Art as Therapy in Childcare

Daycares are, for some children, to enhance learning before entering school and as a safe space to go to after school. Not all children can go to daycare but of the ones that do, the emotional and behavioral issues that arise during the day have become overlooked. Through this proposal, the preschool stages of development are analyzed, behaviors that occur in children of this age and how they are being helped specifically, are explored. This proposal also addresses the most common behavioral and emotional problems as well as recognizing the skills that art helps develop in preschool children. This project will present a resource/curriculum designed specifically around the preschool child who displays emotional and behavioral problems in the classroom. This resource/curriculum will be able to support the child through art as therapy practices that addresses emotional regulation and behavioral issues by giving them an outlet that is appropriate to display the emotions that they are feeling and going through. This resource/curriculum aims to work through, talk about and show children of this age group, how to get through their emotional and behavioral upsets through art as therapy.