Encouraging your children’s creativity helps them grow and learn in fun ways. Here are five easy tips to spark their imagination today.
Updated September 2024
Fostering creativity, one the most important skills for the next generation, begins at home. But it can feel overwhelming to try and encourage a creative atmosphere at home, when you’ve got meal planning, carpools, and laundry on your plate, right?
We’re here to help! Here are 5 easy ways you can encourage your children’s creativity today! These are easy art invitations, conversations starters, and activities that take no time to prep and are guaranteed to get your kids thinking outside the box.
5 Ways to Encourage Your Children’s Creativity Today
1. Go big or small!
Set out paper that is either much smaller or much larger than usual. Pair it with some paint sticks and see how your child changes the size of their drawing to match their paper.
2. Try a hole challenge drawing
Cut a hole in the middle of a piece of paper and invite your child to use the hole to inspire their drawing. We like to use a markers and a couple sheets of hole reinforcement stickers for this.
3. Ask a question
But not just any question! Try a question that invites or challenges them to try a favorite activity in a new way. For example, if you have a kid that loves to build, ask: can you build a house with cards? How would you build a fort with newspaper? How tall do you think you could make a tower with playdough? With marshmallows?
4. Send them on a Make-and-Do Scavenger Hunt
Instead of just asking your kids to find things, have them make things, or build things, or play things. This adds a more interactive dimension to the activity and also has the added benefit of keeping your kids occupied a tad longer.
5. Try a drawing prompt!
This might be our favorite way to encourage creativity in kids. While offering a blank piece of paper is great, too, sometimes a drawing prompt can help children (and everyone!) to draw and think in ways that they might not otherwise.
More Ways to Encourage Your Children’s Creativity
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- 13 Art Prompts for Kids to Foster Creativity
- 12 Kids’ Drawing Games for Creative Fun
- 16 Drawing Printable Art Activities for Kids
- 13 Low Mess and Easy Art Activities for Kids
- 10 Simple After-School Arts and Crafts Activities
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