CREATIVE HIGHLIGHT
Art/Creative Play Space: For some children, this
will just be reams of paper and organized
art supplies such as pencils, pens, erasers,
and crayons. Others prefer painting,
origami, puppetry, comic making, crafting,
or music. The key is to make a designated
area where his or her supplies are all
organized and easily located. My son used
a desk in his bedroom to create his crafty
projects such as foam people and custom
robots. However, when his desk got taken
over by his school books when the schools
closed for the pandemic, I noticed that he
stopped crafting. He made a remark that
he wanted to finish a project he’d been
working on but his desk was covered in
school books and I offered to let him use the
dining room table. “Nah,” he said, “it’s not
the same. All my supplies are in my room.”
This proved to me that the designated
space was integral to his creativity.
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