Does your kid love to create? Drawing pictures on the wallpaper, drawing patterns on the floor, laying out pasta men on the table? Do you scold him for such tricks or, on the contrary, approve of them, appreciating the inexorable striving for beauty? Psychologists still insist on encouragement. After all, ready-made creators are not born, but become! And here everything depends solely on the parents.
It is no coincidence that almost all modern methods in preschool institutions necessarily contain creative activities as part of the educational program. After all, creativity plays a very important role in the development of the baby. Almost all parents, when choosing what to do with their child, first of all think about drawing, modeling, applications. Moreover, in stores now you can find a wide variety of kits for children's creativity. But it is not enough to find an occupation for the baby - it is also necessary to maintain a special atmosphere of creativity in the family, in which the child will grow up.
Pictures on a plate
You can start with the most common household items. For example, what should the food on the plate look like? It would seem that simple and healthy baby food is not a particularly exciting sight. But in fact, after the baby fully switches to the menu of "adult" dishes, parents can turn each meal into an entertaining surprise.
The whole beauty of the process lies in making funny pictures and unusual figures from the most ordinary products present in every kitchen. But this is the main essence of creativity - to create works of art from simple, unremarkable objects.
Boiled eggs in this way turn into little animals, greens and lettuce bloom in forests and gardens, you can create fish or snake scales from slices of cucumbers or olives. Faces with different expressions are created from traditional scrambled eggs or a sandwich using slices of bread, cheese or green onions. Parents do not have to persuade the kid to eat such dishes - he will not think that he is tasty and what is not very good when he sees such a variety on the plate.
You can go beyond just creating figures, and go further. Dishes on the table can be the basis for a child's versatile development. To begin with, you can come up with a story about the characters you created on a plate. For example, we met in the forest dill (spread out on a salad) a mouse (an egg) and already (a cucumber cut into thin slices). What will they say to each other? What will they do next? After eating, invite the little one to draw these characters and come up with a continuation of the story. Thus, imagination will gradually develop, and this is the basis of any creativity.
With harmony in life
Adults can instill in a baby basic ideas about the harmony and compatibility of colors in literally any household situation. Here the kid wakes up in the morning and chooses clothes for today. Which T-shirt will we choose? Red? Good. What shorts go best with a red jersey? And what color of tights is better to choose for them?
Does the toddler help you take off your laundry after drying? Why not arrange towels and clothes according to the colors of the rainbow? For an older baby, you can offer another principle: send things with warm shades to one pile, and to another with cold ones. And by folding the towels, parents can introduce the kid to the basics of origami. Indeed, it is much easier for inept handles to handle large and soft panels than with a thin paper sheet, where it is important to make small and precise folds.
Full order
Keeping it clean is an important part of the creative process. The child should know: as soon as the lesson is over, everything must be put into place. And the issue of discipline is not the main one here. Firstly, cleaning the work surface means the end of the creative process, and even if some improvement is expected in the future, it is important to mark the end of the next stage.
And secondly, cleaning the table frees up the field for future activities: when the baby next sits down at the table, he will not be distracted by the remnants of the previous project and nothing will prevent him from concentrating on a new idea.
