Developing the Creative Child

Developing the Creative Child 

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Creativity is a choice, not talent. Every child has the potential to be creative. In developmental theory, John Locke states that any child born as a new, likened to a sheet of white paper, how it later, depending on what is written on it.Thus, the potential to be a creative child who did not distinguish it male or female. Although we often hear the stereotype that distinguishes them, as boys are more interested in things that are physical or mechanical, whereas girls are more interested in the imaginative, domestic or related to parenting.Since the development of the sensory motor stage, the child may be directed to explore the surrounding environment that supports the development of creativity in order to be optimized. One way to develop a child's creativity is through drawing and coloring. Through these activities, children will be free to express. Often we see a child draw with a less obvious, such as the dots are called pictures of trees and tree coloring it red. That is called the imagination as part of creativity. We do not need to limit children by emphasizing that the image of the tree should be like, or the color of the real tree is green, because it can actually inhibit the imagination and creativity of children.In addition, through drawing and coloring, can also develop fine motor skills, as well as children can learn to recognize colors. So, in fact parents do not need to buy tools constructive expensive game to optimize creativity children, simply by providing paper and colored pencils. Encouragement from parents through compliment indicating that the work produced by the children appreciated, can support to further develop the skills of creativity.So, we need to know, graffiti and color scratches sometimes not so mean to the parents, but in early childhood development it becomes very meaningful.

Source: Bulletin ECD CHEERFUL CHILDREN UNAIR Volume II Year II