Encouraging your children's creativity
The simple acts of drawing and coloring are literally childs’ play, however, they both play an important role in a child’s physical, emotional and cognitive development. Like no other activity, drawing and coloring allows young children to express themselves and their emotions, experience autonomy and build their confidence. Drawing and coloring are also excellent pre-cursors to developing writing skills because the toddler is honing his or her fine motor skills which are essential when learning to write.
Parents and caregivers can promote drawing and coloring as a way to improve physical, social, emotional and cognitive development – and to have a lot of fun along the way too. Here are some suggestions:
1.Provide kids with nontoxic materials, blank sheets of white paper and coloring pages.
2. Model drawing. Show children that you like to draw and color too - make designs but do not show your children what they should…
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