Imagination is the ability to form in your mind an image of what you could not see or experience, it is the ability to think about unknown things. Every child is born with a creative streak. If parents develop children's fantasies, and do not stop them in the bud, a creative genius can come out of the baby in the future. Unfortunately, many mothers and fathers on an unconscious level are opposed to the creation of "fairy tales", believing that children will have a distorted view of reality.

Children understand the difference between fiction and reality

But, according to psychologists, most children already at the age of three are perfectly aware of the differences between real and fictional. Toddlers realize that purple cows, like purple milk, do not exist. However, when they come up with funny stories, they experience the joy of the process itself. Let kids use their imagination to exercise their creativity! Don't be afraid to encourage fantasy, it doesn't form a distorted view of reality. Children love to play, but in the game mode, the line between fiction and reality is erased.

Why is imagination more important than knowledge?

Albert Einstein argued that imagination is more important than knowledge. This is the key to limitless possibilities. The craving for creativity and the desire to invent must be encouraged from an early age. Children receive intellectual development and learn the world through games. Colored crayons, paints, pencils and felt-tip pens allow you to express your thoughts non-verbally. Words or descriptions are responsible for the verbal component.

During creative play, children learn to manipulate various materials. Sometimes a drawing is born spontaneously, sometimes a concept is planned in advance. If children develop creative thinking in a group, they learn to interact with each other, compare works, share experiences, compete for the title of the best artist, poet, musician or sculptor. Creative searches and experiments force schoolchildren to try on different roles, to look for their place in life.

It helps to master the school curriculum

You can also approach the study of school subjects outside the box. For example, younger students learn to count and calculate using bright multi-colored cubes. Using sheets of colored paper and cardboard, they develop spatial imagination. Dolls or plush toys help to learn a foreign language. Plasticine develops fine motor skills hands, and experiments with mixing colors make it possible, using only four basic colors, to get the entire rainbow spectrum on paper.

The creative education of a child is not limited to the development of artistic abilities and the development of school subjects. When a baby, dressed in rubber boots, slowly crosses a puddle, he imagines himself to be a huge sailboat. When he spreads his arms to the sides and starts running, making the characteristic sound of a running engine, he imagines himself to be an airplane.

cognitive development

Imagination promotes cognitive and social development baby. And if parents want to maximize the social and emotional potential of the crumbs, it is necessary to instill in him the skills of critical thinking. We are talking about a method by which you can find alternative ways to solve any problem. If fantasy is poorly developed, it keeps the baby within certain limits. On the other hand, imagination allows the child to independently find solutions, which, in turn, significantly increases his self-esteem and self-confidence. As you can see, creativity has a beneficial effect on various aspects of life. There is no doubt that a creative streak will help your child in adult life. Next, we will introduce you to some recommendations for developing the creative potential of the child.

Spend time outdoors

Child development receives limitless opportunities in conditions environment. The kid sees how the seasons succeed each other. The hot summer is replaced by a bright and juicy autumn. The gifts of nature provide the widest opportunities for creativity. Every time you go to the park for a walk, collect materials for future crafts. It can be beautiful leaves, flowers, cones, acorns and much more. Nature is constantly changing and provides unique opportunities for observation and countless discoveries. The world around encourages children to think, ask questions and make assumptions. Going out into the street, with the help of improvised materials, children draw patterns in the sand or build beautiful fairy-tale castles.

Various scenarios

When girls or boys come up with different game scenarios, they try on many different roles, develop social and speech skills. That's why parents should encourage play at the hospital, at school, at mother daughters, at the store, and more. Let's say that you went out of town and did not take real toys with you. The inquisitive mind of the kids will tell them that dolls can be easily built from straw or a sock, and tinkering Stuffed Toys can be made of cotton wool, buttons and fabric.

verbal activity

It is possible to develop a creative vein with the help of verbal activity. Association games, riddles, charades, rhyming, and any other oral interactive activities are well suited for this. All these techniques develop vocabulary well and help the child master phonetics. And verbal games are a great pastime while riding in a car.

Encouragement of self-expression

Open questions

Encourage the development of creative thinking through open-ended or leading questions. Ask your child, "What happens if all the cows turn purple?" Or: “What is the difference between a dog and a cat?” Invite the baby to compose a fascinating story on the topic you set. Do not limit your imagination, but do not forget about the time for creative pauses.

