Creative experiences for Children

Creative Experiences for Children 2(1+1)

Lesson 1: Introduction to Creativity

Definitions

Each individual possess creativity to a certain extent. Some children express their creative nature in each step, while few require some stimulation. Creativity may be explained or described as the “process of bringing something new into being”. Creativity is a way of thinking and acting or making or developing or preparing something that is original or new for the individual and valued by that person or others. Creativity is the ability to produce work that is either novel or new (i.e. original, unexpected) and appropriate (i.e. useful, adaptive). It is goal directed, easily flexible, mouldable or manipulation of knowledge in variety of novel or original ways.

All individuals are creative in nature and each one exhibit it different manner. Creativity is the most free form of self-expression and for children the creative process is more important than the finished product. There is nothing more satisfying for children than to be able to express themselves freely or to behave in a free manner. Creative experiences help children to express and cope with their feelings.

A simple definition is that creativity is the ability to imagine or invent something new. It is the ability of bringing about notable changes in things, thoughts and social structure through actions, thinking which result in a situation not previously known to us (Baker, 1962).

Torrance (1961) defined creativity as the process of forming new ideas or hypotheses, testing these ideas or hypotheses and communicating the results. Thus the creativity is the capacity to produce compositions, products or ideas which are new or novel and original in such a way that previously unknown to the producer himself/ herself.

On the whole the creativity is the ability

• To imagine or invent something new or original
• To generate new ideas by combining, changing or reapplying existing ideas.
• To make things that don't exit and to come up with new items.
• To look or observe at everyday items and events in new ways.
• To convert common things special and special things more common.
• It involves fluency and flexibility of thinking, originally perceptiveness of problems and the ability to redefine and elaborate.
  
  
  
  
  

It involves fluency and flexibility of thinking, originally perceptiveness of problems and the ability to redefine and elaborate.