Ideas to develop children's creativity
Each one of our children already counts with everything necessary to be born from the moment of birth. develop great creativity. Simply, and for example, we have eyes to look at, hands to touch and reach objects and an insatiable curiosity that mobilizes our creative spirit. With this baggage and with an incipient intellective capacity from 6-7 years, our children can develop their creative capacity.
When our children ask, they simply ask for explanations for what we accept without questioning it; they exercise in their own way the same independence as the great scientists and inventors.
Being able to see the new in every day is a very important aspect of the creativity. Who is able to say a new adjective on the table in front of us?
The work of parents in children's creativity
Our work as parents is important to help develop this creative capacity that routine, comfort or an environment lacking in stimuli can bury. Society needs creative people and at this age we can help them a lot. Creative children need an environment in which they feel protected and loved.
Tips to help children develop their creative ability
1. Creative people tend not to accept the common way of seeing things. That is why they can be encouraged to see what surrounds them with different eyes: why television works, how airplanes fly, what has surprised them of what they learned in a lesson.
2. An error can become a way of learning and being creative. It does not matter that you make a mistake, for example, when fixing your bike, when posing a math problem, if this shows your independence and your initiative.
3. It favors new alternatives: a hobby or sport different from the usual, a way of dressing ...
4. You do not have to reward or punish only the notes in mathematics, because his drawing ability may be more significant.
5. Regarding the jobs that send the school, we must encourage them to be creative and not copy, with a single mouse click, a text from the encyclopedia. They can, for example, put themselves in the shoes of some historical figure or make a collage.
6. Give them enough time for creative thinking. In our "fast" society it means "ready", but the creative thinker takes time, so the stress of changing activity at all costs may not favor you.
We also have to make an effort to prepare creative tasks, that is, not to be satisfied with the typical afternoon of Burger and cinema, even if it is a very familiar activity. Collecting, planetariums, excursions, storytelling, theater ... can be very stimulating activities.
Famous quotes full of creativity
- Almost all really new ideas have a certain air of nonsense when they are expressed for the first time (A.N. Whitehead).
- When I think of myself and my methods of reasoning, I come to the conclusion that for me it has meant more the gift of fantasy than the talent in the use of other knowledge. (Einstein)
- The authentically creative has no teacher. He must be allowed to follow his path. (Goethe).
- Genius is the ability to put into practice what is in the mind. (F. Scott Fitzgerald).
- If the intellect examines with too much attention the ideas that come flooding, it hinders the creative work of the mind. (Schiller).
- Ideas ignite one another like electric sparks. (Johan J. Engel).
- All important scientific progress is born of a boldness of the imagination. (John Dewey)
- New opinions are always frowned upon and generally attacked for no other reason than not yet common. (Locke)
- The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference between those who look at it. (Emerson)
- There are people so full of common sense that they do not have the smallest corner for their own sense. (Cervantes).
Creative people must be able to take a risk, without being gripped by the fear of being wrong
Marisol Nuevo Espín