I stopped noticing something particularly interesting in forums, blogs, articles and interviews that would be suitable for translation and publication on my blog. I passed the increased interest in technical particulars, and the history of this interest is reflected in my posts - about what my head ached at every moment of development, I roughly translated it. Of course, brighter articles have now appeared on previously raised issues, but those topics are no longer so close to me, I somehow rejected them inside myself, chewed them. With residual curiosity, I do not shy away from them and keep an eye on them when I come across them, but this is already passive monitoring, as a rule, I don’t finish reading anything. For those who are interested in the technical issues of the game - and those readers, judging by the statistics of visits to the blog most of all - it would be useful to recall the existence of Graham Fitch's blog. For him, I often meet very warm reviews on the forums, and I myself translated several of his posts with pleasure. He, yes Chang, yes Bernard - that's the whole Internet team at a minimum, which can be studied by an inquisitive mind at the very beginning. With regard to the psychology of the game, “bulletproof musician” seemed quite sufficient to me. It was these people who did their job well, without water and narcissism. IMHO. I'm subjective, I'm only talking about my experience of reading the Internet.

Of course, I came across a lot of other interesting people, but their contribution was still incommensurable in terms of the volume of available and useful material. A lot of just empty chatter, after which there is no dry residue. And unfortunately, it must be admitted that there is little to be found in Russian. Undoubtedly, I came across several extremely useful books by such authors as Neuhaus, Hoffmann, Savshinsky, Schmidt-Shklovskaya, and others, but these are all books by masters of the last century, the Soviet era. I have not seen anything digestible in Russian for adult amateurs concerned with the issues of playing technique on the Internet of the 21st century. A bunch of some courses, YouTube videos, but somehow completely from other weight (mental) categories. Not necessarily lower categories, Arkadiev's lectures, for example, on Bach are simply higher, and therefore seem abstruse for my level. (By the way, the other day he announced his new book, maybe it will be more accessible for beginners to understand). So learn people English language if you want to learn on your own and at the same time use the most effective world educational material, including the opportunity to discuss your narrow issues with someone. Yes, it already seems to me that there is no business at all - learning to read in English - not at all! Bernard, he says, mastered the language (reading, writing, speaking) in three months, and here you only need to learn to read. I think you can do it in a year if you start from scratch. If you can’t learn English, then the question arises, why do you think that then you will succeed with the piano? The discipline of piano teaching is much more difficult than the discipline of learning to read a foreign language.

Per Lately I liked YouTube videos like interviews with Seymour Bernstein , 4-part movie with discussions by Bill Evans, interview with Miles Davis. Here it is all first-hand, without any retelling, everything is to the point, but there is absolutely no way to translate all this for the blog. Too costly. And again, everything just mentioned does not concern purely technical methods of the game, but more of a philosophical plan. This is interesting to me, but not the fact that these conversations are so exciting for others.

At this stage, I have an interest in the holistic aspects of learning, i.e. to the whole integrity of embedding learning to play in life. At the same time, many smart and interesting things on the Internet from other areas than music begin to seem to me to have something to do with my piano lessons. Because it's like life, and the patterns are common. In order to improve my game, I am now more concerned about how to get into the right psychological state, what kind of internal relationships to build, and, therefore, how to perceive the surrounding (and internal!) Reality, rather than something technical. Because it is in this that I see the possibility of a further qualitative leap in the game for myself.

And for an example of holistic reasoning about learning, I offer below a translation of a recent article from the New York Times How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off with minor cuts. With some imagination, one can imagine that we are not necessarily talking about children. Try to relate what is said to your manner of learning something new.

How to raise a creative child. Step one: get away from him.

They learn to read at age 2, play Bach at age 4, perform arithmetic at age 6, and by age 8 speak fluent English. foreign languages. Their classmates suffer from envy, and their parents rejoice in winning the lottery. But, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot, their careers are more likely to lead to whining than exploding.

