Giving your time, materials and space to be creative is very important. Simple materials can stimulate your child’s imagination and encourage unstructured play. Books, CDs, drawing materials, sound makers, play dough and wooden blocks are all good examples.
Creative activities that help child development.
Visual art and construction:
You don’t always need to give your child new play materials. Using everyday objects, and making it up as you go along, is a great way to encourage creative development.
✨Use an empty cardboard box to make a house, a robot, a truck, and an animal-whatever your child is keen on. You could cut up the box, glue things onto it or paint it.
✨Use empty toilet rolls or small plastic juice bottles to make a family. Draw on faces, stick on paper clothes, and use cotton wool for hair. Your child could use these new toys to make up stories.
Make use of found and natural material. For example, in autumn collect fallen leaves for drawing, pasting onto paper or dipping into paint.
✨Use small plastic lids, patty pan cases and other ‘threadbare’ to make jewelry.
Keep a ‘busy box’ with things like string and colored paper, empty food containers and plastic cups.
Drama:
Instead of throwing out old clothes, start a dress-up box or bag for dramatic play. Shops are also a great source of cheap and unusual clothes and props. Every now and then, you could surprise your child by putting a new things into the bag.
Use dramatic play, song and movement to act out things from daily life. It could be doctors, mothers, fathers, shopkeepers, and firefighters-whatever your child likes. You might be amazed by how your child sees the people and events in your life.
At story time, encourage your child to act out roles from a story with movements or sounds. For example, your child could pretend to be one of the monsters from where the wild things are. Using movement and role play to respond to the story helps your child develop communication skills and understand things in the real world.
Music, movement and dance:
Take a saucepan with its lid and a wooden spoon-your child has got a drum kit.
Act like animals, your child might enjoy moving like animal and making animals sounds.
Help your child develop a sense of rhythm with songs, chants and rhymes like ‘itsy bitsy spider’, ‘head and shoulders’, ‘five cheeky monkeys’, and ‘jack and Jill’.
Encourage your child to march, stomp, hop, slide and twirl. Watching your child’s progress with jumping and dancing can tell you how your child’s body awareness and control are developing.
Messy play:
Messy play contributes enormously to the development of a child’s cognitive and creative abilities. It allows a child to explore their senses by providing the opportunity to pour, mix, and squeeze materials not normally available to them. Also, not having to produce something in particular, leaves a child free to explore all sorts of possibilities. It taps into a child’s curiosity about the world around them and feeds their irresistible urge to try new things out and experiment.
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