CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

Creative Activities for Young Children

Creative Activities for Young Children

Creative Activities

First of all we have to define what we mean by “Creativity”. Creativity (from Lat. Creatio - creation) - the creative ability of the individual, characterized by a readiness to produce fundamentally new ideas and part of the structure of giftedness as an independent factor. According to P. Torrence, creativity involves sensitivity to the problems of deficit or contradictory knowledge of the definition of these problems, to find their decisions based on the nomination of hypotheses to test hypotheses and to change, to formulate the result of the decision. 

The activities to develop creativity are a good choice to encourage your child to do something new every day. The activity must focus on the creative process, not the final product or anything you want it done. In other words, what the child does the activity will be good, if the project is not complete as it should not matter. Instead of focusing on only praise for doing something nice, encourage your child to use and combine materials in new and original ways. Here are some ideas of activities to do with the products you can find at home.

Creative Activities

CE230 Creative Activities for Young Children Final Project

Activity # 1:

Educational fun exercises like puzzle solving

Source:

External

Age(s):

6 wks-1 yr

ages 2-4

ages 5-7

ages 8-10

ages 10-12

Time Required:

Objectives:

After completing this activity children will be able to improve his mental strength. From these exercises a children will learn how to face different situation and how to find solutions of different problems.

Materials/Equipment:

Educational video games, puzzles, odd man out exercises etc

Highlight (all) Related Developmental Area(s):

Drama

Creative Play

Art

Music

Movement

Individual

Small Group

Large Group

Cognitive

Linguistic

Physical

Sensory motor

Social-emotional

Procedure:

For example: let's consider different math solving exercises. Math can be fun.  No, really, it can.  Here are some tips for helping your kids have fun with math.

Together, play Score Four, Monopoly Jr., or other board games that involve counting.

Together, play card games that involve counting.

Together, watch sports, calculate sports statistics, and compare them with what is on your TV screen.

Make a game out of counting things in your kids' environment. How many toy trucks do they have? How many teeth? Then, build on this exercise with basic math. If you are four years old now, how old will you be when you are three years older than you are today? If you have 24 kids in your class and two kids move away, how many kids will you have left in your class? If the Johnsons have ...