Let's look at the most prestigious win for scientifically gifted high school students in the Westinghouse talent search competition, called the Science Super Bowl by one American president. From the very beginning of its history in 1942 and until 1994, more than 2,000 gifted teenagers were recognized as finalists of the competition. But only 1 percent of them made it to the National Academy of Science, and only eight people won the Nobel Prize.

Geeks rarely become adult geniuses who change the world. We believe that they must lack the social and emotional skills to function in society. But when we look at the facts, this explanation is not enough: less than a quarter of gifted children experience social and emotional problems. The vast majority of them are well-adjusted, winning at both cocktail parties and literacy.

They are held back by the fact that they do not learn originality. They do their best to please their parents and admire the teachers. But when it comes to playing at Carnegie Hall or winning the title of chess champion, something unexpected happens: practice makes perfect, but it does not create something new.

Gifted children learn to play Mozart's greatest melodies, but rarely compose their own music. They focus their energy on mastering existing scientific knowledge without making new discoveries. They conform to codified rules instead of inventing their own. Research shows that the most creative kids are the least favorite of their teachers, and so many of them develop the habit of keeping their original ideas. In terms of the language of the critic William Dereziwicz, they make excellent sheep.

As adults, many geeks turn out to be experts in their fields and take on leadership positions. However, "only a small proportion of gifted children eventually become adult revolutionary creators," psychologist Helen Winner laments. "Those who get to this point are forced to go through a painful transformation" into an adult who "ends up reshaping the field."

Most geeks never make that leap. They apply their extraordinary abilities brilliantly in their work, but without causing any waves. They become doctors who treat their patients but don't fight to fix a failing medical system, or lawyers who defend their clients against unfair fees but don't try to change the laws themselves.

So what does it take to raise a creative child? One study compared families with children who were ranked in the top 5 percent of the most creative children in school with families where the children were not particularly creative. Parents of typical children, on average, set six house rules regarding homework schedules and bedtimes. Parents of highly creative children, on average, had less than one such rule.

It may be difficult to nurture creativity, but it is easy to interfere with it. By limiting the rules, parents encourage their children to think for themselves. They tend to "emphasize moral values ​​instead of certain rules," says Harvard psychologist Teresa Amable.

Yes, the parents of creative children encouraged them to excel and succeed, but they also encouraged them to find “joy in work.” Their children had the freedom to prioritize and find their own interests. And this allowed children to become creative adults.

When psychologist Benjamin Bloom researched the early roots of creativity in world-famous musicians, artists, athletes, and scientists, he found that their parents had no thought of raising star children. They were not in the role of sergeants on the parade ground or suppliers of slaves. They listened to the intrinsic motivation of their children. When children showed interest in something, parents supported them.

Top-level concert pianists have not had elite teachers since they were infants, their first lessons being from those living in the neighborhood who made learning joyful. Mozart showed interest in music before the lessons, and not vice versa. Mary Lou Williams taught herself to play the piano by herself, Itzhak Perman began to study the violin on his own after being denied admission to music school.

Researchers have found that the more we exercise, the more we get stuck in a rut—trapped in the same mindsets. Bridge experts have more difficulty adapting to the new rules of the game than beginners, experienced accountants perform worse than novices in applying the new tax rules.

There is evidence that creative input depends on the breadth, not just the depth, of our knowledge and experience. In the fashion industry, the most original collections appear in those couturiers who have worked abroad for a long time. In science, winning the Nobel Prize is less about being a genius in a narrow field, and more about someone who is interested in different areas. In relation to ordinary scientists, Nobel laureates in science are 22 times more likely to also be actors, dancers and conjurers; 12 times more likely to write poetry, plays and novels; 7 times more likely to engage in arts and crafts; and 2 times more likely to play a musical instrument or compose music.

No one is forcing these eminent scientists to indulge in their hobby of art. It reflects their curiosity. And sometimes this curiosity leads to insights and discoveries. “The theory of relativity opened itself to me intuitively, and music is the driving force behind this intuition,” wrote Albert Einstein. His mother enrolled him in violin lessons at the age of 5, but he was not interested. His love for music blossomed only in adolescence after he quit attending classes and encountered Mozart's sonatas. "Love - the best teacher than a sense of duty,” he said.

Try to program some success and at best get an ambitious robot. If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you must give them the opportunity to pursue their passions, not yours.

