play is crucial to physical, intellectual & social-emotional development at all ages. This is especially true of the purest form of play: the unstructured, self-motivated, imaginative, independent kind, where children initiate their own games & even invent their own rules.~Elkind

When children are exposed to any artistic activity the brain is stimulated from sounds, movements, colors and sizes; neural connections increase and the brain is exercised and strengthened. ~ IBA – Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción