Creative Development

Creative development is created through aspects such as responding to experiences, expressing and communicating ideas, developing imagination and exploring media and materials. Children benefit from free play and unstructured art activities, but left entirely to their own devices children’s play and artwork can become routine and repetitive. To solve this problem children need stimulation and creative problems to solve. Adults can help children to develop their creative skills through play by providing activities and creative problems to solve, creating stimulation.

'Creativity emerges as children become absorbed in action and explorations of their own ideas, expressing them through movement, making and transforming things using media and materials.' (Early Years Matters, 2007). An example of an activity that is used to help creative development would be allowing children to use clay to make their own model of an object. By letting the children make their own individual model, they develop physical manipulation and physical actions by squeezing, moulding and cutting the clay. They also share skills and knowledge with each other which helps them learn and improve on their problem solving. This activity helps the children learn because they enjoy the sensory qualities and they are able to have fun and use their own creative ideas whilst making the models. 

Reference;

http://wales.gov.uk/topics/educationandskills/earlyyearshome/foundation-phase/?lang=en