(You can listen to the whole album Avi Darash - Impermanence .)

Love for creativity, the ability to think outside the box, in any kind of activity to demonstrate a fresh look and an individual approach to solving a problem - that set of qualities that we try to instill in children from an early age. Why exactly today the task of cultivating a creative personality in a child has become so acute and is put by teachers and psychologists at the forefront of everything educational process? There are many reasons, but there is a simple and understandable answer to the question.
The time of mechanical skills, habitual actions and traditional solutions is over. Machines do all this for us. A person, having finally received the opportunity to solve many domestic and industrial problems with “foreign” hands, is obliged to justify this opportunity. His vocation today is creativity. In all fields of knowledge, art and technology. Everything else will be done for him by smart, but devoid of the ability to think and create devices - that's why they were created.
The main directions of the early creative development of children are the education of fine art skills, the development musical ability and instilling the ability to build speech correctly, that is, to master the art in an accessible, logical and consistent way to express one's own thoughts and feelings in verbal form. The basis for each of the aspects of personal growth outlined here is laid in early childhood - from three to five or six years: during this period, the children's brain is most flexible and it is possible to reveal the creative potential, to reveal the nature of the child's abilities to the maximum.

How to raise an artist from a child

Not all children in adulthood will show themselves as brilliant painters, sculptors and architects. But every kid likes to draw. The desire to express one's attitude to the world in colors and visual forms is useful for everyone: artistic creativity develops comprehensively. Drawing is a great way to coordinate the connection between the hand and the eye, synchronize the action of all sides of the sensory perception of the world, improve fine motor skills and develop imagination. By fantasizing, most children improve both their internal and external speech.

Which of the drawing-sculpting classes gives the greatest effect? All taken together. So if today you and your son or daughter are painting with paints on a sheet of paper, tomorrow - coloring or making collages, the day after tomorrow - sculpting figures from plasticine or punching patterns on foil, be sure: all these activities are useful, and changing the type of activity is exciting, not bores and diversifies artistic skills.

The little man is interested in everything: drawing funny pictures with multi-colored blots, blowing paint through a straw, and filling the empty space with traces of his fingers, palms and legs, and inventing stamped patterns using home-made prints from plasticine. There are many original views developing creativity, the content of which is easy for any parent to learn from computer programs. Exists step by step lessons drawing, plastic exercises - they are all accessible and effective.

How to develop a child's musical abilities

Bearing in mind that children learn to speak and sing almost simultaneously, when trying to solve the problem of developing a child’s vocal (music-making) skills, adults are faced with the fact that the process of learning music itself is more costly and time-consuming than drawing, and besides, it is far not always feasible in a family setting. Almost every adult is capable of drawing and sculpting from plasticine (we abstract from the level of skill) - only a few are able to sing, and only a few of us have learned to play instruments.

How to proceed in such a case? There are several ways to develop a child's ear and lay the foundations of a musical culture. The first is to use audio-video recordings, computer music lessons or contact a distance tutor (including on the Internet). The second is to send the child to a music school at the age of five or six (they don’t take them there before). Third, contact kids club or a development center: in such organizations there are circles of interest, and talented music teachers work there.

Even if none of these ways of stimulating musical data interested parents, you should not be upset: lessons in the musical development of children are held in any kindergarten, they are an obligatory part of the educational process. Your boy or girl will turn out to be a gifted child (this becomes noticeable early) - attentive educators preschool bring it to the attention of adults. And if you have the opportunity to develop what is inherent in a person from birth, send your child to a music class.

How to develop speech and stimulate stage skills

In most cases, parents are able to create good conditions for their child to develop speech. If there is a desire to help the child adapt in the world of children and adults, using the ability to easily communicate with others, parents will not deprive the baby of attention and begin to expand his horizons from the cradle. That's when the speech work begins. Your desire to teach baby to the sounds of the voices of loved ones, intonations, shades, constant commenting on their own and his actions, an invitation to participate in a conversation - these are the first milestones with which the child will begin to master the process of speaking, experimenting with his own speech apparatus. And it doesn’t matter what word or phrase the little person utters first - the main thing is that the desire to express thoughts and considerations aloud does not leave him: in life, the ability to build a conversation is very valuable.

