The individual creativity that can adapt well to various environments and cultures is needed more than anything else today in the information age, the IT competition era and the globalized age. It is a recent trend that the creativity education is more important in line with the flow of the times in this way. Especially, the importance of educational efforts to develop creativity in childhood is drawing more attention in the future.
Art activity has a great significance in the process of exploring and representing through the activity process with freely expressing own idea. An interest comes to be felt with acting on own initiative centering on the rich imagination and the varied expression. Many scholars are stressing that the particular period dubbed childhood is crucial in the development of creativity.
This study tried to inquire into the art activities of children aged 3 to 5 in full as the art program for the development of children's creativity with the connected expansion activity in conformity with the Standard Childcare Curriculum and the Nuri Curriculum. Targeting young children who correspond to the most critical period with the rapid development of expression, vocabulary & inquiry skills and the creativity development along with the holistic development, the research and suggestion were made on what the art activity with a more integrated and new way of concept deviating from the existing uniform style of art education can lead to the educational meaning & necessity of creative expression activity and the educational effect, and to the positive impact of art activity.
Through researching into this program, the activities were presented in line with the stage of child development while children experience emotion, creativity, aesthetic formative function, sensitivity and personality education with their bodies in addition to the category contents required by the play-oriented and child-centered education. The expansion activity linked with other development areas with doing art activities led to having examined a meaning that children's expressive characteristic and creativity have on the basis of a research on the theory of the existing child art scholars, to having thought about various materials and activities to enhance children's creative expression based on this, and to having inquired into a teaching method for children's creative art activities. For the creative art activity, there is a need to have a good understanding about the stage of child development, to propose a variety of materials and activities suitable for this, and to make children available for exploring and expressing freely and for representing their thoughts. It is necessary to support what young children need by preparing a minimum play plan rather than a teacher-led class, by allowing children to participate directly in a play and to plan activity, and by reflecting teachers' opinions and children's comments.
Children's art activity was shown a positive change in young children in the process of being developed the connected & expanded play together with the integration of play and made children's play become more abundant. The play of being actively progressed by young children had a different depth of play and brought about more discussions of sharing information with friends. The impact of play could be known by reflecting the elements of interest in play and operating a program such as creative expression, a sense of achievement, etc.
Through the process of experiencing, young children come to be possibly made evenly developments such as basic life, physical exercise & health, social relations, nature exploration, and art experience that are presented by the Standard Childcare Curriculum while playing and experiencing through using their bodies with helping the holistic development. Also, children proceed with growing by sensory stimulation through feeling with their bodies and through their five senses. Thus, there is a need to provide environment so that young children can think for themselves, express the creativity and open the thinking ability.
The integrated art activity that is conducive to the growth of creative talents with the human image of the future society leads to suggesting the directivity of the timely education and to finding a solution in keeping with the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Thus, the creative art program is expected to be applied to the actual educational field for young children, thereby being helpful for the educational development.