Teach your child crafts and develop his/her imagination and creativity.
Teaching the “arts” with children is not about giving them crayons and photos to color “within the lines”.
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.
No, to these activities I say a big NO.
Give the child an empty paper, different materials that he/can use and you will be surprised how creative the “artworks” turn up. There are, no doubt, children who can create mini-masterpieces once they are not confined to just coloring within the lines. There is no doubt too, that there are children born with an eye for colors and details, an ear for the perfect pitch and a way with words that seem to surpass the young age.
Do not concern yourself so much with “neatness” because there are those who see beauty in a variety of materials available. If you want your place to be neat and orderly and are ruled by too many restrictions, you tend to be less creative.
Teach your child crafts if you think painted photos do not present any values.
Crafts are wonderful ways to teach children about using materials that are otherwise deemed as junk. Craft products like bags, notepads, wind chimes, paper houses, Christmas tree decorations, gift cards, even personalized wholesale envelope printing are not just usable but can help them earn a bit for themselves.
If you and your child are busy the whole week, take time out for a weekend to do crafting.
Crafting has a lot of benefits and a few are the following:
- you save money by recycling materials you would otherwise consider as trash
- you develop your imagination and create new products out of the old ones
- you unleash your creativity
- you become a good problem solver
- you become a good planner and organizer
- you earn money when people start noticing the things you create
You can give these crafts as gifts too and make people feel good knowing that these were made by your own hands.
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