How to teach a baby to communicate correctly: build a phrase, intotone it, pronounce words well, do not rush, but do not “slow down” in a conversation - a task in which not only mom, dad and grandparents participate, but also teachers, methodologists of children preschool or developmental center. Everything should be used here - mother’s continuous commenting on what is happening in the outside world during walks, and reading bedtime stories, and learning tongue twisters, counting rhymes, jokes, and solving riddles.
There are no trifles in the formation of speech skills - everything is important here. For a person will have to talk all the time in life: at school, college, at work and in his own family. The better he masters the art of eloquence, the easier it will be to develop relationships with others in adulthood. Therefore, develop the desire of the child to speak constantly - whether by drawing, learning a song for a matinee in the kindergarten with him, reciting a poem, arranging home theatrical performances, resorting to computer audio-video lessons or watching children's cartoons. It is also important to pay attention to the development of eloquence in reading, namely
And remember: if the problem of the creative development of the child is solved in a complex way, the result will not be slow to affect. You will raise an extraordinary personality.

Jean Van't Khal, mother of two daughters and author of the mega-popular blog Artful Parent, has finally released a book in which she has collected all her main achievements and master classes on creative parenting. The book is called “Creative Education. Art and creativity in your family.”

In the book, Jean explains how to develop in a child Creative skills, embedded in it from birth, and fill everyday life with creativity family life. She tells how to find time for creativity during the day, helps you choose activities that your child will like and suit, teaches you how to arrange a place for classes and storage of children's work, how to choose necessary materials and tools on how to competently encourage and develop creative thinking and how to correctly talk with a child about his “creations”.

The book consists of two parts: theoretical, with mass useful tips from personal experience Gin; and practical, which includes as many as 60 master classes for classes with children of different ages.

Gene says that “any activity filled with beauty and creation” can be called creative, and modern parents have many ways and opportunities to bring art into everyday life. She also insists that almost any business can be filled with creativity. Drawing and modeling are the most popular near-creative activities. They also include:

• scientific experiments and experiments - they develop creative thinking;
• walks - the beauty of nature sets you up for creative contemplation;
• cooking and baking - nourishes not only the stomach;
• role-playing games with toys - develop the imagination.

Psychologists say that creativity helps children comprehend the world, helps to get rid of fears and awakens emotions. Creative children learn to think outside the box, look for solutions to complex problems and make discoveries. All this contributes to the personal success of children.

Moreover:

Creativity builds neural connections.

Creative activities develop fine motor skills.

Doodles are the forerunners of writing. More scribbles - the child will learn to write faster and more painlessly.

Creativity develops the ability to independently solve problems, helps to know oneself and the world and also communicate with others.

Gene sees two options for introducing creativity into everyday life: gradual, dosed or revolutionary, when everything, at once and a lot. She also notes that the mood and the original start of a new creative life are important. To do this, Jin offers to "promise yourself to create." But so that it is not from the category “everything, from Monday new life!”, she came up with the idea of ​​writing on a board or paper a special agreement with the following content (it can, of course, be varied):

Committed to making creativity an important part of our Everyday life. We will try to encourage and respect what each of us creates, enjoy experimenting with art materials, freely express ourselves and our ideas, and add more color and joy to our lives.

The author of "Creative Education" suggests allowing children to experiment more and show independence. The tasks collected in the book are aimed at studying the abilities of the child, studying various materials and technician. They are not result-oriented, as in most other publications, but focus on the process.

The task of an adult is to give children the freedom of creativity, to help, guide, and not lead. You need to admire and show interest, help arrange the finished work of art and hang it on the wall or wrap it as a gift.

Creativity and age

About a year, children put everything in their mouths. But already at this age they can be offered paper and pencil. If the baby wants to chew on the pencil, gently point his pen to the paper, saying: “Pull the pencil over the paper, draw something.” By repeating these steps over and over again, you will teach your baby that pencils can not only procrastinate in the mouth.

At the age of one, children draw with fingers and brushes, and by the age of two they are interested in stickers and adhesive tape. It is important to use non-toxic materials that are not dangerous if the baby tastes them. Do not seat the child at the table, at this age it is convenient for him to create while standing. And do not count on the duration of the lesson: 5-15 minutes is enough time to concentrate on work for this age.

