Creativity with Children

You maybe wondering “Is my child creative enough?” or if your child is adapting with creativity as well as other children. There is no debate how important a child’s imagination is, as they are the future. From a fetus to the age of 6 years your child’s brain is growing and changing, at the time of birth most babies are born with with an average of 25% of the brain the full grown adults have and by the time their 3 years old the have an average of 80% of their adult brain formed. These ages are critical for learning and developing social skills and overall logic of life in general.

Take for instance the rhyme Teddy Bear Dance made July 6th, 2012 which is on YouTube, Netflix and local PBS stations nationwide. The rhyme although simple teaches the child gross as well as fine motors skills and directions in such a manner that is entertaining as well as educational. It helps a child explore their body from another point of view essentially teaching them basic commands that help them to grasp the basic functions and form of the human body in a way that makes it feel like a fun dance! Parents with children of all ages could benefit from this video alone, from the teamwork aspect to the language they use in their videos it is a video that helps them grow socially cognitively as well as physically to improve hand eye coordination. So it’s safe to say that simple thing such as song, words and tone of things are exponentially important to a child’s growth all those things are included in most child rhymes that’s why it’s critical that you put content in front of them that nourishes them as well as pushes them to shine in different settings from being social in the class room to being active in gym class this one-of-many rhyme has it all with the benefit of having different rhymes and settings on the website provided above. Take for another instance the Scrub-A-Dub-Dub rhyme that teaches your child the importance of cleaning themselves as well as mentioning objects, body parts and shampooing.

It has the advantage of being a fairly catchy song as well as being a pioneer for creative education whether in the class room or at home or even on a camping trip with their they have a song that creatively educates your child on any and every subject with a multitude of characters and topics including but not limited to dinosaurs, animal sounds, driving, and stars. This entire process is key to Phonics which is the process of teaching reading using familiar sounds, letters and groups of letter and sound for better educational results in the literature and vocabulary aspects of a child’s life so while rhymes may seem like something trivial and repetitive i assure you they are a determining factor on the human brain from ages 0-6