Children have a incredible capacity for imagination and creativity. Everything for them is a world of magic and color, where everything is possible. It is a capacity that is being lost with the passage of time that we should not let go of. Parents can stimulate and encourage their creativity through fun games. Let's see what are the best games for children to improve creativity.
What is creativity for?
Creativity is a original thought arising from imagination, and it is fundamental for our development. We are all born with this ability but if we do not work on it we will lose it as we get older. It has a series of advantages in our life that make doing without it not an option.
The benefits of creativity are:
- Increased self-confidence.
- Improves the ability to communicate with others.
- Development of the imagination.
- Great intuition.
- Increased curiosity, resourcefulness, and restlessness.
- Improves self-esteem, independence and personal security.
- Increase enthusiasm, positivity, and innocence.
- Greater ability to create original solutions to the problems that arise.
In other words, creativity affects all areas of our life, benefiting and nurturing them. Encouraging creativity is to improve our quality of life and our emotional health. The ability to wonder, to renew ourselves, to interpret reality, to seek solutions to our problems instead of focusing on the problem goes beyond being ingenious or childish. It is more than a capacity, it is a way of living and seeing life. That is why it is so necessary to educate children through creativity. Let's see what the games for kids to enhance creativity to stimulate them while they have fun.
Games for children to improve creativity
- What is it for?. In a time frame the children have to say For what things could objects work beyond their usual function. For example a mop, its usual function is to mop the floor. Well, the children should say what it is for besides scrubbing the floor. It can be a wig, a guitar ... or whatever comes to mind.
- Who I am?. A fun role-play game for the whole family. Children must imitate the gestures, phrases, poses ... of a person or animal, and others must guess who it is.
- Words that start with. We only need a few sheets of paper, pens and a stopwatch. Participants have to choose a letter and find all the words that begin or end with that letter. The game can be complicated by asking only words from a group, such as saying only fruits, vegetables, animals ...
- Cardboard boxes. One way to stimulate their creativity is to let them recycle those boxes into other things. They can make a car, a princess house, a costume, a robot ...
- Play with play dough. In addition to stimulating your motor skills, modeling clay stimulates your creativity and ingenuity. They can create anything they imagine with their hands, mix colors and shapes to design what they want.
- Draw. Whether with waxes, tempera, chalk ... any medium is ideal for them to develop their creativity through different shapes, textures and colors.
- Do theater. Creating stories, characters, making yourself someone else is a very fun way to encourage imagination and creativity. They also have a great time doing their stories.
- Cook. Letting children cook (always with adult supervision, of course) allows them to try new experiences, textures and flavors. They experiment, learn, try new things, make mistakes and then correct them ...
- Costumes Who has not enjoyed dressing up as a thousand things as a child? It is not necessary to have anything special, with what we find at home we can make an ingenious costume. Let it stimulate your creativity and choose what you want to wear.
Because remember ... never let your inner child lose its creativity.