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 
• Encouraging choices fosters 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)