Art is a great way for children to express themselves. It also helps to develop fine motor skills, use of tools, problem solving skills and self-confidence. The Montessori environment provides open-ended art activities to help the children to explore and use their creativity. On the art shelf, watercolour painting, gluing collage materials, playdough, chalk with a chalkboard and various art mediums are accessible and available to the children throughout the day.
The human hand, so delicate and so complicated, not only allows the mind to reveal itself but enables the whole being to enter into special relationships with its environment…man takes possession of his environment with his hands. His hand, under the guidance of his intellect, transforms this environment and thus enables him to fulfill his mission to the world.
Dr Maria Montessori, “The Discovery of the Child”
