Buzz!! - the result of collaboration between the council and a range of arts agencies in the city - is currently enabling three-to six-year-olds to work with professional artists and to use materials which pre-schools and primary schools could not normally afford.
Jacqueline McKay, arts education co-ordinator for the city, said, 'We know that nurseries and schools are keen on the expressive arts, but many of the things we are doing with these children would be outside their budget.
'At the moment we have a total of 40 children on the programme and they are able to work in art galleries with professional artists and at dance studios with professional dance teachers.'
Ms McKay added, 'When children are treated as professionals themselves, they take so much back to their schools with them.
'We had a pilot project in Aberdeen at Easter and the response was tremendous -we knew we were on to a winner. Now we are in the first year of three years of support from the New Opportunities Fund totalling 100,000.'
The Buzz!! programme has also linked up with the Edinburgh-based Scottish Storytelling Centre and its 50 registered storytellers so that parents, childminders and other childcarers can take children to community libraries across Aberdeen, where they can hear stories from a range of cultures.
Ms McKay said, 'It is really designed to revive the oral tradition of storytelling, with myths and legends from across the globe, from Africa to India.'
She believed the holiday arts programmes being developed in the city, which cater for young people aged up to 18, can help with behavioural problems, violence and drugs issues as well as helping to build self-esteem and complement the school curriculum.