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Everyone is born with creativity. Creativity is about using imagination, originality, productivity, and problem solving to approach a situation. [1] X Source of Research Many people consider creativity not an attribute but a skill that can be built, the more you care about development, the more creative your child will be! While art is a popular way to inspire creativity in children, there are many other ways to foster creativity in children!
Steps
Contributing to Your Child’s Creativity
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Be an example. Think openly and find many solutions to problems. Show your child that you are flexible and willing to try new things. [2] X Research Resources When times are tough, show your child that you can approach problems in a variety of ways and still be okay.
- If your child asks a question, be creative in how you respond. You can work with your child to think of multiple solutions before answering the question. For example, your child might ask, “Mom, where does the rain come from?” You can think with your child: “Ah… the rain comes from the sky… what else comes from the sky? Can they come from the sky?”
- If your child asks how to draw a heart, show him or her a variety of ways to draw (like using lines, using dots, or drawing flowers in the shape of a heart), even in an organized way, ask your child what they think. come up with some drawings.
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Encourage unstructured play. [3] X Trusted Source Greater Good Magazine Go to Source Allow your child to play without setting, meaning you don’t interfere, direct or suggest. Choose toys that don’t have a specific purpose so your child can figure out different ways to play.
- Encourage activities like coloring, drawing, and building.
- Avoid or have very few cause-and-effect toys, like dummy boxes or pop-up toys.
- Don’t remind your child at play unless there are obvious conflicts.
- If your child says, “I’m tired,” arrange several toys to make up a story and let your child finish. For example, you can stack several dolls and say they go all over the world. The first stop is Prague, where will the next stop be? Where do they want to see? How long will they go and to how many countries?
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Provide space. Set aside separate areas for activities, especially those that cause clutter. Create an art space where children can paint and mess around without disturbing the whole house, or a dressing area where they can hang their clothes. During the Christmas season or when giving birthday presents, offer to donate drawing tools, musical instruments, construction toys, and clothes. [4] X Trusted Source Greater Good Magazine Go to Source
- Redefine the purpose of everything you have around the house: a tissue or a toilet paper stick can become a sword or a sailboat.
- Challenge your child to create something using common household items like paper, wrapping paper, and wrapping tubes.
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Develop ideas. Spend time brainstorming ideas to solve problems, create new activities, or create new objects. Don’t criticize, judge, or talk about what’s reasonable, but encourage the flow of ideas. Don’t choose the “best” idea. Focus on the ideation process rather than the outcome or evaluation. [5] X Trusted Source Greater Good Magazine Go to Source
- When something is missing (like you need to reach for something but don’t have a ladder), ask your child to think of a way to solve the problem.
- Read the short story to the climax and then stop. Now ask your child what will happen next and how they will solve the problem.
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Encourage mistakes and failures. [6] X Research Source Children who are afraid of failure or making mistakes can create barriers for themselves in the creative process. [7] X Trusted Source Greater Good Magazine Go to Source Children may also be afraid of judging their own work or that of others. Share your failure with your child and emphasize that it’s okay and he learns from failure.
- Practice coloring outside the line with your child, applying blue or purple to the skin, or doing silly things to show your child that it’s okay to do weird things.
- If your child is upset about making a mistake, find creative alternatives to correct it. If your child tears a page in a coloring book, fix it with stickers, or draw around the tear to match the picture in the book.
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Ask open-ended questions. Some parents find themselves caught up in closed-ended questions, like, “Isn’t that a beautiful flower, baby?” or “It would be fun, right?” Instead of asking such questions, ask open-ended questions to create opportunities for creativity. [8] X Research Sources You can also let your child respond creatively.
- You might say, “Which flower do you like, and why?” or “What do you think would be fun?”
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Limit screen time. Limit the amount of time you watch TV or look at screens such as phones, computers or tablets because watching too much can lead to obesity, distraction, emotional disturbances and trouble sleeping. [9] X Research Resources Instead, encourage activities such as reading, listening to music, drawing or drama. [10] X Trusted Source Greater Good Magazine Go to Source
- Set a timer when your kids watch TV or use a tablet or phone so they know that when the timer rings, the watch time is over.
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Focus on the process instead of the end result. Too much encouragement or coercion can affect creativity, causing children to try to guess what they need instead of discovering on their own. [11] X Trusted Source Greater Good Magazine Go to Source
- Instead of giving compliments like “you did well!” or “you draw so well!”, praise your child’s efforts. Say, “I can tell you worked hard.” or “Wow, you used a lot of colors in the picture. It looks so brilliant!”
Nurturing Your Child’s Creativity
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Solve problems in different ways. Ask your child a problem and ask for it to be solved. Then ask your child to deal with it differently. Focus on the process instead of the end result. Encourage multiple solutions to the same problem and multiple paths to a solution. [12] X Trusted Source Greater Good Magazine Go to Source
- Ask your child to create a house, but don’t make it explicit and tell them they can build anything they want. If your child can’t do it, tell her she can draw a house, build a house out of ice cream sticks or cardboard boxes. Encourage your child to create a home in a variety of ways, including making a dog house or a dollhouse or a house for a friendly demon.