2-3 years

Children can concentrate longer, creating more realistic works. Now they can not only draw, but also sculpt plasticine worms, cut paper with scissors, glue it with glue.

4 years

Children of this age are very emotional and enterprising, their works are more complex and full of symbolism. 4-year-old kids are gradually mastering letters, a stapler, and adhesive tape.

5-7 years

This age is characterized by a special technique: 2 lines - the earth and the sky - and all objects are already lined up along them. Also at this age, they are typically influenced by other children and their "creative manners".

8 years and older

If earlier child could do a little of everything, now he has formed priorities and favorite activities. Periodically, they will change, but each time the child will go into them with his head. Now you have a creative unit in front of you, an artist - enjoy communicating with him!

How to encourage creativity

1. Let children explore different materials.
2. Take a special place for creative activities, equip it so that the child has free access to the materials he needs.
3. Provide the child with brushes, paints and plasticine to work with.
4. Respect - put in a prominent place his favorite crafts.

The “Creative Education” section with master classes is dedicated directly to creative activities with detailed instructions. All of them are not like traditional tasks aimed at the result. Jean invites children to explore their possibilities, study materials, artistic tools and techniques, experiment, trying something new each time, make decisions and act independently. She concentrates on the process and tries to make it as interesting as possible for children and their parents. Among the tasks are drawing with shaving foam, and colored splashes in the manner of Pollock, and ordinary toy cars or a fly swatter, and a self-portrait on a mirror, and the construction of sculptures from stones, and home-made magnets, and collage, and the manufacture of plasticine, various masses for modeling, paints , as well as much, much more.

Here is an example of an activity that is ideal for a fun children's holiday.

musical chairs

When new music starts, change places at the table.

For children from 3 years old.

materials

Paint in cups, one color for each participant

Tassels

Instruction

1. Prepare a table large enough for all participants to fit around it (in this variation, participants are not eliminated). Give each child a piece of paper, paint, and a brush.

2. Seat the children in their places.

3. Explain the rules of the game. Tell them what they should draw while the music is playing. When the tune ends, they need to stop working, take their paint and brush, and walk around the table in a clockwise direction. When the music starts again, you need to sit on the nearest chair and continue drawing in a new place.

4. Try to put on different melodies each time so that the children convey their impression of them.

Or, for example, a recipe for making homemade plasticine from Jean. You will know exactly what it consists of and will not worry about its toxicity.

Unboiled plasticine

The texture of this plasticine is completely different, and it does not keep as long as boiled. But it is faster and easier to prepare.

For children from 1 year.

materials

2 cups of flour

1 glass of salt

2 tablespoons cream of tartar (potassium hydrogen tartrate)

2 cups boiling water

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Food coloring or watercolor

Instruction

1. Mix all dry ingredients in a medium bowl.

2. Make a notch in the center, add oil and dye there.

3. Pour boiling water into a bowl and mix well.

4. At first, the mixture will seem too viscous and liquid to you. Leave it for a few minutes, it will cool and harden.

5. Put the dough on the table and knead, roll into a ball. You can add glitter or essential oils.

6. Place the mixture in an airtight container.

Fill the life of your family with creativity, and the world will change for you!

Based on the book by Jean Van’t Khal “CREATIVE EDUCATION. Art and creativity in your family.”

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Consultation for parents: "How to raise a creative person?"

Creative potential is laid in the child from birth and develops as he grows up. The natural giftedness of the child manifests itself quite early, but the extent to which his creative potential develops largely depends on the family. The family is able to develop or ruin the creative abilities of the child. Therefore, the formation of a creative personality is one of the most important tasks of education.
Speaking about the formation of abilities, it is necessary to dwell on the question of at what age children's creative abilities should be developed. Psychologists call various terms from one and a half to five years. There is also a hypothesis that it is necessary to develop creative abilities from a very early age.
Preschool childhood is the most favorable period for the development of creative abilities because at this age children are extremely inquisitive, they have a great desire to learn about the world around them. And parents, encouraging curiosity, informing children of knowledge, involving them in different kinds activities, contribute to the expansion of children's experience. And the accumulation of experience and knowledge is a necessary prerequisite for future creative activity. In addition, the thinking of preschoolers is more free than that of older children. It is more independent and not yet crushed by stereotypes. From all of the above, we can conclude that preschool age provides excellent opportunities for developing creative abilities. And the creative potential of an adult will largely depend on how these opportunities were used.

