An abundant emotional experience in childhood can be a basis of success of their life. In this research, I set up a hypothesis as follows to see if a group plastic activities are effective for the improvement of children\'s emotional intelligence and self-emotion awareness ability, self-emotion management ability, self-motivation ability, other\'s emotion awareness ability and personal relationship skill ability.
The research subjects were 40 children of 5 years old(experimental Group: 20, controlled group: 20) in Y kindergarten located in Ulsan. In pretest, we confirmed homogeneity between experiment and control group using child emotional checklist and then applied small group plastic artistic activities to the experiment group. Data analysis was performed with population, percentage, t-test and Cronbach a.
The findings of this study were: First, the group plastic artistic activities was effective for the emotional intelligence of children. Second, the small group plastic activities was effective for the self-emotion awareness , self-emotion control and self motivation ability of children. Third, the small group plastic activities was effective for the awareness ability about other\'s emotion and personal relationship skill ability.
The result of this study implies that the small group plastic artistic activities are effective children\'s emotion and we need to develop the various activity program and practice for children\'s emotion development.