5 ways to cultivate children's imagination, a must-read for parents aged 0-6!

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More and more parents are beginning to realize the importance of imagination and creativity for their children's development in this era.

As big as launching a rocket into the sky, as small as how to do a good job of a blackboard newspaper (I don't know if the current baby still draws a blackboard newspaper), creative and imaginative people can often play a more important role.

Many parents around me have enrolled their children in programming, Lego, and thinking courses, hoping to enhance their imagination and creativity through learning.

Although the curriculum will have a certain effect on stimulating the imagination, what is more important is the guidance of parents to children and the way they get along with children.

The Little Prince begins with this story:

I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups and asked them if they were afraid.

But they replied, "What's there to be afraid of in a hat?" ”

I don't draw a hat. I painted a python that was digesting an elephant. Then I drew the inside of the python so that adults could read it. They always need to explain.

My second work is here:

The adults suggested that I better stop painting big pythons, whether the belly is open or the belly is closed. I should concentrate on geography, history, mathematics and language.

In this way, at the age of six, I gave up my ambition to become a great painter. The failure of works number one and number two discouraged me.

Adults themselves don't understand anything, and they always have children to explain it to them, which makes me feel very tired.

This seemingly simple passage profoundly explains why children lose their creativity: because many adults simply don't try to understand children.

Children's imagination needs to be not only stimulated, but also protected.

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How to enhance children's imagination and creative thinking in daily life? Combining the materials I have consulted and my own teaching experience, I find these 5 points to be crucial!

1. Extensive exploration.

Take children to different environments, get in touch with nature, visit various venues, play a variety of games, and provide children with various perceptual stimuli.

The basis of imagination is appearance, and extensive exploration can provide children with material for imagination and creation.

2. Develop the habit of reading.

In addition to exploration, we should also pay attention to the formation of reading habits, although now we have more and more diversified ways to obtain information, but reading is still the most effective way for humans to obtain information.

The knowledge acquired through reading, and the connections between them, is the basis of creative thinking.

Provide children with age-appropriate, physically and mentally beneficial reading materials, and at the same time lead by example to cultivate the habit of reading for children.

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3. Make up stories with your children.

Make up stories with your children, you can make up stories based on the pictures on the picture books while reading picture books,

You can also find two unrelated things from life, such as: We are going to make up a story about Peppa Pig and a washing machine today!

You can also try to break the mold and adapt some classic stories.

4. Use questions to provoke thinking.

Use various phenomena in life to guide, such as:

What do you think scissors can do besides cutting things?

For older children, parents can ask more open-ended questions that can trigger their children's thinking:

Is there any other way besides this method?

What do you think of when you see this?

5. Play games.

After the age of three, children will have a strong interest in pretend games.

For example, boys' favorite monster fighting, girls' favorite family, these are all pretend games. Parents can encourage their children and participate in the game.

There is also a type of game that encourages children to draw their own ideas or draw descriptions of others.

All in all, imagination is closely related to our education and our attitude towards children, and when we get along with children, we may as well be a little weird and relaxed.

As "The Little Prince" tells us, children are actually the most imaginative, until they become adults.

Maybe we have become adults, but don't forget the preciousness of childlike hearts.

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