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Being creative is fundamental to your child’s development. It guides your child through difficult moments, teaches them about the importance of being free to do as they choose, and helps your child in their adoption of life skills.
Many skills are explored through activities and learning enrichment found in school curriculums, but this can be further explored through activities arranged at home.
Here are some ways you can give your child’s creativity a huge boost in the right direction.
Let your child make decisions of their own
Stuck in the house all day? Struggling to find something to do? Why don’t you let your child make the decisions for you? It’s a good way of testing how well your child is doing and what they prefer to do in their spare time, and it helps them be creative with the choices they make.
Try out a range of exploratory activities
Activities or games that let your child try out a range of different things will give them the chance to find out what they enjoy and what they don’t like as much. This helps your child work out their capabilities and what they may need help with in the future. And it also allows your child to be free and happy to explore a range of different things at a given time.
Encourage open conversations
Being able to be open and free will help your child learn to explore those questions they’ve always wanted to be answered. Your child will end up asking you a lot of interesting questions in their lifetimes, like why the sky is blue or how big our universe really is.
It all gives your child the opportunity to learn a lot more about our world, and it gives them the confidence to be themselves. Let your child have open dialogue with you often to naturally boost their creativity.
