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Kaufman and Beghetto (2014) further suggest that creativity can be fostered in children to a certain extent by providing them with opportunities to express their own unique ideas.

You as parents (including children) can see how we have activities targeting their creativity with a lot of open end material and natural nature’s material through intentional teaching; children are given open end material to come up with their own imagination and develop new ideas. Our activities are spread over the whole day, giving children time to think and enjoy the activity. They are encouraged

Creative development allows children to be creative using various different resources and materials. By encouraging creativity through play, make sure children have a wide range of materials to work with that are age appropriate; for example, paints, pencils, markers, play dough, buttons and pasta. Using a different variety of textures will enable children to explore sensory materials as well as art materials. Creativity through music is great way to allow children to respond to a range of music and sounds; they love to jump up and down to music. Children should be provided with resources so they can make their own music for example, shakers, rattles anything that can let children create their own music and sounds. Providing a setting with

Although she noted children’s need of leisure time and the misuse of time, she missed the importance of learning and the benefits of a social life. As a result, I believe Children should have prior knowledge throughout their life to have creative thoughts. Quindlen conveys in her essay that one cannot become creative without lots

Children have the freedom to pursue new ideas using the tools provided. It contains a variety of activities which allows children to develop new skills. These activities

Creativity outperforms good grades and high IQ’s. There is a place for creativity in all domains of life.

Every child is different and they are gifted in one way or another. Every child learns differently because each child has different experiences. The creative arts are a powerful learning tool. They engage children’s senses in open-ended play and support the development of cognitive, social-emotional and multisensory skills. They activate the spatial domain, stimulate the senses and improve well-being. They are a creative playground for the growing mind. Young children need to use the power of the arts to express their ideas and knowledge and to respond to their experiences.

The use of creative activities provide children opportunities to relate to ‘the self’ and to reflect; the encouragement to discuss what they are expressing, according to Vygotsky (1962), is vital in learning and developing within the social environment where they are constantly problem solving. Verbalisation of their ideas enables children to begin self-directed

Creativity is the ability to reconfigure what you know, often in the light of new information and come up with an original concept or idea. In order to be creative, a person must be critical, selective and generally intelligent.

Ken Robinson video: Ken Robinson in his video said that creativity now is as important in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. Today in public education we tend to tell the children to sit and be quiet. That’s difficult for many children. Kids are born to be creative people. However, in education we tend to squash that. It’s because education systems are designed for the industrial world and university knowledge systems. Certain subjects like math, science, reading, writing ( not that they are more important than others) are ranked higher than music, art, and dance because of their usefulness to the industrial world. What Ken Robinson said is that we need to foster not only the academic side of children, but the

The two paragraphs describe how to help children produce more creativity when playing. Creativity is very impotant in a childs life becouse it introduces them to making there own educated decisions when it comes to basic life problems.

What is the point of being a kid when all you have is structured activities and assignments? It is very crucial for children now-a-days to be able to express themselves for who they are and who they want to become. Creative activities provides what children need for finding out who they are and to develope skills that organized activities do not provide. Creative activities also creates a strong social connection that structured activities fail to provide. Children need to be able to have time during their day to spend having creative fun and creative activities.

Second, a childs imagination is key part in the way they will think as an adult. Article one supports the idea that children who are alotted creative

On one hand when children engage in creative play they use thier imagination,they take everyday items and turn them into something else. They become independent thinkers, they learn how to express themseves, and how to interact with other children. They design beautiful art or make innovative machines.

According to Campbell and Jane (2012), “The generative and evaluative modes associated with creativity help children to understand their own creative thinking and decision-making, facilitating their learning.” (p. 2). I agree with this observation because I do believe that allowing children to expand in their creative thinking will allow them to make decisions on their own. Technology even helps them more because they are given software’s that allows them to show their creative thinking and decision making. The authors emphasize how children feel more motivated during technological activities and discuss how the language of the children improves with the use of technology. For example, they are able to download applications that provide them with speaking and listening skills. Furthermore, they could also use applications that allows them to learn other languages, which expand their knowledge. Their research revealed how some factors such as beliefs, attitudes, expectations, emotions, and motivation in the learning process, can help the learning experiences connect students to be more creative and analytic. In this study, the authors demonstrated that children are more engaged when they are taught by means of technology (Campbell, 2012).