Art teachers in preschool education need to possess not only high professional competence but also a commitment to continuous learning to enhance their comprehensive teaching abilities. The art teaching quality evaluation in preschool education programs at vocational colleges is multiple-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM). Currently, the Exponential TODIM and cross-entropy approach was employed to address MAGDM. Interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets (IVPFSs) serve as a strategy for characterizing uncertain data during the art teaching quality evaluation in preschool education programs at vocational colleges. In this study, the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy number cross-entropy Exponential TODIM (IVPFN-CE-ExpTODIM) approach is developed to bring up MAGDM problems under IVPFSs. To validate the proposed method, a numerical study is conducted on the art teaching quality evaluation in preschool education programs at vocational colleges.