7 Ways to Educate a Creative Personality
Give the child a dirty watercolor, paint the wallpaper and make the giraffe bright blue
Fold and divide numbers and read Pushkinthe child will be taught at school. But every mom with every dad wants their child to grow up happy, with imagination, with a head full of thoughts and sudden ideas, so that our heir will become an interesting living person who is not afraid to create. Because without "creators" no scientific hypothesis will be born, no one company will advance in the market. It is creativity that will help a child to try, make attempts, decide, experiment.
CREATE! How can we help our children grow creative people?
Do not prohibit painting and decorating!
Parents love to spoil everything. "Carefully draw, do not stain clothes!" No! Smudge, do not get distracted by clothes, clothes are nonsense when you paint and paint. The main thing is to create. This, of course, is reasonable. To cut the "noodles" of my mother's French scarves can be boldly forbidden, but then offer something in return - something that can be cut into "noodles." Do not say "do not paint on wallpaper", all children like to draw on wallpaper. In advance, agree that you can decorate wallpaper with large coloring sheets (you can print them from the Internet or buy fashionable color posters right away), and attach an easel board to the door, for example.
If you do not tilt and do not prohibit, the child will understand that it is possible to try.
To help the artist!
Do everything to make the child comfortable to draw,paint. Equip the workplace, put the apron and armlets on the artist, put the oilcloth on the table if you are afraid that it will get dirty. If you paint large "canvases" on the floor, cover the floor.
The child will feel that his work needs someone and is interesting.
Do not return "from heaven to earth"
"Pyramid from pots? So do not! Take the blocks, they are supposed to make a pyramid. " "Why did you wrap the scarf around your head?" So do not wear! "Wear, build from pots and paint giraffe in lilac, and mouse - in green. Give the opportunity to try and express yourself. And suddenly you have a future fashion designer, a builder or an abstractionist? "Zaviral" ideas have repeatedly saved mankind and glorified geniuses. Let the child believe in yourself and your ideas. This is important not only for creativity, but also for self-esteem.
Include fantasy always and everywhere
You have a whole store of dirty sticks near the door(magic staffs and swords)? Excellent. You grow a dreamer. Walk in the park - collect spiky chestnuts, make them hedgehogs or little men. In autumn, collect the leaves. In winter - sculpt amazing snowmen, and not classic snow women. And what do clouds in the sky look like? And how does the train say when it's on? And let's think up funny names for all your toys, let's paint these seals in unusual colors, let's finish the book with the tasks that are missing ... And so on.
Forms? Only uncertain!
It's about toddlers. The best toys are usually balls, ringlets, cubes - something from which you can build, create. It is also better to construct a cot for pupsik from pads and boxes. A house for dolls can be built from a large cardboard box, and curtains on the windows come out of cellophane bags. From assignments on paper, choose those where you need to draw, connect points, continue, come up ... 
Painting with the whole family
The best motivation for children of all ages andpeoples - an example of my mother and father. If children see how you paint still life on the day off or paint Van Gogh's canvases, and that you like it, your creativity pleases and calms, the children will also take pencils in their hands.
Begin with coloring pages
It happens that children are afraid of a white sheet of paper. Accustomed to getting a clear assignment in a kindergarten or at school, children do not know where to start, if there is no job, that is, the freedom of creativity frightens them. In this case, coloring will help. Coloring accustoms to hold a pencil, choose a color, choose a shape and stay in the contours. And then you can "turn around" on a white sheet of paper and start creating freely! 
BTW
Why coloring develops
They are taught to structure. The child learns different shapes, colors.
They help to train the coordination of movements - the hand becomes firm, the fingers learn to hold the pencil within the contours.
They teach you to concentrate, be diligent and considerate.
They help express their emotions when a child chooses colors.
Color therapy. Some colors soothe, others - awaken and cheer up.
They are taught to bring the matter to an end. Until you finish painting the whole picture, you do not know what will turn out.
They teach you how to do the job according to the rules (especially if the colors are given, if the coloring is by numbers, by letters, by examples).
They form a taste. The child learns to select colors so that the objects in the picture look beautiful.
