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Report Creativity
Original Post
Creativity - 31-01-07 19:45
by: joshuajones
Hi catpuss
creativity to me (and this is a personal interpretation) means the ability to express ones thoughts, emotions and imagination in a way that the individual wants to. There is no right or wrong way to express these things. Creativity is about being able to use your body, materials, resources in any way that you see fit and produce anything that you want at the end of it. We tend to get caught up in creativity producing something that we recognise. ie a painting of a daffodil should look like a daffodil to everyone that sees it. But we don't all see things in the same way, how one person perceives a daffodil to look may not be the same as another person. To help children develop their own creativity we need to give them the resources and materials to experiment with without a directional approach. Music and movement should be about the child's interpretation of the music, the mood, the emotion, what they do is not wrong for them, though it may be for you. Creativity is about the process and not the end result. Experimentation, personal interpretation, thinking for yourself is creativity, not mass produced cards, pictures, movements etc. Maybe whacky, but hope it helps.