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How to raise an imaginative child.

How to raise an imaginative child

How to raise an imaginative child
Kiara has always been able to occupy herself. She will happily spend hours outside talking to herself, playing with her toys, making up games and generally using her imagination as her friend. Jack is pretty similar, he will also happily play for ages with his action men, or more recently his growing Lego collection.

It is rather entertaining listening to the two of them when they are playing. I love that the two of them are able to play like this,using their imagination to create scenarios and games. There are times they join forces and make up games to play that only the two of them understand.

Here are a few ways you can encourage your child to use their imagination more.

Make up stories with them. David makes up stories every night for Jack, he loves them. He laughs hysterically at them and David allows him to suggest ideas for the story. We often make up stories in the car, often they are complete nonsense but the kids love them and they all add in their little bit. This is not only a fun activity but they have to plan and think about what comes next or what they want to add.

Leave them be. We often think we need to constantly be with our children, providing them with toys and ideas of things to do but often when we just leave them, they are able to entertain themselves. There are times when I have been cooking or working and pop my head out to check on everyone and Jack’s dinosaurs are raging war with the action hero’s and Kiara has built a mansion from empty boxes.

How to raise an imaginative child

With this comes a tolerance for the mess. Kiara loves playing with sand and water and bugs, there is rarely a time when I don’t have containers of snails, worms or some other bug all over my home. Jack’s Lego men are all over, in his bed, in the bathroom, in my bed, next to the microwave – it almost as if the toys are watching me.

Anything can be used for imaginary play. Your child does not need a toy room full of toys to develop his imagination. Often it is the tupperware cupboard or the empty TV box that provide the most fun. When you do buy toys though, make sure to chose items that encourage their imagination. The My Smart Kid boxes provide a great selection of toys aimed not only at developing imagination but also at educational play.

How to raise an imaginative child

Read! Read! Read!. This is where Cameron is leaps and bounds ahead of all of us. He gets lost in the worlds of his books. We don’t read as much as we could to the children but there are hundreds of books all over the house that they pull out and “read”. Emma is loving books at the moment and often sits down and pages through them. