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Apr 12, 2018

Who's Afraid of a Little Paint?

We're not!  We know at AoCS that painting is extremely important to a child's development.  Check out seven benefits of finger painting below and see just one of our many painting adventures we completed this morning.

Benefits of Finger painting include:

  • It is an excellent tactile experience.
  • It stimulates your child’s senses. (Touch/feel, sight, smell, edible finger paint= taste)
  • It helps a child’s intellectual development. The mixing of colors teaches your child about their colors and how to create new colors
  • It allows them to use their imagination and create
  • It is emotionally soothing (in most cases).
  • It encourages cognitive development.
  • It strengthens the hand and fingers which helps with fine motor skills.
  • Most importantly, it is FUN!
 Starting to paint our butterflies.

Things got a little messy, and a whole lotta fun!

 Paint everywhere! Even on Ms. Kaitlyn!

 But it caused a lot of smiles.

 Good thing it's washable paint!  ;)

 The beautiful aftermath.