3 Jan, 2010
Fostering Creativity in Children
Posted by julie @ 10:06 am
Shelved under Being a (Special Ed) Teacher, Bits and Pieces, Challenge Yourself, Lessons in Life, Parenting, Snapshots, special education, Teaching Techniques

Play is what counts most when we want children to be creative, imaginative and be able to learn.

Play does not just entail giving them high-end toys and gadgets. Play entails a lot of self-expression, using things that are there in new and innovate ways, doing explorations and experimentation, allowing them to think openly on things that are “normal”

If you are the kind of parent who fear for your child’s safety, be there to guide them as they explore their surroundings.

  • Let them play with dirt, you can wash it off later.
  • Let them create with play-doh, you can wash their hands afterward.
  • Let them help in the kitchen, they will learn about a lot of things there. The mess can be dealt with afterward with them helping out.
  • Let them lie down on floor tiles and do floor time play with manipulatives like Lego bricks, blocks and toy cars. Let them build their own cities using materials that they made themselves.
  • Let them do arts and crafts.
  • Let them pick flowers, run after butterflies, catch bugs, dig soil and feel the leaves of the plants.
  • Let them jump on rain puddles (not flood).

In other words, let them experience the joys of how it is to be a child. It will be a joy for you too to discover how it is to be a child again :)

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6 Jan, 2010 @ 11:35 pm
Carver said:

Great post Julie. I think this is all so important for children.

7 Jan, 2010 @ 7:46 pm
smarie said:

Julie, I totally agree! As long as its supervised play on the floor, the dirt or with the water faucet, lolz, then it’s fine by me (mud fight! or maybe a mud pie) 😀 I too grew up the same way. Let them get down and dirty once in a while. Luis often goes to play in the garden with the neighbors in the afternoon, which is good -tries not to look at uber muddy dirty clothes-.

But nowadays, the past time is Psp, or xbox, wii, online computer games and such. So it’s different na for these techy generaton. Plus the fact that most of the houses in the city now does not have gardens. Not that much place for enjoying outdoors, unless you decide to bring them to a park somewhere.

21 Jul, 2013 @ 11:15 am
teacherjulie.com » Teach Your Child Crafts said:

[…] Teaching children creativity does not mean giving them photos where they have to paste colored paper cut-outs and the one who pasted the cut-outs within the line is the most artistic. […]

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