| All children love to play kindergarten games. They | | | | everyday common things which we use - washing |
| are fun, engaging and develop motor skills. What | | | | machines, television, telephones. Challenge them to |
| about creativity? Do all these games involve the | | | | create or invent a better washing machine. List |
| child in developing their creativity skills? | | | | down the things which you like and dislike about |
| Children are packed with creativity but their | | | | the washing machine - the color, shape, features, |
| potential to create remains dormant if it is not put | | | | functionality. Encourage them to draw out their |
| into practice. Creativity requires exercise to grow | | | | ideas and most important to have fun in the |
| and it is one skill which children can develop to | | | | process. |
| varying degrees. | | | | · Ask the children to choose their favorite |
| Kindergarten games which nurture and develop | | | | cartoon character and make an enlarged stuffed |
| creativity skills in children must have the following | | | | copy. Draw it onto paper twice, color, cut and |
| attributes: | | | | staple around the edges and stuff it with cotton |
| 1. Foster use of imagination and make-believe | | | | or pieces of paper. Each child will then have to tell |
| 2. Encourage flexible thinking and problem solving | | | | a short story about the character like what is its |
| 3. Empower the child to make choices and | | | | favorite food, color or toy and why is it their |
| decisions and to do things on their own in their | | | | favorite. |
| own ways. | | | | · Provide children with open-ended toys |
| 4. Sharpen their observation skills | | | | as they are more conducive to develop creativity |
| 5. Learn to express themselves in art, music and | | | | skills than closed-ended toys. Open-ended toys |
| dance | | | | are sand blocks, play dough and building blocks as |
| 6. Develop abilities to create images and use | | | | these toys allow the children to use them in |
| symbols | | | | creative ways, there is no one right or correct |
| 7. Expose children to a broad and diversified range | | | | way to work and they have multiple outcomes. |
| of artistic and intellectual pursuits | | | | Closed-ended toys like a puzzle are designed with |
| 8. Show children how to be curious | | | | a single outcome and one correct way. Provide |
| We suggest several kindergarten games which | | | | the children with multi-colored play dough and |
| can nurture children creativity skills. | | | | challenge them to make the most colorful and |
| · In this activity, allow the children ideas | | | | beautiful doll. After which the children come out |
| and imagination to run wild. Ask them on | | | | and introduce their dolls. |