Advantages of theater for children
Children's theater is one of the most popular extracurricular activities for children. To do theater, it is not necessary that a star be born in the family, it will be enough for the child to be willing to have fun, invent and interpret stories and make friends. The theater is ideal to help the development of verbal and corporal expression, to stimulate children's memory capacity and mental agility.
The best age is from five years old, at this age the child will be able to read, understand and his memory power is high. Children absorb everything they hear.
Starting in the theater provides an unbeatable range of advantages that enhances the imagination of the little ones. In addition, we can encourage this activity by going to the numerous children's plays that there are, in which our children can see their activity enhanced in the theater, as well as being an activity within the leisure of the family group that we can share.
Children and the theater
- Between 18 months and two years the symbolic game appears in the child, this allows the child to represent real or fictitious situations, helping to understand the environment in which he lives. For example, when a child stretches out his arms and pretends to be a super hero or when a girl with a blanket in her arms plays as if cradling a baby.
This game evolves as the language develops and the child grows, giving way to a more complex game where the child's relationship with his peers will take on increasing importance, also helping him in his social development.
- From the age of 4 They already understand that a person can play several roles and that each one requires a different attitude.
- Around seven years "the rules" will take importance in the game, these will allow the child a greater social adaptation. The child will accept some rules that will be an important step for the respect of the norms of the adult society.
Benefits of theater in children
- Help to the memory, retaining the dialogues and improves its diction.
- It will increase your self-esteem.
- Learn to respect and live together as a group.
- Know and control your emotions.
- You will discover what is discipline and perseverance of work.
- In addition, you will know how to cope with the public.
- Strengthens academic tasks such as reading and literature.
- Updates the child in language, art and history subjects.
- Help to socialize with other children.
- Improves concentration and attention in children.
- Transmit and instill values.
- Promotes children to reflect.
- Motivates the exercise of thought.
- Stimulates creativity and imagination.
- Makes children safer
Noelia de Santiago Monteserín
