Outcome 1 Understand the importance of creative development
1. Describe why creative development is important to children’s learning
Creative development is important to a child’s learning because it helps them to use their mind and imagination and express their own ideas, and through playing with their friends it also helps them to understand that all family’s and cultures can be different. It helps them to make connections in their thinking and the way in which they problem solve, by doing things over and over again they reinforce their thinking and learning, they develop self-esteem, confidence, imagination & learning to work together in groups. It puts down the foundations for more complex learning. For example; creative imagination and imaginative play in young children deal with how they respond to dance, stories, music, role-playing and art. Imaginative writing and drawing characters go a long way in developing a child's creativity. Dealing with different colours and painting pictures of different characters build the child's mind and improves her ability to test different colour variations. The creative arts have a significant bearing on the early creative development of a child. Writing skills can also be gained from this. Another activity which can help develop these skills is music and dance creativity, a child's ability to distinguish different sounds such as the banging of a door or the running of tap water and musical sounds that elicit dance movements is important at an early age. Children exposed to different musical tones and patterns of dance movement may be able to adapt quickly to these tunes and mime or sing songs easily from memory. Such children are likely to develop ample creative instincts at an early age. Exploring media and materials can also help development as it is the aspect of a child's creative development in which his reaction to media, pictures, toys