration for activities to do together.

The series’ eight engaging programs visit schools, child care centers, museums, and community centers across the country to explore a wide array of innovative hands-on arts programs. Researchers, artists, teachers, and parents offer examples of enjoyable and beneficial arts activities for both home and educational settings. Meanwhile, the delighted responses of the children participating in the featured projects illustrate the sheer joy of creating.

Art to Heart is a 2006 KET production.

Program of Studies
All Arts and Humanities disciplines: Structure in the Arts, Humanity in the Arts, Purposes for Creating the Arts, Processes in the Arts, Interrelationships Among the Arts