Arts education, a crucial avenue for nurturing children's creativity, imagination, and communicative abilities, is increasingly valued by parents. Not only does it serve as a key to accelerate children's cognitive development, but also helps children explore their inner emotions and spirit, ultimately laying a sturdy foundation for their personal growth and holistic development. Let us explore together how the arts seed rich imagination and creativity along the path of children's growth.

Igniting Children’s Cognitive Growth

Arts education for children goes beyond than merely learning to draw or craft. Rather, it is about opening a window that unleashes the children's cognitive potential. The brain's left hemisphere, responsible for understanding logic, acquiring language, and exercising judgment, enables children to grasp rules and various abstract concepts in society. Meanwhile, the right hemisphere, governing rhythm, spatial perception, colour recognition, and image processing, endows children with rich emotions and boundless imagination. Arts education bridges the functionality of the two hemispheres, stimulating children's creativity and sensory receptors through various art forms, ranging from painting and sculpting to playing music and dancing.

Inspiring Children’s Inner Universe

The benefits of participating in arts activities for children are manifold, one of which is enhancing their concentration. One example of these arts activities is waffle decoration. Apart from allowing children and their parents to let their imaginations run wild together, the decoration process also forces children to focus on colour selection, shape depiction, and overall conceptualisation. Training and improving children’s concentration is essential for their learning, especially subject learning at school.

Additionally, music education plays an instrumental role in fostering children’s growth. From infants to preschoolers and beyond, music has been shown to have tremendous benefits for cognitive development. It can cultivate auditory perception and processing abilities, boost memory and keep the brain agile

Meanwhile, dancing lessons are excellent opportunities to promote the development of children’s sensory abilities while strengthening family bonds. Swaying to the beat of music stimulates infants’ auditory and motor development, enabling them to develop a sense of rhythm and improve body coordination. Not to mention, exposing children to music of varying melodies at a young age helps cultivate their music perception abilities.

Through the window of arts education, children take their first steps into a more colourful and diverse world. The sense of achievement from completing a painting, a handicraft, or even a dance builds up their confidence, instilling in them the courage to showcase their talents to the world, express themselves, explore uncharted territories, and most importantly, teaching them the value of self-appreciation.

The "Easter ARTventure" in Lee Garden features over 20 art-themed activities over a period of ten days, providing children with an imaginative parent-child experience trip! Together, we shall plant the artistic seed into the hearts of children, allowing their colourful dreams to eventually take flight into the bright sky. Visit and enrol on hy! online platform now.

During Easter Holiday, redeem a special children’s gift* with spending at designated Lee Gardens stores:
1/ Redeem a children’s book with spending of up to $2000
2/ Redeem a $200 digital voucher from a children’s good store with spending of up tp $4000
*Terms and Conditions apply.