What is creative work? A work created with your own hands, a craft, a written verse, a composed melody … A lot of things can be attributed to this concept.
A child creates every moment of his life
In fact, any activity can be called creative if a person performs it by connecting fantasy. Children's creativity sometimes consists in the simplest actions that seem ordinary or even harmful to adults.
Here is a kid tearing paper and randomly throwing scraps on the floor. From the outside it may seem that he is just a hooligan. However, the child may be busy with an important task: he creates snowflakes that fall asleep on the ground.
Spoiled wallpaper is an attempt to depict something monumental, large, that does not fit on a sheet. The cut curtains may also be the embodiment of a creative idea - the child wanted to cut lace on boring monotonous curtains.
Life is a fairy tale to be seen
To connect the fantasy, doing something, you need to teach kids from childhood. Even such a tedious job as rewinding balls can be easily turned intocreative, if you invite the “winder” to imagine the balls as living beings that run around the bowl, talk, quarrel, make peace - in short, they live their own “ball” life. And then a boring activity is no longer boring at all, but creative work.
With your own hands, rewound threads under mother's or grandmother's fingers will turn into an amazing little thing, in the creation of which the baby will take part.
Types of creative work
That is why it is rather difficult to attribute activities to specifically designated categories. But if we consider directly children's creativity, then several rather extensive sections should be distinguished. These are the activities in which the child can reveal his potential. For example, you can highlight such types of creativity as:
- pictorial;
- verbal;
- musical;
- theatrical game.
This also includes designing, modeling, making appliqués. L. S. Vygotsky proposes to include them in fine art. But research creative work is already a scientific activity. It most of all fits into the category of verbal creativity.
Musical babies are already born
A man owes his first touch to art to his mother. After all, it is she who immediately after the birth of the baby begins to sing a lullaby to him. The first drawn-out “ahoo” – isn’t it an attempt to sing what has accumulated in the baby’s soul, to share your feelings with the world?
But the baby got to the pans and selflessly knocks on them with a ladle. Why does a child have so much harm? Does he deliberately piss off adults by causing headaches with noise? Of course not.
A wise adult understands that the kid is doing important creative work - with his own hands he learns to extract various sounds, compares them, puts them into a certain pattern. Let him do it clumsily for now, but look how he tries!
And if next time, instead of a pan, offer him a tambourine, castanets or triangles? You can arrange a real small orchestra with your child and play an amazing melody.
Drawing is a touch of creativity
And children also love to draw. They also begin to engage in this type of activity from early childhood. And if, while eating, the baby purposefully stains the table with jam, spreads a puddle of juice with his finger, smears porridge on his head and clothes, perhaps he is already trying himself as an artist.
Very tiny toddlers can be given finger paints at this age, which are easily washed off furniture and hands and easily washed off clothes and upholstery. And the wallpaper in the children's room is best replaced with cheap ones that you won't mind changing in a year.
Kids who are already deftly holding a pencil in their fist should be offered paper and shown how great this “magic wand” can do amazing things on a white field.
And let the child first just draw on the sheet with pencils or put shapeless spots with a brush. The main thing in this activity is not the result, but the goal that itputs in front of him.
Classes of fine arts in kindergarten
In the classroom, children are no longer just drawing. They perform creative work on a topic given by the teacher. It can be a landscape or a still life, a plot painting depicting people, animals, fairy-tale characters or household items.
Children's creative works are interesting, in which the teacher does not set a clearly defined task - to draw a specific object, but offers to independently come up with a concept for a picture on one or another, fairly broad, topic. These may be the topics “We do not want war!”, “Why do we need to follow the rules of the road?”, “Take care of nature, because it is our home!” and others.
The words "sculpt" and "create" are often synonymous
To fine art, as mentioned above, modeling is also included. With the help of plasticine, clay, polymer masses, s alt dough, cold porcelain, they try to fashion what they see, love, what adults told or read about, which fantasy tells. Such creative works of children can tell a lot about their inner world. That is why it is so important to give the kids the opportunity to sculpt not only on a given topic, but also according to their own plan.
Collective creativity of children
Everyone noticed that kids sometimes do something together. Here in the sandbox they are building a town or laying a highway, building fortresses out of snow. This type of activity not only allows you to reveal the creativepotential, but also teaches them how to work in a team, which will be so useful to them in their future adult life.
You should use this for educational purposes in the classroom. For example, the application “Bird Town” can turn out to be wonderful if the guys independently paste birds cut out of paper, their nests, flowers, leaves on the branches of a tree or in the grass under it on paper paper! This is a great team work. A do-it-yourself panel made and hung on the wall will become the pride of the kids, their parents and teachers.
