Characteristics of children's creative thinking
1, due to the limitation of children's physical and mental development, children's creative ability and willpower are weak, so children's creative activities are not easy to last, and their creative wishes come and go quickly, often fleeting. If there is timely guidance and encouragement from adults, children's creative ability will develop forward.
2, children like fantasy, imaginative, their creative thinking is often caused by creative imagination, but their psychology is more casual, greatly influenced by interest, interest can inspire children's intelligence, stimulate the enthusiasm of creation, therefore, teachers should be good at maintaining children's interest and mobilizing children's interest.
3. Because of the different roles and influences of environment, education and heredity, children's creative thinking level varies greatly. For example, some children are good at creating stories, while others are good at artistic creation. If we can discover and cultivate these children's creative talents as soon as possible, it will be very beneficial to their development. Generally speaking, as long as the environment and education play a positive role, their creative thinking will develop greatly, but this cannot be based on their temporary performance.
The Importance of Cultivating Children's Creative Thinking
Creativity runs through all aspects of life. The latest research in the United States points out that imagination quotient can predict the future academic success of a baby more accurately than IQ. Therefore, cultivating the baby's creativity is the best thing that mom and dad can do for him. Let your baby become an original thinker, and let him understand from an early age that there is not only one correct answer to many questions. When the baby grows up, he will have the ability to solve problems creatively and create something different. Creativity itself will make him feel happy and happy all his life.
0-6 years old is a critical period for the development of baby's creative thinking.
Torrance, an American expert on creative thinking, also found that 3-5 years old is a period of rapid development of baby's creative ability, and there is a gradual decline after 5 years old. Babies in our country also have the phenomenon of rising first and then falling. Why on earth is this? The influence of family and school has caused this phenomenon. Babies' main activities in kindergarten or family in infancy are mainly games. Parents and teachers rarely restrict the baby's play activities, and the baby has a lot of free space to play, think and play at will. At this time, parents and teachers will not interfere too much with the baby's thoughts or actions, and the baby will not be denied and accused by others because of his whimsy. So creative thinking is developing very well. But as the baby grows older, the baby will begin to face learning activities, and then parents and teachers will become? Is it serious? Get up, because they are strong at this time.
It is important for the baby to master more knowledge and pay more attention to whether the baby can think correctly. They will tell the baby what is right and what is wrong; What to do and what not to do. Because of the unified standards, the baby's behavior is always supervised and evaluated by adults. Babies will be criticized and punished when they don't do what adults teach them. So the baby gradually gave up his own in order to cater to adults? Thinking? Obediently think towards the answer that adults want, so as to get the appreciation and reward of adults. Therefore, the development of creative thinking is limited.
How to Cultivate Children's Creative Thinking
1, create good conditions to develop the baby's movements.
The brain is the main body of thinking, and the development of movements, especially the fine movements of limbs, plays a catalytic role in the flexibility of the brain. Just like the big muscles and fine movements in the creative thinking course of Youbeile, this is the role.
2. Enrich social experience
Knowledge comes from life, and daily life experience will provide rich materials for baby's thinking.
Step 3 inspire thinking
Inspire your baby to think of simple things in daily life through parents and Youbeile courses.
4. Use stories to trigger the baby's association
Stories are a form that babies like, and it is an ideal way to cultivate creative thinking to let them continue to tell stories.
5. create suspicion.
For example, Youbeile's creative thinking course has specially set up some situational problems for the baby to try to solve by himself. For example, telling a story to a baby, the child accidentally fell into a small pit while playing with the ball. At this time, you can ask your baby: What are the ways to get the ball out? What will the baby say? With your hands? 、? Pick with a stick? 、? Hook with an iron hook Pour water into the pit to make the ball float? Wait, smart babies even say? Call the elephant to the zoo and suck it out with its nose? These are all manifestations of creative thinking.
6. Use games for education.
For example, in the creative thinking course of Youbeile, a spoon, a leather tube and two buckets (one filled with water and one empty bucket) are prepared for the baby with high-intelligence teaching AIDS, and the baby is required to transfer the water from one bucket to another as soon as possible, but it cannot be poured. Under normal circumstances, the baby will scoop it with a spoon. At this time, the instructor of Youbeile will teach the baby to insert one end of the hose into the bucket filled with water and the other end into the empty bucket, and the water will flow into the empty bucket along the hose. This is a different way to solve the problem.
7. Correct mistakes with pictures
For example, the scene analysis link in the creative thinking course of Youbeile: Are you dressed correctly? Train your baby's flexibility, agility, accuracy and creativity by moving animal body parts, guessing riddles, asking questions coherently, classifying and comparing, and finding similarities and differences.
Games that can cultivate children's creative thinking
1. Let your wisdom run freely.
Mystery bag (2 ~ 6 years old): blindfold the child and let him identify the contents of the bag with smell, touch and taste. Smell it with your nose. Is it dry rice, garlic or onion? Touch it with your hands. Are they feathers, shells or cotton balls? Bite with your mouth. Is it apple slices, pear slices or salted radish slices? Parents can take turns to take care of their children.
Who is he? (over 7 years old): Write down the name of a historical celebrity, mythical figure, cartoon character or famous person in the film and television industry and stick it on the child's back. Then let him ask you some questions, and you can only answer them? Right? Or? No? . By answering, he can guess who this person is.
Build a machine (over 3 years old): use the insert to build an airplane, a car, a motorcycle or a tank by imagination. One person acts as the power part, imitating the sound of the machine, and other family members act as other parts, operating the machine, and then let the children guess what this commodity is. You can also play with the children of your neighbors or friends.
2. Give full play to your acting skills.
? Stand up and get down. ? (2 ~ 5 years old): The organizer raised his hand and shouted? Stand up? Someone stood up according to the password, and the organizer shouted? Get down? Others squatted down, and then the organizer said: stand up and you will become a rabbit! ? Others imitate the rabbit's actions according to the password.
It's fun to change an animal or other characters for the second time, and so on.
Wearing a hat (3 ~ 6 years old): Put some chairs, and then put a hat on each chair, with animals, characters in fairy tales and so on painted on it. Then the music began to play. As soon as the music stopped, everyone grabbed a hat and put it on their heads, sitting in the chair. Then take turns to perform according to the characters on the hat, and other children can imitate or supplement other actions.
Alphabet game (over 6 years old): In the order of English letters or Chinese Pinyin, the first child says a word that begins with a sound, and at the same time performs an animal, such as an apple, to eat an apple, or? Aachoo？ And sneezing, others imitate his voice and movements. The second person says words that start with b, such as bananas, peeling bananas. Others imitate. In this way, one letter after another.
3. May you be the king of stories.
Story circle (over 6 years old): children and adults form a circle, and one person is blindfolded? Drummer? Pass the ball to each other, the first catcher tells the beginning of the story, then the ball turns down, the catcher continues to talk for a while, and the ball continues to pass until the story is finished. Older children can tell stories in rhyming sentences.