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Allow children to explore their interests. Maybe you really want your child to learn piano or ballet, but let them choose activities they enjoy. [13] X Trusted Source Greater Good Magazine Go to Source The more freedom Children have in activities, the more flexible their thinking is.
- Your child is naturally drawn to activities they find enjoyable. Encourage exploration of those activities.
- Activities that can help inspire creativity include: music, dance, drawing, sculpting, coloring.
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Enroll your child in creative activities. Take your child to classes that teach drawing, dance, sculpture, or pottery. The arts are especially beneficial for children because they help develop and express their developing personality. [14] X Source of Research Choose activities that allow children to learn basic skills but complement their creativity.
- Find these classes at a community center, recreation area, or private classroom.
- Allow your child to be creative on their own as well as collaborate with other children.
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Connect your child creatively with other classmates. Learning with other children can be fun and educational. [15] X Research Resources Find clubs or extracurricular activities for kids that allow children to play and create together. Children who play together and express their creativity with other children can come up with many interesting ideas and make them learn a lot.
- Children can create dances, songs or science projects or workable objects like boats.
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Encourage multi-sensory learning. The more senses used in activities the better. [16] X Research Source Use movement, sound, texture, taste, and visual information. You can also turn on music for the background. One of the ways to learn multi-sensory is to learn to sing with movement or learn to dance, or create your own movements.
- Play with clay. You can choose multicolored clay with different textures. Practice naming the sounds clay makes when it is smashed and notice their smell.
- If your child participates in an activity with very few senses, imagine other senses. You can ask questions about the senses, like: “What sound do you think would be made?”
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Make sure not to falsify your child’s assumptions unless it’s absolutely necessary. If your child says that wind is created by trees, let them know that may be true, and ask what makes them think so. By allowing children to develop their hypothesis, they can explore creativity! However, be careful not to make your child think that their odd (and incorrect) assumption is a fact; Please indicate that it is possible.
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Encourage all ideas and comments in a positive way. Feedback is positive and above all, encourages your child to be creative. If you think, “That will never happen” or “that idea will never work,” keep those thoughts to yourself and praise your child for thinking creatively.
- If your child wants to create a spaceship to fly to the moon, encourage the project and don’t say, “It’s impossible.” Help your child choose materials to build a ship and encourage them to think of other ways to go to the moon.
- If you find it difficult to critique your child’s ideas, say: “That’s an interesting approach” or “I never thought of that.”
Encourage Decision Making
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Create interesting choices for your child. Good decision-making skills can also help inspire creativity in your child. When your child needs to make a decision, try offering a few interesting options and ask him to compare the pros and cons of each. [17] X Research Source
- For example, if your child wants a treat at the supermarket, you can encourage him to choose from three healthy options like an oat bar, a bag of dried fruit, and a box of yogurt topped with. nuts.
- Offering good ideas to choose from will ensure your child makes good choices while still allowing them to imagine the good and bad sides of each option. This process can help your child develop creativity.
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Guide your child when making difficult decisions. Encouraging children to see problems from different angles can also develop creativity. If your child has to make a difficult decision, try sitting down with her and talking about the decision. Encourage your child to consider each option, assessing the pros and cons of those options. [18] X Research Sources
- Don’t make decisions for your child, just help them make the best choices by talking about them together and asking questions that encourage critical thinking. For example, you might ask, “What do you think the outcome of such a decision would be?” And, “What is the benefit of this option over other options?”
- You may also want to sit down with your child again after a decision has been made and talk about how it turned out not to be what he thought it was and whether he still thinks it’s the best option. For example, you could ask, “Now that you know, do you still make the same decisions? Why yes or no?”
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Use hypothetical examples. Putting your child in hypothetical dilemmas can be a great way to help them develop decision-making skills while also fostering creativity. You can encourage your child to examine the different possible decisions, weigh the potential outcomes, and decide what to choose. [19] X Research Source
- For example, you can ask your child to imagine what he would do if his friend cheated on a test. Should the child tell her about the friend? Facing you about cheating? Or say nothing?
- Encourage children to consider the pros and cons of each hypothetical option. For example, if you tell her, what is the positive point? What is the negative point?
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Allow children to learn from bad decisions. You may want to intervene every time your child makes or is about to make a mistake, but he won’t learn if you do. Instead, try to hold back and let your child make his own mistakes. [20] X Research Resources What your child learns from experience will provide valuable lessons about decision-making and help inspire creativity.
- For example, if your child decides to use his free time after school at school to play video games instead of solving difficult homework, don’t interfere. Let your child handle the consequences of that decision on their own.
Advice
- Always tell your child that every problem has multiple solutions.
- The difficulty emerges the wisdom; Keep this in mind when you forget an ingredient or are missing a photo in your collage.
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This article was co-written by Tasha Rube, LMSW. Tasha Rube is a licensed social worker in Missouri. She received her MSW degree from the University of Missouri in 2014.
There are 8 references cited in this article that you can see at the bottom of the page.
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