These 5 Tips To Promote Kids’ Creativity will help engage kids’ creative sides (as well as help you cheer lead them to be life long creators). Why should parents promote creativity in kids? Well, it’s creative (which allows you to be productive and artistic — both at the same time). It requires focus (short spurts or longer times). It encourages kids to make decisions (which colour – red or blue?). Here are my 5 Tips To Promote Kids’ Creativity…
5 Tips To Promote Kids’ Creativity
- Put out an invitation to be creative. Think: art caddy filled with crayons and paper on the kitchen table. Passing your phone to your child so he/she can take pictures. Making a date to go to a pottery studio. Creativity starts with opportunity. The more creative opportunities your child has…the more inclined they will be to do creative things.
- Make creating a celebration with friends. Think: pottery painting birthday party for your child at Crock A Doodle! Interactive, safe, and so much fun; kids of all ages will enjoy getting creative and a bit messy in their hands-on pottery activities. Bonus: you don’t have to clean up!
- Don’t limit creativity. Hold back your opinion on what colours your child chooses or how abstract their design may be….part of being creative is decision-making (and we too often snow plow our kids’ decisions). Instead of creating a box for your child to work within…encourage them to think outside the box! Discover. Explore. Create.
- Creativity isn’t just for kindergarten. As our kids’ grow…we often put aside the arts n’ crafts supplies. However, the increased interest grown-up colouring books proves creativity goes well beyond kindergarten. Tweens and teens should be encouraged to get creative (solo or in a group) as it provides a great opportunity for self-expression and stress relief.
- Integrate creativity at home and on vacation. I was so happy we visited CROCK A DOODLE, BLUE MOUNTAIN, when we visited from Toronto for a weekend…not only was it a fun creative opportunity for the kids…it created keepsakes I still have (and every time I look at them — I think of that staycation weekend). Also, I am super happy that the Crock A Doodle staff encouraged me to get my son’s hand print on a mug…it is the only hand print item we have (of any of the kids)!
Think about ways you can promote your kids’ creativity this summer and all year long!
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Those are great tips thanks for sharing
I think even gardening can get a kids creativity going…I mean, have you seen pinterest? fairy gardens and climbing cucumbers, upsidedown tomatoes….. LIKE WOW
Thanks for the tips!! I try and get the kids to be creative when ever I can. Great for building their imagination. 🙂
Croc a Doodle sounds like so much fun! My kids would love it there.
Thank you for this post. I definitely want to get involved in more creative activities this summer with my kids. I love your tip that creativity isn’t just for kindergarten. Everyone can get involved in creative activities.
I have always promoted creativity with my daughter. We have had a craft room on both our last two houses. I love to see her still in there and making something wonderful!
We have a similar place like this out by us and we love to go there! It is fun to unplug the family and just be creative.
Croc a Doodle seems like such a fun place! Definitely somewhere I should take my nieces to one day – they love being creative and always want to be hands-on with crafts and art.
You should check out Crock a Doodle – I recommend!
Sounds awesome, thanks for the tips
I think these are wonderful tips. I love getting my girls to get creative. It’s such a great way for them all to express themselves.
May I also suggest promoting free play in your household, outside and with friends. I find if you allow kids some unstructured play time, they will find creative ways to be imaginative.
LOVE THIS! Yes, free play is so important to foster creativity
I love places like this! We have one down the street from us and I can’t wait til the girls are a bit older and ready to try to make a piece of their own!
My daughter loves to be creative. I am definitely going to have to check out this Croc a doodle. She loves painting and drawing.
My kids are very creative and love working with their hands. At birthday parties we make some sort of neat craft instead of a treat bag and the kids are always so proud.
We are a very creative family. I always let the kids imagination lead them in creative activities.
It is so important for kids to have a creative outlet. I loved to watch and see what they would create.
totally agree
We have something similar here and I love the opportunity to sit down together and be creative. It’s good they see us as parents being creative too.
We are pretty big crafters here and put a lot of importance on creativity. These are great ideas for keeping the fun alive.
Great ideas, thanks for sharing. There’s a pottery shop near my daughter’s where they often go with their children to use their imagination – I got a lovely cup that they had decorated for me. 🙂
We recently went to a birthday party like this. My kids had so much fun and they keep begging to go back. Such a fun way to be artistic!
The projects we’ve made in places like that are STILL used in our house. They’re my favorite pieces!
I wish we had a crock a doodle here! This looks like t would be such a fun place to take the kids. I agree that creativity needs to be fostered, allowing your mind to just create is a wonderful thing.
I love getting creative with the grandkids and these will be so much fun
Thanks for the great tips.The things that the kids create become so precious to me and I love the memories of doing things together.
Great tips and we really need to find ways to keep kids creative and off their phones and computers
It’s all about balance
Thank you for the great tips. You are right about not limiting colour choices. Kids make incredibly creative colour choices and combinations.
Great tips! I agree that we can’t limit creativity. Creativity also comes by showing different aptitudes.
love this! we cannot lose the art of creativity!!
Such a great post with wonderful tips. I am not a creative person but that does not mean i want to limit my daughter from be and having fun through different art projects. we just started trying new things through paint, crayons and yes sparkles 🙂
Well the time of year is just around the corner when craft time started in our home.Thanks for all the great ideas !