There has been a long bias that arts is a kind of activity requiring nothing intellectual and proper at best for pleasure and recreation. It made people think that early childhood artistic activity is good for cultivation of emotion or a means to raise creativity. Such viewpoint results from the lack of recognition of the exploratory(cognitive) function included in the artistic activity and presents the basis of necessity for integrating artistic and exploratory activity. This study investigated the exploratory characteristics implicated in early childhood artistic activity. First, it is summarized as the encounter with qualitative directivity. Any human being is born with the ability to sense the quality of the world. This ability becomes possible by five senses, the perceptive system, and the development of preception can be fostered through the artistic activity. Second, the learning efficiency of the direct experience through artistic activity is excellent. The lively interaction in the course of activity brings about the development of thinking power, interest and learning motivation, and enables the aesthetical experience. Artistic activity is also able to reveal the 'only experience', the most idealistic and perfect experience. This only experience is what 'clarifies' and 'enhances' the aesthetic characteristics and possible through artistic activity. This aesthetic experience becomes an essential factor of learning experience. Lastly, the imagination can enlarge the horizon of the children infinitely. Imagination is a high-level abstractive and conceptual activity that enlarges the spirit of children infinitely and enables realizing any intellectual idea into a concrete behavior. Artistic activity lets the children know the area they have not yet experienced and presents the opportunity to find a new possibility. It also actualizes the thought easy to disappear through the course of creation. Therefore the artistic activity becomes a good tool to explore the inside of the children and young children can grow through the exploratory function implicated in the artistic activity.