How important is it for children to have messy and fun art time? Very important! You may think that children need structure and rules, they do need these things, and they also need time to express themselves artistically and creatively.

How do children learn to draw? They learn by doing, the best way for children to learn to draw is by practicing. Give a child a pencil and some paper and they will start to put together shapes to express themselves.

But there seems to be a lack of people teaching art to children. If you do a quick Google search you find a lot of websites but many of them are devoid of content. Shabby websites from 1995 are all over the web preaching about how they can help your children learn art from various sources.
What’s the answer? Practice. Let your kid learn how to draw themselves. If they show a lot of talent then it would help to get an art teacher to assist them. When I was in high school I had an art class where the teacher left me alone to my paintings, time from time she would come by and help with questions I had, but she left me to my own devices. What was the end result of me being left alone to practice my own art? I won best in show of an art show.

I’m not saying every child will immediately take to art but give them the chance and you never know where it may lead.