Basic Reasons
Stimulates Creativity
Happier house from satisfied children
Enhances basic skills
Reduces spoiled qualities
Helps personality development
Why Encourage It?
In the modern times we have, free thinking and imagination seem to be on a downward slope. When you have the answer to every question at your fingertips from your phone, or your child can ask you to order anything they need rather than making things and being personable, using our minds to think of alternative ways just does not seem to be that important. This should be the complete opposite for our direction of thought for that topic, as using imagination in kids will ensure they will have the capabilities to develop the things needed for the future. If they have no drive to make things their own, their life will not be lived to the fullest potential. Critical thinking skills need to be develop and other abilities that are only really learned through imagining, trying, and studying the results.
How to Do So
Stories
Paper crafts
Songs
Making gifts
Art
Cleaning
Nature walks
Further Results
If you think your child is just being silly when they are dreaming about being a character in a story, or making that cake, you may want to rethink things. When kids emulate adult behavior, they are giving clues to the things they might be interested in later on. By allowing them to try a few new activities you can see how they respond and what they might be good at in the future.
Varieties by Place
Kids imagination is of course slightly different in each region of the world due to different applications of tales or music. Each country or ethnicity prepare their children to think hard and in ways not previously used, so that all will grow up to have their place and benefit the world. The overall methods and reasons to encourage imagination remain the same.
Letting children use their imagination and create things they have not dreamed of lets them see the possibilities of the world. If they can see all of the things they might be able to be a part of, they will be hopeful individuals that contribute to society and live a healthy happy life rather than expecting people to create their own stories. It is important children begin their own identity early, so they will not waste time in their life and be the most fulfilled selves they can become.