WAYS TO FOSTER CREATIVITY
Do you want your child to be a creative thinker? Do you want to increase your child’s mental well-being? Then do the following. 🙂
Guidelines
  • Create a climate that encourages children to feel creative.
  • Remember, process is more important than product.
  • Encourage choice to foster creativity.
  • Offer support when needed, but interfere as little as possible.
  • Provide variety in creative activities.
  • Make sure your child has unstructured time to do this.
Help your child be creative through art, blocks, and pretend play.
Art activities:
  • Paintbrush painting
  • Finger painting
  • Drawing
  • Dough play
  • Collage making
  • Dancing
  • Puppet Play
Children’s Play
  • Block play or other open-ended material play
  • Pretend Play
REFERENCE
Hendrick, J., & Weissman, P. (2011). Total learning: Developmental curriculum
for the young child (Eighth ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
(Original work published 1994)