Op 2.17
OP 2.17: Contribute to the support of children’s creative development
1. Describe why creative development is important to children’s learning
Children’s creativity must be extended by the provision of support for their curiosity, exploration and play. They must be provided with opportunities to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings, for example, through a variety of art, music, movement, dance, imaginative and role-play activities, mathematics, and design and technology.
What Creative Development means for children • Creativity is about taking risks and making connections and is strongly linked to play. • 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 such as crayons, paints, scissors, words, sounds, movement, props and make-believe. • Creativity involves children in initiating their own learning and making choices and decisions. • Children’s responses to what they see, hear and experience through their senses are individual and the way they represent their experiences is unique and valuable. • Being creative enables babies and children to explore many processes, media and materials and to make new things 2. Describe how creative development links to other area’s of learning and development within the framework related to own work setting
Creative development can link to many other areas of development. For example, through sand play the children are developing a whole range of skills, they are using their physical development to manipulate and mould the sand, they are developing their personal, social, communication, language & literacy skills through playing together and chattering to one another learning to share and take turns with utensils they are also developing their problem solving, reasoning and numeracy skills through building the sand up to make sand castles.
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1. Describe why creative development is important to children’s learning
Children’s creativity must be extended by the provision of support for their curiosity, exploration and play. They must be provided with opportunities to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings, for example, through a variety of art, music, movement, dance, imaginative and role-play activities, mathematics, and design and technology.
What Creative Development means for children • Creativity is about taking risks and making connections and is strongly linked to play. • 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 such as crayons, paints, scissors, words, sounds, movement, props and make-believe. • Creativity involves children in initiating their own learning and making choices and decisions. • Children’s responses to what they see, hear and experience through their senses are individual and the way they represent their experiences is unique and valuable. • Being creative enables babies and children to explore many processes, media and materials and to make new things 2. Describe how creative development links to other area’s of learning and development within the framework related to own work setting
Creative development can link to many other areas of development. For example, through sand play the children are developing a whole range of skills, they are using their physical development to manipulate and mould the sand, they are developing their personal, social, communication, language & literacy skills through playing together and chattering to one another learning to share and take turns with utensils they are also developing their problem solving, reasoning and numeracy skills through building the sand up to make sand castles.
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