Your child’s creativity starts with their method of thinking and problem-solving.
You can help develop your child’s creativity with daily challenges that expand their reasoning and understanding of the world.
Here are some tips to develop your child’s creativity:
1. Allow your child to make simple choices
This encourages them to think independently, exercising an important aspect of creativity.
2. Encourage independence from caregivers and media
A child who is constantly entertained by others or the television may struggle to find things to do on their own without access to media.
3. Provide items in your child’s environment to stimulate their imagination
Drawing supplies, blocks, books, and random craft supplies can all contribute to elaborate dramatic play schemes.
4. Brainstorm different uses for items with your child
For instance, a cardboard tube can be a telescope, tower, or person. Validate all of your child’s ideas, praising him or her for such an impressive imagination.
5. Ask your child open-ended questions to develop their creativity and stretch their understanding
Involve your child in figuring out ways to make an improvement upon something. Ask questions like, “How can we clean up the living room faster?” “How could we get water to the flowers without spilling any?” “What could we do to make the ball bounce higher?”
6. Play with your child
Work together to establish dramatic play scenarios, using substitute items for props when needed. Dramatic play allows for children to imagine life from a different perspective, an important building block of creativity.
7. Engage in story telling
Start a story and take turns building upon it. Follow your child’s lead in what the mood of the story should be. Expect most stories to be more on the silly, impossible side. Since this is just a story, no idea is too far-fetched.
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