Creative Arts & Music in Licensed Daycare Curriculum in Regina SK | Daisy Days Guide

In an era that increasingly emphasizes STEM learning, the arts are sometimes treated as a luxury addition to early childhood programs. At Daisy Days Daycare in Regina SK, creative arts and music are understood as foundational learning modalities — not decorative extras. Here’s why they matter and how they’re woven into our daily curriculum.

Why Creative Arts Matter in Early Childhood Care

Research on arts in early childhood education reveals that visual art, dramatic play, music, and creative expression are among the most powerful developmental tools available:

• Fine motor development: Drawing, cutting, painting, clay manipulation, collage — all of these develop the small muscle control and hand-eye coordination that underpin later handwriting and self-care skills
• Language and vocabulary: Describing what you made, listening to stories about art, using rich vocabulary for colors, textures, shapes, and techniques — art is a language development activity
• Emotional expression: Young children often express through art what they cannot yet articulate verbally — the feelings, stories, and experiences that live in their inner world find expression in marks on paper
• Creativity and divergent thinking: Open-ended art experiences — where there is no right answer — build the creative thinking and problem-solving approaches that underpin innovation in all domains including STEM
• Identity and agency: “I made this” is a powerful statement of selfhood — the child who creates art develops a sense of themselves as a capable, expressive individual

Why Music Matters in Early Childhood

• Phonological awareness: Singing, rhyming, and rhythmic activities are the single most research-supported activity for building phonological awareness — the prerequisite for reading. Children who sing extensively in early childhood learn to read more easily.
• Memory: Songs are a memory scaffold — information attached to melody is remembered more reliably than information delivered in prose
• Mathematical thinking: Rhythm, beat, and pattern are mathematical — music is embedded math
• Social connection: Group singing and movement create shared experience, community, and the kind of joyful joint attention that supports social bonding
• Mood regulation: Music modulates arousal and emotional state — the right music calms, energizes, or focuses a group of children in ways that words alone cannot

Arts and Music at Daisy Days Daycare in Regina SK

At Daisy Days Daycare, creative arts and music are not a “special activity” scheduled once a week — they are daily, integrated, and organic:

• Morning welcome songs and transition songs: Music marks transitions throughout the day — predictable, familiar, and calming
• Open-ended art materials: Paint, brushes, crayons, markers, clay/playdough, fabric scraps, natural materials — available to all age groups daily with educator facilitation
• Process art over product art: At Daisy Days Daycare, we value what the child does (the process) over what it looks like (the product). A 2-year-old’s fully painted canvas is celebrated as genuinely as a preschooler’s detailed drawing — because both are full engagement with the creative process
• Musical instrument exploration: Drums, shakers, xylophones, and rhythm instruments available in the music area — children explore sound, rhythm, and expression freely
• Songs across the day: Finger plays, action songs, lullabies for rest time, counting songs, goodbye songs — music woven into the full day’s rhythm

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306-807-3233 | info@daisydaysdaycare.com | 2007 Potts Crescent East, Regina SK S4V 2E5