59-05-032 Proceeding

348 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress do not take this matter seriously as soon as we can, it might be too late, and many of our children may succumbed with their problems in their own family relationship, life skill, and social skill. Teachers are important souls who could see through each individual child problems. Teachers can help children in many ways, educate them, train them to have proper skills, and develop them inmost appropriate and effective ways. Teachers have a strong impact on children’s well-being and development, vice versa, they can make children under pressure and developed negative responses to their environment. If the latter happened, the children would end up unhappiness and lack of competency, and so they would grow up unsuccessful. The study of the Department of Academic Study of the Ministry of Education found that the children would be happy persons at school if they have the three inputs of their love for the schools, teachers, and friends (VichaiWongyai, 1997). Besides these three inputs of love, the childrenwould be happier if the lesson learning is stimulating, fun, and provide them to learn by doing by themselves withmore interactions with real experiences in the learning (Sansanee Chatkup, 2001).The two characteristics of happiness in school are based on the infrastructure of the school that should be well-managed and maintained to provide good atmospheres for learning, and another is the human relationship that good interactionsmust be supported by everyone in the school.Therefore, school today should be a venue for the children happiness growth. The authors believed that art is one of the fields that wouldmake the children get over their life obstacles and be happier. Art has its healing power, and nature that stimulate the children to change their improper behaviors to appropriated ones, because art is fun, pleasurable, and allows for the children’s individual expression (Kuntarat Pailin, 2003). The unique quality of art made it becomes suitable for all children’s development and skills, which support the practices of learning, thinking and imagination (Somsri Adunpan, 2003). Art has many media; drawing, painting, sculpting, and printing, that has the power to reduce unwanted behaviors such as aggression and alienation (Thippayakamon Boonpuk, 2010). Thus art is a universal language that is relevant to the thoughts, feelings andminds of the children, and as such is subjected to their better expression and development of good behaviors and skills. Objectives 1. To apply art activities that increase the happiness of grade-I students. 2. To compare the pretest-posttest results of the children’s happiness levels, before and after the art intervention. Methodology This semi-experimental research follow the Quasi Experiment ResearchDesign:Within— Subject Design researchmethod that usedOne-group Pretest-Posttest Design aims at studying the effect of art activities that enhance the happiness of children. The sample groups are six grade-I students from Anuban Tahanbok Lop Buri School in Lop Buri province. The subjects for studies