Plan and provide a creative experience for a child. If you are not currently working in a child care setting, plan an experience for your child, a niece or nephew, or the child of a friend. Use the worksheet that follows to guide you through the process of: • Identifying the child’s needs • Planning a creative experience for the child • Evaluating the experience you planned The Child Select one child. The child is ______ year(s)/ month(s) old. Observe this child to determine the stage of creative development and the child’s creative interests. This is easiest to see in the way the child uses materials when drawing, painting, modelling, or building with blocks. Select an experience in which the child chooses the materials and what to do with the materials. 1. What experience(s) I observed: 2. How was the child using the materials? (Be specific.): 3. Based on my observations, the child/s stage of creative development seems to be (put a check in the blank) ____ Basic Exploration ____ Non-representative ____ Representative Planning a Creative Experience 1. Briefly outline an open-ended, creative experience that will provide another opportunity for the child’s creative development. 2. List the materials you will provide. 3. Is this experience appropriate to the child’s stage of creative development? How? * Is it open-ended to encourage creativity? How? * When the child is using the materials, what questions might you ask to promote creativity? Write at least one question that would encourage the child to give a creative response. Remember the child’s stage of creative development. Providing for the Creative Experience 1. Carry out this open-ended experience with the child. Afterward, record the following information: 2. Briefly describe how the child explored the activity you had outlined. 3. Developmentally, what skills did the child practise during the creative experience? 4. What could the child do on their own? What did he or she need help with? * Was the activity appropriate for the age and developmental level of the child? If not, why? * Why is it important to support children’s creative development? * What might discourage children from using materials creatively? * What did you learn about yourself through this activity?
Plan and provide a creative experience for a child. If you are not currently working in a child care setting, plan an
experience for your child, a niece or nephew, or the child of a friend.
Use the worksheet that follows to guide you through the process of:
• Identifying the child’s needs
• Planning a creative experience for the child
• Evaluating the experience you planned
The Child
Select one child. The child is ______ year(s)/ month(s) old.
Observe this child to determine the stage of creative development and the child’s creative interests. This is easiest
to see in the way the child uses materials when drawing, painting, modelling, or building with blocks. Select an
experience in which the child chooses the materials and what to do with the materials.
1. What experience(s) I observed:
2. How was the child using the materials? (Be specific.):
3. Based on my observations, the child/s stage of creative development seems to be (put a check in the blank)
____ Basic Exploration ____ Non-representative ____ Representative
Planning a Creative Experience
1. Briefly outline an open-ended, creative experience that will provide another opportunity for the child’s creative
development.
2. List the materials you will provide.
3. Is this experience appropriate to the child’s stage of creative development? How?
* Is it open-ended to encourage creativity? How?
* When the child is using the materials, what questions might you ask to promote creativity? Write at least one
question that would encourage the child to give a creative response. Remember the child’s stage of creative
development.
Providing for the Creative Experience
1. Carry out this open-ended experience with the child. Afterward, record the following information:
2. Briefly describe how the child explored the activity you had outlined.
3. Developmentally, what skills did the child practise during the creative experience?
4. What could the child do on their own? What did he or she need help with?
* Was the activity appropriate for the age and developmental level of the child? If not, why?
* Why is it important to support children’s creative development?
* What might discourage children from using materials creatively?
* What did you learn about yourself through this activity?
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