26 Reasons Why Art is Good for Kids

1. Art develops both sides of the brain.
2. Children who make art read better and do better in math and science.
3. Allows children to express themselves and learn who they are as individuals.
4. Art builds self-esteem and is empowering: "look what I made!"
5. Art is something is share: it builds connections to friends, family and community.
6. Art teaches risk taking and learning from one's mistakes.
7. Art teaches the use and care of tools, and builds relationship to the material world.
8. Art develops hand and eye coordination and higher order thinking skills.
9. art teaches open-ended thinking and creates an environment of questions rather than answers.  In art there are no right or wrong answers.
10. Art teaches children that there can be more than more solution to the same problem.
11. Art nurtures the human soul. 
12. 33% of children are visual learners.
13. Art develops focus and increases attention
14. Art provides a common ground to reach across racial stereotypes, social barriers, and prejudices. An artist's palette has many different colors.
15. Art steps out of the limitations of time and allows a child to be present in the moment.
16. Art is Beautiful!
17. Art opens the heart and mind to possibilities.
18. Art is a way to see and understand the world around us.
19. When art is integrated with other curriculum areas, children become more engaged in the learning process.
20. Children can share and reflect on their art to learn about themselves, each other, and the world they live in.
21. Art teaches one to explore playfully without a preconceived plan, learning from accidents, being surprised, getting beyond the fear of mistakes.
22. Art awaken the imagination and allows the magic to flow.
23. Art creates direct observational skills, learning to see the extraordinary in the ordinary, seeing things that otherwise would be missed.
24. The earliest evidence we have of humanity is through sculptures, rock carvings, and cave paintings.
25. Art develops instincts.
26. A Van Gogh painting sold for $83 million dollars.