Top 5 Ways Performing Arts Classes Boost Toddler Confidence

During their key early years, toddlers are building confidence as they explore the world around them. We’ve found one of the best ways to support them is through dynamic, fun and friendly performing arts classes designed to help toddlers boost their confidence, creativity, self-expression, communication skills and more. As they learn songs, discover new moves and make new friends, they’re learning how to dance to the beat of their own drum and developing core skills that will equip them as they journey through childhood. Here are five ways that toddler performing arts lessons can help early years children boost confidence and build that key skillset.

1. Encourages self-belief and self-expression

Performing arts classes empower children to explore their voices and emotions in a safe and friendly environment. This shows toddlers a healthy way to express themselves through creating art, socialising and releasing energy through play.

This builds confidence from a young age as children find courage in knowing their voice is heard and appreciated, and through discovering there’s always a safe space for them in the world.

2. Improves social and communication skills

As toddlers mix with others in class, they start making friends and working out how to build key social bonds. These early social skills hugely benefit children as they begin to grow and experience life away from their parents and home lives, at the likes of nursery and school. Many toddlers feel a sense of separation anxiety or shyness when away from their parents and siblings in a new environment. Performing arts classes give toddlers the opportunity to learn how to interact with others their age in a friendly and pressure-free way, through fun, social exercises and the guidance of a teacher.

In addition, through our Mini Stages classes, students build their vocabulary and motor skills through storytelling exercises, song and dance. Learning the actions to accompany songs and given prompts to play with their imaginations helps their understanding of non-verbal communication and emotional awareness in themselves and others. This sets them up to build strong self-awareness and empathy through their childhood.

3. Develops problem-solving and independence

As toddlers are encouraged to explore their imaginations, they are engaging key cognitive skills that will help them puzzle out problems they encounter them in life. Through creative play, toddlers are learning to rely on their own brain for ideas and solutions. This gives them an early sense of independence as they have the chance to see where their ideas take them in a safe and friendly class experience.  

4. Builds resilience

Toddlers build resilience in performing arts classes by engaging in activities like improv, following a rhythm and playing games that require them to learn adaptability and be open to trying something new.

This can also encourage a strong sense of achievement through celebrating the small wins. For toddlers, remembering the words to a song or learning a new dance move is exciting and having a teacher and peers cheering them on for these small wins creates an environment of positive reinforcement. This, in turn, encourages a good attitude to learning as toddlers begin to associate learning something new as a source of achievement.

5. Supports creativity and taking safe risks

Helping toddlers explore their creative side can be a hugely rewarding aspect of enrolling them to performing arts classes. As children are given different scenarios, characters and settings to explore, they expand their imaginations further and are empowered to see just how fun and joyful storytelling and performing can be.

Toddlers can take safe risks in class as they let their creative freedom take them from the deep jungle to an enchanted castle to wherever else they’d like to go, all from the safety of their classroom. This helps them build confidence in their own mind and creativity.

If you’d like to see how our Mini Stages classes for ages 2-4 can benefit your toddler and their confidence, search your postcode at Stagecoach.co.uk to book in a Two-Week Trial.