La pintura como estrategia para desarrollar la creatividad en niños de preescolar.

Abstract

Painting proves to be a highly effective strategy to stimulate creativity in preschool children. Through this artistic activity, children can express emotions and thoughts nonverbally, nurture their imagination by creating imaginary worlds, and develop cognitive skills. This research related to painting and the development of creativity in preschool children, considering a mixed methodological approach combining quantitative and qualitative methods. Initially, an approach was maintained with the authorities of the institution to gain access to the study population and to apply the creativity test. A correlational study was used to analyze creativity and the use of painting in preschoolers, from which it was obtained that 76.7% of those evaluated reached a high level of creativity. In addition, the color preference associated with primary and secondary colors and combinations of them, namely green, blue, yellow, red, and tomato, which indicated a greater use of them, was verified. In conclusion, there is a positive relationship between the use of paint and the level of creativity where the benefits ranging from emotional expression and imagination to the development of cognitive and social skills were also verified. An interesting finding is evident in the level of creativity by gender, showing that girls have a higher level. Painting provides them with a means to communicate thoughts and emotions visually, and cultivate the ability to think divergently and to solve problems creatively. Keywords: painting, strategy, development, creativity, preschool.