Unlike personality traits, temperament traits and gender differences, every child is born with creativity. As children grow, they are highly creative, yet, as their executive function matures, and their natural inhibition becomes more controlled, they tend to be more guarded about their creative endeavors. Creativity is a great asset and is something that we want to preserve.  Creativity helps children solve problems, gives them an artistic outlet and makes life fun.  Here are some tips of how parents and caregivers can nurture creativity in children.
Nurturing creativity in babies and young children ages 0 ? 5
Children this age love to play with anything and everything. They may reconfigure and recombine toys to suit their play, using and enjoying them differently than the manufacturer intended. Parents must allow this combination, even though they might prefer to keep toys organized and sorted. My kids would mash the play-dough in the sandbox to make ?breaded patties.? Yes, it ruined the play-dough, but they learned about the adherence properties of sand to gooey materials. They would tape math pattern blocks together to make spaceships, although the blocks were intended to demonstrate fractions. And, oh, what they could do with a roll of tape! They would make gondola cars out of Lego blocks, sticking roll after roll of tape across the kitchen counters. Use open-ended unstructured play materials. Such toys have no one right way of being played with and they offer excell...