What can parents do to enhance their childs creativity?

Answer 1

I think the key is to expose your children to a variety of age appropriate art forms, be able to engage in casual discussions about art with your children, and have them participate in a variety of creative activities. If you can set aside time to participate in creative activities together with your children and provide positive reinforcement along the way, this is very beneficial as well. You can do simple, informal activities at home together such as learning how to bead, cook, do origami, sew, embroider, knit, or play around with some paints or pastels. You can also enroll them in something more structured, such as formal music and dance lessons. In addition, many art museums have children's programs and activities that you can enroll them in, to further stimulate children's inquisitiveness about art. Start making fun trips to art shows, gallery openings, and events, and ask your little ones what they like/dislike about a piece of art. Engage them in conversations about art and their feelings about it so that they can start to develop language skills to be able to discuss art. Even if it is something as simple as asking them to count how many times they saw a mouse (or whatever) in the paintings of a museum exhibit, you start to get them excited about art and hopefully stimulate their interest in it. If they are interested in art and find value in it, they are more likely to engage in creative acitivities developing their creative talents.

Answer 2

First: be aware of "forcing" talent from children. what I mean is you can't.

If a child is creative or analytical, it will come in its own time. If your child seems to focus on some things more than others, encourage those, but also expose them to new and different things to expand their boundaries.

parents can overwork their children by enrolling them in too many lessons. keeping it down to two or three is good

anyways, to facillitate creativity, give the child an area to work in, like a little table where they can make a mess, and it really doesn't matter.

buy some paints, stamps, stickers, pencils, or markers. Whatever your child is interested in and let them go to town.

Answer 3

Always encourage anything they do creativly. Maybe sit & color w/a youngster or read funny stories w/older kids. Go outside and make a snowman family and have child think of extras such as toy 4 kid or purse for the mommy all molded fm snow.

Answer 4

baby enstein has a great line of things to enhance the creativity also let them finger paint play with play dough and talk to them so they can express there feelings through words also play a lot of lets pretend games and ask them questions tht make them think o and expose them to other languages like dont teach them it just expose them to hearing other people speak in a way thts different to them

Answer 5

Be very careful what you say no too. Let a child express his/her creativity without boundaries.
Just remember kids like this grow up!! They are rather a handful!

Answer 6

Tell them to make up stories about the pictures in books. They can't read but they can look at the pictures and make up a story from what they see.

Also when you're waiting in line have them draw you pictures on a pad of paper.

Try making up silly songs with them, point out things that are interesting, ask them questions about what people are doing. Tell them stories yourself. Don't worry if they're weird or sound stupid, just keep talking to them and sparking ideas in their heads.

Answer 7

What I did for my son was to let him watch others do it. Some examples might be to let your child watch Sesame Street or other shows that show very young children doing things. The most important thing to remember is to let them watch children doing very simple things. In this way, they will not get frustrated with failure.

I hope that my info is of some help.

Answer 8

Introduce your kids to early forms of creative outlets....like crayons or school band. If your child seems especially interested in any one thing, then elaborate on it. If your child doesn't seem especially interested in the arts...that's ok too. Everybody is unique.

Answer 9

during the summer, my son and i play with jello and pudding out on the patio. i put a cheap plastic tablecloth down and we made pictures using the different colors. i also encourage him to draw and color and he plays with fingerpaints a lot. u can go to ur local library and look at books that have crafts ideas for kids (there are a ton!!). and don't be afraid to be silly with them...no one's gonna think you're a dork b/c you have pudding in ur hair and fingerpaint on ur shirt. if you're having fun and using ur imagination, then ur children will too.

Answer 10

Read to them. Encourage questions. Ask them questions that seek creative answers.