Exhibitions of children's crafts
In children's institutions, a competition of creative works on a certain topic is often held. It can be very different. For example, “Competition of crafts from natural materials”, “We create fairy-tale characters from vegetables”, “Magic cardboard”, “What can be made from plastic bottles?” and others.
Children and teenagers purposefully learn to construct objects, compositions from improvised materials that can be used in everyday life or as home decoration. It is very important to set a task for the children, to show examples of work already done by someone, to explain that the option that is made according to one’s own plan is more valuable, and not copied.
It is interesting that students' creative works are often so unexpected in solutions, individual and so masterfully executed that adults sometimes do not believe in the authorship of a student.
Children learn the world through play
All kids loverole-playing games. Participating in them, they play whole impromptu performances. But a smart teacher will not let this type of creative activity take its course.
In all children's groups, a special creative work plan is being developed in this area. It must indicate the goals that the teacher seeks to achieve through the game, the necessary skills and abilities of the participants, which they consolidate or learn in the course of the action, methodological techniques.
For example, the creative game "Shop" is included in the plan. The teacher sets the following goals:
- Introducing the work of adults who work in the store.
- Developing cultural communication skills in retail outlets.
- Fixing the names of products, classifying them by quality.
Preparatory methodological techniques used to organize a didactic role-playing game can be as follows:
- Targeted trip to the store.
- Talk to children about what they buy at retail outlets.
- Modeling vegetables and fruits from plasticine.
- Drawing on the theme "We went to the store."
- Edible-inedible ball game.
- Didactic table lotto "What products are made of".
Role-playing games are used not only in kindergartens and elementary grades. They are very effective in learning foreign languages. Also, even high school students really like the game of teachers in the classroom - it teaches teenagers to relax, develops the skill of speaking in front of an audience, evaluative ability and reviewing other people's answers.
And everyone's favorite game "The Sea Worries", when the host asks to show various figures, reveals the real acting talent in the players.
Creative work - concert
Often in groups you need to hold a concert on your own. It is good if all members of a small society know each other and know who is capable of what. But if the team is still very young, if it only takes a couple of days, as it happens in summer camps at the beginning of a shift? Then the Chamomile game will help organize such a creative business.
You just need to cut out a lot of petals from cardboard and lay them out on the table or fasten them with buttons on the wall. On the back of each, you need to write a task: read poetry, sing, dance, portray an animal, tell a funny story, and so on. Children take turns choosing a petal for themselves and preparing their performance. Some group with each other. The ability to replace one task with another should not be prohibited, after all, this is a creative work, not an exam.
Verbal creativity
This view is a separate item. Even adults, not everyone knows how to talk interestingly about what they see, let alone invent something. But to develop this talent is required for everyone from early childhood.
Children try to compose fairy tales, poems, fables - it's wonderful! Wise adults immediately write down all their creations. And even if Bazhov or Dragunsky, Pushkin or Rozhdestvensky do not later grow out of the baby, the first literary experience will remainpleasant memory.
But the skill of presenting, formulating, writing descriptions will be required both by a child at school and by an adult in the future. Therefore, it is worth paying special attention to retelling and presentation, compiling stories from pictures.
Research work
The process of knowing the world is constantly happening, from birth to old age. At each age, it has its own volume and its own rate of assimilation of the new. However, it almost never stops.
Here the baby crumples and tears the newspaper, puts fingers and toys in his mouth. This is serious research work. The kid receives a lot of sensations, knowledge. But he is still too young to draw conclusions understandable to others.
Later, when the child becomes fluent in speech, his research activities should be directed in the right direction. From early childhood, children should learn to systematize the acquired knowledge. Whether in written or printed form, such a research paper may be called a scientific work.
The baby can conduct the first experiments with bulbs by placing cups with plants on the windowsill. Daily results of observations should be recorded under the supervision of an adult using notes or drawings. The finished version of the report is already a real research work.
You can organize creative research in the field of culture and art. For example, a comparison of drawings and ornaments on dishes will be an interesting topic. Here is a beginner "scientist"masters comparative analysis, learns to find the complex in the simple, and the simple in the complex.
Older children and research topics tend to be more difficult. These can be analyzes of works of art and music, experiments with chemical elements, collection and systematization of plant care methods and other interesting options.
Briefly about the main things
Every person has a creative potential. And the task of educators, parents, teachers is to help him open up with the help of creative tasks, collective deeds, to give impetus to the development of the talents of the growing personality.
