The purpose of this study was to develop the early childhood art program based on visual culture
and to examine the effect of it on young children's sentence structure, picture and vocabulary,
drawing representational ability, and visual perception. For developing the program, this study
examined the literature and studies on the visual culture and early childhood art program for the
program object, contents, organization of the contents, teaching-learning strategies, and evaluation.
Final draft of the program was confirmed from the discussion and review of it with experts of the
early childhood education for applying it to the field of early childhood education. To examine the
effect of the program on young children's visual literacy, drawing representational ability, and visual
perceptual ability, this study chose 58 5-year-old children, who were assigned into the experimental
group and the control group, in a kindergarten at D city in Korea. In summary, it is said that the
program developed in this study has effect on improvement of young children's understanding
meaning of sentence structure, picture and vocabulary, drawing representational ability, visual
perceptual ability. In addition, the program developed in this study implies that integration of visual
culture and art education makes good progress on young children's cognitive ability.