Creative activity is very interesting for a preschooler, because it satisfies his desire to act and act productively, as well as the need to reflect the impressions received from the surrounding life, to express his attitude to what he saw and experienced. The kid is happy that he can create an image with his own hands.
Specialists distinguish three groups of funds aesthetic education: art, surrounding reality (including nature) and artistic and creative activities. All these areas are interconnected, and thanks to this, the child is actively involved in the creative experience of people. Only an adult can effectively guide the artistic activities of children and the development of their abilities. At the same time, mental processes themselves develop in artistic and creative activity, raising it to a new level. Ideas about objects and phenomena are formed on the basis of perception. So essential condition The development of a child's creativity is the development of perception (visual, auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, tactile), the formation of a diverse sensory experience.
The peculiarities of a child's perception are determined not only by the state of the sense organs, but also by the sensory experience that he acquired in early childhood. Indeed, practice and research show that the sooner you begin to develop the sensations and perceptions of the baby, the more diverse and complete will be his sensory experience by the time he begins to draw, sculpt. For the development of figurative representations and figurative thinking of great importance are such types of creative activity as visual, constructive. It is obvious that, on the one hand, for the successful implementation of visual activity, it is necessary to develop figurative ideas and thinking, on the other hand, visual activity plays a huge role in the formation of this kind of ideas and thinking. Imagination is closely connected with figurative thinking, both of these processes are based on the aesthetic perception of the world. Without them, it is impossible to carry out artistic and creative activity. Any kind of creativity is based on a good level of development of perception, ideas, figurative thinking, imagination. Consequently, the formation of these processes will serve the development of creative abilities. Of course, that the game and artistic activity represent the greatest opportunities for this.

Creativity is an amalgamation of many qualities. The components of creativity are:
1. Rapidity- the ability to express the maximum number of ideas.
2. Flexibility- the ability to express a wide variety of ideas.
3. Originality- the ability to generate new non-standard ideas (this can manifest itself in answers, decisions that do not coincide with generally accepted ones).
4. Completeness- the ability to improve your "product" or give it a finished look.

How to develop creativity in a child? First, let's take a look at the most common mistakes parents make when trying to develop their child's creativity.
1. The first and most common mistake is trying to follow a pattern. A huge number of so-called "creativity kits" are sold in stores, where a child is invited to create a craft using a ready-made stencil. Parents willingly buy these sets, not thinking that they are aimed at developing diligence, perseverance and accuracy, and not at all at developing creative potential. The main criterion that distinguishes creativity from manufacturing is the uniqueness of its result. Therefore, stencils have nothing to do with children's creativity.
In this regard, games and toys that do not leave room for the child's imagination should be avoided - for example, mosaics and designers, where it is necessary to fold figures and patterns according to a pattern, or coloring books that already contain colored pictures for example.
2. The second mistake - parental prohibitions on the child's attempts to create. We are afraid of dirty clothes, dirty floors, walls, extra washing and cleaning. Most easy way avoid unnecessary hassle - make your workshop a bathroom. Because space restrictions will prevent the child from getting real pleasure from drawing, sculpting, etc.
3. The third mistake - You can't do something for a child if he can do it himself. You can't think for him when he can think of it himself. Unfortunately, hinting is a common way for parents to "help" children, but it only hurts the cause.
4. The fourth mistake - parents are not in a hurry to get involved in the creative process of children. But for children, it is parents who are an example to follow! Don't be afraid to try.

