Free work children: creative ability and schools, philosophy

Teaser: There has always been no limit to the creative joy of children, especially if the parents give them the space and the opportunity to do so. Learn in this guide for parents how to give your child playful (and joyful) access to work. You can expect many ideas and suggestions here to train your child’s imagination and creative ability.

There has always been no limit to children’s creativity, especially if you give them the space and the opportunity to do so.

In order to prepare the ground for the children, to express their ideas and to promote their implementation, it requires a little rethinking, measured against the given offer, which seems so well tailored to the needs of children today.

The toy industry certainly offers an oversupply of jobs of all kinds, neatly staggered according to age groups, a wide variety of means are used.

At this point, the pros and cons of these possibilities should not be discussed, but a different perspective on the possibilities in this area should be presented.

For many years, thinking has prevailed in many places, which deviates from the conventional preoccupation with stencils or specified sub-areas and rather puts the children’s imagination and its implementation in the foreground. The means to do this are not necessarily used after subjects preformed materials within which children live out their ideas. On the contrary, the children are encouraged to first shape various materials themselves and then use these self-made works to express the world of thought in the sense of playing.

An example of this is a complete dinosaur landscape from the cardboard you bought, in contrast to the hand-made figures made from chestnuts and acorns that you have collected, which are a whole "Village" populate.

In the case of predefined, finished fields of action, the imagination of the children "from" used here, which does not affect their enthusiasm in any way, but a wide range of possibilities is neglected: due to their own design, material experience is left out, and motor and cognitive skills are not used.

This is where the idea of free work comes into play. Of course, the children need a certain framework and material templates here too, but the approach is completely different. Since the children’s ideas are only supposed to take shape here, precisely through the design of the materials on offer, it also requires a little imagination and ingenuity The parents respectively. Adults to prepare this soil.

In the broadest sense, free work consists of one .

. Subject term, given as an umbrella term,
. different material and
. adult self-help.

It goes without saying that he also has his own ideas about "beautiful" or "what something should look like" does not apply to the creativity and the creative process of the child. Why shouldn’t a dinosaur be light blue or have cotton hair, a princess puppet can wear pants and an eye patch? The self-felted balls for a necklace can also have a more original shape.

Free work and design arise from a topic or an umbrella term that necessarily provides a framework within which the children implement their ideas. The topic itself is specialized as little as possible, the conceptual framework is left as open as possible.

You will quickly notice how difficult it is for children to gain their first experience with free works, provided that they only use templates or templates to create templates beforehand.

The more often you are creative in this new area, the easier it will be for you to implement your ideas to a point where you can name your own topics without or with little help and bring these designs to the actual game after completion.

Of course that would be "Dinoland project" Too big for the beginning, it would be better to learn different material in detail first.

As an example, collected paper boxes of various shapes, thicknesses, sizes and types may be used, not to mention inlays of toilet and kitchen rolls, but also corrugated cardboard, cardboard, all types and thicknesses of paper, cords and wadding, glue and various scissors should not be missing.

The following topics could be addressed here. :

. Wonder animals, whereby colors and wool are also added after the basic design;
. Masks (carnival mask)
. 3D Puzzle,
. a ball track for glass marbles
. a knight’s helmet
. a paper plane, etc.

Once the first experiences with material, implementation of ideas and design have been made, the topics can be expanded as desired. This will be new topics with the Introduced to children, kind of brainstorming, preliminary considerations. It can also be discussed which material is suitable for the performances, what is needed, which material combines well with other, etc., which is then put into practice.

At this point the most diverse types of material can be brought in, in the overview a paper area, with color, clay or polymer clay, stones and sand can be experimented well; Shells, threads, cords, branches or other natural "Collections" support the decoration.

Further projects could be:

Box zoo, not only the animals in the zoo, but also the zoo itself is designed;
Flight into space, here too there would be additional colors, bird sand or small gravel, etc.;
Punch and puppet theater;
Western town or knight’s castle, and many others.

It goes without saying that this type of design requires space, in the literal spatial sense as well as in the temporal approach. In most cases, one afternoon is not enough, depending on the size of the project, the child’s zeal and ability to concentrate. It may sound like some grand chaos in the living room for some parents, but the high quality of the experience for the children, practice in gross and fine motor skills, cognition and the sense of achievement make it easy to forget these fears.

The various materials can be stowed in boxes just as easily as Lego or playmobile landscapes; if everyday clothes appear to be at risk of color and adhesive, you can trim a discarded men’s shirt and pull the child with the button strip to the back, even large T-shirts like to fulfill this function.

You are ready to go, amazing things will happen, so be prepared!

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