Hey Everyone, Ceativity is very important for a child’s development. Let’s talk about it.
what is creativity ?
I asked this question to a lot of people and I received most of the responses that creativity lies in drawing, craft work, painting, dance, music only.
All these answers are right, according to those people but creativity is more than that. It turns any thing into reality.
▪Let’s start with a short story to understand it.
Once upon a time, in a house food was made in a very traditional way by sitting down on the kitchen floor. There was a child in that house. The child saw how his mother was making chapati. And one day that child also made chapati but without gas. Can you guess how?
Answer can be through PRETEND, IMAGINATION…
■ CREATIVITY IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT
● Creativity plays an important role for children’s early development in all domains like cognitive, language, social, emotional skills as well as physical skills.
● Creativity is a part of child development. Due to which the child can also solve his problem and if a good idea comes to his mind, then the imagination power also intensifies.
● Through creativity, children can also be encouraged to and find it easier to express experiences which they otherwise find difficult to share.
● When a child sees someone doing something, he/she is also awakened to do. (Like I told in the story)
■IMPORTANCE OF CREATIVITY
● Creativity leads to child development.
● Creativity help children to explore their emotions both displaying and regulating them.
● Parents should support their children in creative ideas.
● Creativity enhances the child’s attention, concentration and imagination power.
● Creativity give the child a chance to solve his/her problem.
● Creative experiences provide opportunities for children to express and demonstrate their knowledge in interesting and meaningful ways.
● It is important to keep in mind that each child develops differently and each child approaches creative experiences differently.
Let your child’s inner creativity awaken. Give your child space and freedom. The creativity of the child will come out from inside itself.
■ Here I suggest some activities to nurture creativity of young children:-
● DRAMA:-
• Make a puppet theater in your house. You can use a simple puppet (cardboard puppet). You can tell your child to make a puppet for herself/himself. Imagine, your children have made the teacher’s puppet, he/she will play the role of the teacher.
•If you are telling a story to your child, then also give him a role. It could be doctors, mothers, fathers, shopkeepers, policeman, telephone conversation, going to the shop whatever your child likes.
●WATER BALLOON PAINTING:-
•In this activity you need balloon and painting colours. And ofcourse need a little space for fun.
• Fill the balloon with water for your child. Now give your child a balloon and let him colour it. This allows your child to remember the names of Colors as well.Kids enjoy it a lot. It will be called Fun with learning.
● MUSIC, MOVEMENT AND DANCE:-
• You can have a rhyme session at home. Encourage your child for all these things.
• Show your child videos of animals. It seems to have that children enjoy a lot in making small sounds of animals and walking like them. You can also tell your child that “you can walk like any animal and I will tell which animal it is.” Kids will have a lot of fun.
•You can also tell your child to dance on his/her favorite song.If the child is still not dancing then the parents can dance with him/her. The child does whatever they see and if you dance, the child will also.The child will be even more happy when parents dance with them .
Creativity matters a lot in early childhood development. Do not stop the creativity of the child, rather it should be given greatness. It will bring happiness to the child. “And nothing matters when happiness comes”.