Enhancing Children's Growth: The Role of Creativity in Curriculum

This essay delves into the significance of creativity in children's development, highlighting its role in self-expression and emotional well-being. It examines how creative arts and crafts enhance motor skills, coordination, and sensory exploration. The essay discusses the benefits of creative activities in fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and social skills, emphasizing the importance of a creative curriculum in helping children develop concentration, communication, and teamwork abilities. While acknowledging potential drawbacks such as developmental delays and the dilution of focus, the essay argues that the positive impacts of creativity, including the development of mathematical skills, emotional expression, and fine motor skills, outweigh the negatives. The essay further explores how activities like drama, music, block play, and creative art contribute to children's physical, emotional, intellectual, and social development, reinforcing the idea that fostering creativity is essential for a child's overall growth.

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Creativity can be described as the freest form of the self-expression. Researchers are of
the opinion to children that there is nothing more satisfying for the children than to be able to
express themselves openly and without judgments. The capability of the children to be creative
as well as to create something from personal feelings and experiences help in reflecting the and
thereby nurturing the emotional health of the children (Bruce, 2011). It is indeed true that the
experiences that the children gain during their first years of the life can significantly help in
enhancing the development of their creativity. This assignment will mainly shed more light on
the importance of creativity in the children, the different advantages and disadvantages
associated with it along with the different ways by which creative curriculum help in developing
the children for their future lives.
Researchers are of the opinion that various creative arts as well as crafts can pave the way
for the children for encouraging the movement as well as developing fine motor skills,
coordination and even control. During the times when children are seen manipulating tools as
well as exploring constructions and assembling, they become unconsciously involved in the
different types of physical interaction with that of the surrounding (Mayesky, 2015). They are
seen to use different types of senses for learning about the surrounding as well as connecting
with the things they already know.
It has been seen in the studies that younger kids can utilize different types of creative arts
and various types of tools for expressing their internal thoughts that they are unable to share
verbally. This can be considered as one of the best ways by which creative arts can be seen to be
helpful for the children in releasing their feelings by mainly putting them in the method of the
particular as well as specific piece of work (Barbot, Lubart & Besancon, 2016). Such kind of
creative activities also make them feel proud that they have achieved a lot and helping them to

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get the mastery of their surrounding environment when they can successfully construct any
particular interesting thing. This makes the children gain their confidence as well as raise self-
esteem.
At the very basic level, it is seen that the children gradually tend to develop concentration
and accordingly develop the abilities for measuring and sorting important things. They want to
make sense of the world around them and while doing so the children are seen to ask themselves
about different types of very basic questions. They are also seen to get involved in the activities
which help in fostering the understanding of the very basic concepts. Researchers have seen that
as children are seen to get older, they also tend to learn many new critical thinking and problem
solving skills (Runco, 2014). In such a scenario, creative curriculum that should be developed by
experienced and knowledgeable educators would be helpful in consideration of the alternatives.
These would be also helping them to analyze and decide about the ways of applying them in the
appropriate contexts.
When children stay together in the creative environment, children are seen to learn and
thereby share and interact with each other. These become the basic aspects of social learning.
Development of creative skills in dancing, singing as well as drama acting help in implying
development of indispensable social skills like that of communication, sympathy as well as
respects (Van Hoom, 2014).
Every children needs to be highly creative in gaining the freedom of committing
themselves to the efforts completely and thereby making their activities entirely their own. The
process of self-expression is extremely useful in their procedure of self-expression. Creative
experiences are helping can help the children in the expressing as well as coping with their own

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feelings (Fuchs, 2017). The creative approach of the children may also help the teachers to
develop the knowledge about what the children are feeling as well as thinking. Creativity also
has the potential for fostering mental growth in the children mainly by providing opportunities
for trying out new ideas as well as new ways thinking as well as problem solving. Creative
activities are also seen to help in the acknowledging and celebrating the uniqueness of the
children as well as their diversity. It also helps in offering the excellent opportunities for
personalizing the teaching as well as focusing on each of the child individually.
Creativity helps in forming developmental skills. Children are seen to become more eager
in learning about the world around them. Every types of new shape, color and even sound is a
new experience for them. When teachers give new toys to the children that are educational and
help in stimulating their senses, they become more curious and tend to venture them helping in
developing their creativity. Brain-boosting and creative toys like that of puzzles as well as legos
are not only enjoyable but also educational for the children (Sali et al., 2015). These help in
developing their manual dexterity but also help them in learning their critical thinking skills
solving creative puzzles helps in boosting the self-esteem and thereby gives them a sense of
pride. Moreover, playing with the creative toys specially dolls can help the children to learn
empathy. When the children are seen to play, they also learn about the ways of relating to that of
the others, negotiate their roles and obey different rules. Creative playing helps in fulfilling the
emotional needs of the child that helps them in developing a sense of accomplishment in the
children. Developmental as well as emotional toys help in teaching children about the ways of
expressing their emotional properly (Hashim et al., 2016).
Many of the researchers are of the opinion that creative activities also result in the
developmental delay. Having too many creative actions and toys might make children attracted

