I was looking for some creative, fun ways to work in school work into fun in Arianna's school days. Hunter spends about 2 hours with us doing school work so I thought if it was more fun, he would enjoy it also. I found this article that was great. How to raise an imaginative child.
I learned that encouraging imagination helps improve vocabulary. Reading, listening and acting all the fairy tales and stories helps them improve voc. It also helps with the taking control part of the mind of a six year old. She wants to control so much of her life, and being able to act out a scene where the princess rescues all the mice and her brother helps her to find good homes, and the King and Queen(of course mom and dad) help feed all of them. Helps her control what she feels like is more than beyond her control. It also helps with social rules. If they all go tot he play ground and create a castle out of the play houses, and then turn it into their own little world and play different parts. I love the Peter Pan part. They learn to interact with other friends in the creation in their mind. Even better is when mom and dad will join in. It is even a problem solver. They early they start with imaginative and creating the better when they get older they can solve problems through the ways they learned to be imaginative.
How do we help as parents was the part I was the most interested in. Read Read Read Books. Share stories, make them up not in a book and share them. Get them to make artwork with what they think, hear, feel, want to do, build play. Arianna loves this one and is awesome at it. She can take almost any image and in her 6 year old way draw or create it. It blows my mind every time she does it. Make music to go with all the things they are playing. Put a song to cleaning, eating, going to bed, going to the store, starting school work, singing ways to be quite. Act out different types of feelings and sad, happy, glad, and more and then how to go from one to the other,. Hunter does great at this and makes the best faces when her shows you how he feels. And of course as any acting coach says use props. Towel rack, chalkboard, sidewalk chalk, bathroom rug into a magic carpet..... But only turn to the computer on occasion. Looking up resources it is great for, but does not leave a lot of room for imagination. TV is even worse. Know all that is fun and can take up a lot for time and interaction. But there is also a limit to it, and accepting in some parts, like the imaginary friend you have to invite to dinner, always make the clean up of the mess as fun as the game, encourage wild ideas that are safe, like building a roller coaster in the back yard. ( I think I want to try that one).
So this is all the info I read and much much more. I loved all the info and wanted to share what I learned with anyone who also has a child with an active imagination and artistic mind. I will share more and would love to hear from others on things you read and learn about. Passing along parent info...
I learned that encouraging imagination helps improve vocabulary. Reading, listening and acting all the fairy tales and stories helps them improve voc. It also helps with the taking control part of the mind of a six year old. She wants to control so much of her life, and being able to act out a scene where the princess rescues all the mice and her brother helps her to find good homes, and the King and Queen(of course mom and dad) help feed all of them. Helps her control what she feels like is more than beyond her control. It also helps with social rules. If they all go tot he play ground and create a castle out of the play houses, and then turn it into their own little world and play different parts. I love the Peter Pan part. They learn to interact with other friends in the creation in their mind. Even better is when mom and dad will join in. It is even a problem solver. They early they start with imaginative and creating the better when they get older they can solve problems through the ways they learned to be imaginative.
How do we help as parents was the part I was the most interested in. Read Read Read Books. Share stories, make them up not in a book and share them. Get them to make artwork with what they think, hear, feel, want to do, build play. Arianna loves this one and is awesome at it. She can take almost any image and in her 6 year old way draw or create it. It blows my mind every time she does it. Make music to go with all the things they are playing. Put a song to cleaning, eating, going to bed, going to the store, starting school work, singing ways to be quite. Act out different types of feelings and sad, happy, glad, and more and then how to go from one to the other,. Hunter does great at this and makes the best faces when her shows you how he feels. And of course as any acting coach says use props. Towel rack, chalkboard, sidewalk chalk, bathroom rug into a magic carpet..... But only turn to the computer on occasion. Looking up resources it is great for, but does not leave a lot of room for imagination. TV is even worse. Know all that is fun and can take up a lot for time and interaction. But there is also a limit to it, and accepting in some parts, like the imaginary friend you have to invite to dinner, always make the clean up of the mess as fun as the game, encourage wild ideas that are safe, like building a roller coaster in the back yard. ( I think I want to try that one).
So this is all the info I read and much much more. I loved all the info and wanted to share what I learned with anyone who also has a child with an active imagination and artistic mind. I will share more and would love to hear from others on things you read and learn about. Passing along parent info...
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