Creation is the basis of survival

Why is it necessary to teach a child to create?

The creator dreams more and realizes his dreams, and does not ask, and this is probably the main reason why this should be taught. As an adult, your child will not be an ordinary man in the street, consuming cheap prototypes of reality, but will become the creator of his own desires.

 

Creation is an active process of endless self-improvement based on creative pulsations of inspiration and impulses of interest, and this cannot be acquired artificially. © Nazarevich V.V.

The model of creation is increasingly becoming the optimal model for the personal mental development of a child. In the process of creative creation, the child will be able to draw emotional enrichment on his own without any extra help, without expecting a constant import of a sense of joy or pleasure, interest and other important components of mental well-being. What gives us the opportunity to assume and is the fundamental principle of a self-sufficient personality.

In other words, we can say that creativity gives courage to live and a creative child is able to move forward relying on the internal fuel of creative creation.

22 Great Tips for Developing Your Child’s Creativity

Consider several ways to teach a child to create:

1. Give permanent choice

2. Create conditions for analysis

3. Offer alternatives and variety of reality

4. Form a developing environment

5. Record manifestations of primary interest

6. Designate tasks with a possible creative solution

7. Organize search situations

8. Create unusual conditions for solving ordinary problems

9. Positively evaluate and accept all attempts at creation

10. Give rights to mistakes and approve their correction

11. Initiate any creative expression of the child

12. Help to realize complex plans of the child

13. Show and demonstrate your own passion for the process of creation

14. Show different forms of creative activity

15. Try to explore alternative forms of self-expression of the child’s creative initiatives

16. Provide creative freedom in any kind of art

17. Gradually expand the child’s ideas about the possible universal experience of creation (the wonders of the world were also created by people)

18. Believe in the child and his strength, do not kill creativity with doubts

19. Teach your child to recognize their true desires and distinguish them from others

20. To teach the child to contemplate what others have created, to accept the creations of others

21. Give time for reflection and inspiration, do not require constant action.

22. Learn to look for creativity in the ordinary, in the simple – the makings of the complex, in the ordinary – a little unusual, in the real – the origins of fantasy.

And then your child, completely imperceptibly for you, will become a creator, and … I really believe, even a great creator of his own life. After all, only by creating we fully accept the rules of the game in life …

 

©Victoria Nazarevich, Advice from an art therapist