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towards playing only hindering their abilities to concentrate on regularized studies and anything
which have monotonous outlook to them. It also hampers attention-seeking ability where
children spend more time in creative activities and do not get scope for attention development
activities. Creative activities may take a large amount of time that might impede other actions
important actions of daily life disrupting the child’s sense of development of disciplines and
following every day activities for ensuring smooth flow of regular activities. Another negative
disadvantage of creativity is that when children are full of too many creative ideas that are
competing against each other (Stylianidou et al., 2018). This often makes it difficult for the
children to discard one or more of their creative thinking and ideas and thereby pin their hopes
for single one. They might try to mix up their ideas and might become impatient if they cannot
carry out their creative thinking and activities completely. This might result in the loss of focus,
impact and concentration which results in the dilution of their though process. Excessive
creativity might help in development of evil thoughts in the children that if not controlled or
discussed might result in harming the child himself as well as others in his surroundings
(Sharma, 2016).
I believe that creativity should be supported in children as it helps in development of the
different aspects of the children. I have gone through evidence-based studies that had shown that
creative activities help in developing mathematics skills like measuring, sorting as well as
determining size and shape. It helps in developing complex thinking skills in children. Moreover,
creative activities like painting, drawing, cutting as well as pasting and all others help in
developing fine motor skills in the children. It also acts as positive outlets for expressing their
emotions. I have also seen from evidences that it also helps in development of communication
skills as creativity provides a fun and supportive environment increasing interaction with other

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children as well as with the elders. Therefore, i would be supporting creativity as it helps in
overall development of children.
Children are seen to enjoy different drama activities as a form of self-expression
especially during the times when they reach the elementary school age. Researchers are of the
opinion that during this stage, they have solid imaginative abilities and therefore they are seen to
be excited to take part in the small drama plays. They are seen to use stories as well as songs as a
cornerstone for their drama play (Spodec & Saracho, 2014). Studies have shown that children
irrespective of whether they are active participants or whether they are spectators, performing
arts are always seen to develop imagination and help them to make sense of the world as such.
Children are also seen to enjoy being engaged in different pretend play activities that imply
acting out the stories with the playful experimentation of the ideas and the emotions.
Music learning is seen to be an important part of the creative learning in the present day
generation in the schools as children are seen to enjoy a lot because their love for music is
intrinsic. Singing is seen to help the children in feeling the differences between slow and fast as
well as loud and soft. During the times of music classes, they are seen to enjoy a lot to melodic
music with different forms of repetition and rhythms (Johnson et al., 2015). They gradually get
acquainted with the musical instruments and are therefore seen to develop understanding about
the ways sound is produced and the ways it change depending upon the type of the instruments
played. Researchers are of the opinion that with the help of the creative activities, young children
get the scope to learn about self-control as well as concentration and helps in building a sense of
teamwork.

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Block area is one of the most significant ways that ensures children to get engaged in
creative development in the construction play. Playing with blocks gives the scope of promoting
better spatial reasoning in the children. Not only that, structured play also helps in developing
and enhancing of the cognitive flexibility which is actually the ability of the children to quickly
shift their focus from one of the most important stimulus to that of the another stimulus. It also
helps in the development of language skills. Toy blocks also help in stimulating creative as well
as divergent problem solving (Cook et al., 2017). Cooperative construction also helps in playing
children in improvement of the social skills and such children are also seen to help the children
to become better mathematicians.
Creative art is one of the most important activity areas that help the children in all the
areas of development. Researchers are of the opinion that creative art areas help in supporting the
large and small muscle development of the children and helps in developing their eye-hand
coordination. Using of crayons, markers and paintbrushes help in developing fine motor skills
(Black et al., 20170. It also helps in developing social aspects of the children helping them to
learn and thereby interact with others for being responsible for cleaning up and putting materials
away that are some of the positive and important changes helping in social learning. It also helps
in emotional development. With the help of the creative art, they are able to represent
experiences that they cannot verbalize. Moreover, when leaders value the creativity of the
children, the children are seen to feel valued as people and this helps in developing their self-
esteem. Children’s active imagination is also seen to take the form of art (Wyse & Ferrari, 2015).
Creativity is one of the most important aspects in the development of children. It helps
children in four important domains like in physical, emotional, intellectual as well as social
development. The positive aspects associated with creativity in the life of children are more in

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comparison to that of the negative aspects and hence they are seen to provide curriculum
activities that need to be developed should have creative scopes for children. Children can enjoy
creativity in different domains like during drama plays, creative art activities, and music sessions
as well as during block playing. Professionals should therefore take strategies that help to induce
creativity in children.

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