1. One of the most important factors in the creative development of children is creation of conditions conducive to the formation of their creative abilities. Parents need to make the process of life and activity of children creative, put children in situations of cognitive, artistic and moral creativity. It is necessary to organize an interesting and meaningful life of the child, enrich him with vivid impressions, provide emotional and intellectual experience, which will serve as the basis for the emergence of ideas and will be the material necessary for the work of the imagination.
2. Success in raising a creative personality depends on the atmosphere that prevails in your home, on the relationship that has developed between parents and a child. It has long been known that for creativity a comfortable psychological environment , so maintain an atmosphere of warmth, trust and creativity at home. Take care of the process and the result of children's activities. It is important to constantly stimulate the child to be creative, to encourage his successes and show sympathy for failures, to be patient even with the strangest ideas. It is necessary to exclude comments and condemnations from everyday life. A child deprived of a positive outlet for creative energy can go into aggressive behavior.
3. Encouraging the creativity of the child, you need to remember that he sees a lot in his own way, perceives the world differently than we do. Therefore, teaching a child avoid stereotypes. Start from the makings of your child. After all, the main thing is not the education of talent or genius, but how diverse his inner world will be, whether his creative abilities are realized.
4. Give your child the freedom to choose activities , in ways and methods of action, do not prevent him from expressing himself freely. Watch the child. What does he like to do the most? Sing? Dance? Draw? Sculpt? Copy someone's facial expressions or behavior? Let your house always have plasticine, paints, old magazines, colored paper, jars and boxes. Then the desire of the child, his interest in creativity and emotional upsurge will serve as a guarantee that this business will benefit him.
5. Support your child's creativity across respectful attitude all family members to his drawings, crafts, the first attempts to compose something. At preschool age, most children do not hesitate to dance, sing, show others their drawings. The personality of the child is not yet notorious, he feels enough strength and desire to try everything, to participate in different types creative activity.
6. Raising the creative abilities of children will be effective only if it is a purposeful process. There is a lot of debate about what and how to teach children, but the fact that it is necessary to teach is beyond doubt. If you choose the appropriate teaching methods, then children, without losing the originality of creativity, create works of a higher level than their untrained peers. Enroll your child in a children's circle or studio, a music school and an art school so that he can develop and improve his creative abilities.
7. Get actively involved in the process and create with your child. Let the kid gush with ideas, your task is not to interfere, but to help him. Children, unlike adults, have a fresh outlook on things. Any, the most nondescript detail, they can turn into a magical character. Let your child teach you how to create, and then he will carry his creativity and lack of stereotypes through his whole life. And in the future you will be proud of your talented child.
It is very useful to make toys together with the child, often a doll sewn together with the baby will be much more interesting to him than the most beautiful purchased one. You can also hold joint games, where parents and the child will come up with a plot and characters together, and then portray them. Any homework can be a great help for the game, and any object can turn into a fairy-tale hero.
8. The design of the apartment and its interior also affect the creative abilities of the child. It’s good if there are paintings, decorations, decorative things on the walls that you can touch with your hands. Decorate your apartment with your kid's drawings , but remember to change them from time to time so that the child has a desire to draw more and more, so that he can see that you appreciate his efforts.
9. Read fairy tales to your child. The role of a fairy tale for the development of a child's imagination is invaluable. It is a fairy tale that will teach him to find a way out of a hopeless situation, to invent something new, because everything is possible in a fairy tale. There is only one step from reading a fairy tale to a new hobby - writing your own fairy tales and stories. It will open the way for your child to be creative.
10. Give your child a room or a separate area for games and toys. Games in childhood occupy most of the time of children. A game for a child is not a waste of time, but a source of new information. This is the way children learn about the world around them. In games, training and development of all cognitive processes take place, children's talent develops.
Many parents note that often kids do not use specially purchased toys for games, but substitute items - various caps and sticks, rags and bottles, leaves and boxes. The child can use for his games any object that is within reach, and strange as it sounds, the fewer toys he has, the more his imagination develops.
11. Do not be afraid to get dirty or dirty something in the house (cover a white sofa, remove the vases higher). About what creative development we can talk if the baby is constantly in the restricted area: “Do not touch! Do not run! Do not take!". Do not forbid the child to create and do not punish him for creative experiments! Set certain boundaries for his creativity. For example, you can’t draw on the walls, but you can draw on whatman paper attached to the wall.
12.Never force your opinion on your child! You can suggest, submit an idea, but do not insist on it, this may reduce the child's initiative.
The main thing in the process of educating a creative personality is to give the child the opportunity to realize his ability to be creative!