Silkysteps early years forum - planning ideas for play - why is it important to encourage children to see and value creativity?

Hi, creativity enables life and problem solving skills and an ability to express self eg. through language, through art - both modern and traditional.It is also important as it's a means of looking at manufacturing, outcomes and what happens during the process of getting from start to finish if there is one.

This page from handsonscotland will help more xx

http://www.handsonscotland.co.uk/flo...reativity.html

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What is creativity?
We can all be creative if we are given the opportunity.

The National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (NACCCE) gives the following definition of the four characteristics of creativity:

1. thinking or behaving imaginatively
2. the imaginative activity is purposeful; it is directed to achieving an objective
3. these processes must generate something original
4. the outcome must be of value in relation to the objective. (Ellyatt, 2010; p.93)

The NACCCE’s definition of creativity as ‘imagination, fashioned so as to produce outcomes which are original and of value’, provided a foundation for a range of educational policy innovations in England, in all phases of education from the early years through to higher education.

Creativity is about seeing things in a new way and putting ideas together differently, so that a new idea emerges – Graham Wallas

It depends on the imagination – the images inside your head. Creativity is about bringing those ideas out of your head and making them more tangible.

They do not always take form sufficiently to become a creation, because many creative ideas are abandoned along the way. The child formulating those ideas becomes distracted, loses focus, is constrained or stopped from carrying the creative process through.

The creative process and creation
Creativity has two parts:

● The creative process (incubation) – children gather ideas, simmer them and become aware that they have an idea they want to do something with.

● Creation – the idea hatches, emerges and takes form with a surge of energy, which sometimes makes the creator feel rather uncomfortable and restless. This means it is easy to lose the moment

Sometimes creative ideas take a long time to develop. They incubate for different lengths of time, depending on the child or adult incubating them, before the act of creation as the idea takes form and is hatched.

The first creations of children are usually based on;
● variations on a theme
● doing the same thing over and over, in different places and with different materials.

Best wishes