The objective of the present study is to integrate the inquiry, expression and
appreciation of art plays and to examine how activities integrating music, motions
and dramatic plays centering on art plys affect young children's creativity and
aesthetic attitnde.
For this purpose, we set research qnestions as follows.
1) What effects do integrated art plays have on young children's creativity
(flnency, originality, and imagination)?
2) What effects do integrated art plays have on young children's aesthetic
attitude (aesthetics, art history, art criticism, and formative expression)?
The results of this study are as follows.
First, in the results of examining the effects of integrated art plays on young
children's creativity, the children in the experimental group who had experienced
integrated art plays showed higher mean scores of fluency, originality, and
imagination, the sub-factors of creativity, than those in the control group, and the
differences were statistically significant.
Second, in the results of examining the effects of integrated art plays on
young children's aesthetic attitude, the children in the experimental group who had
experienced integrated art plays showed higher mean scores of aesthetics, art
history, art criticism, and formative expression, the sub-factors of aesthetic attitude,
than those in the control group, andthe (lifferences were statistically significant.
Based on the results of this study as presented above, it is concluded that
integrated art plays are effective in improving creativity and developing aesthetic
attitude in young children.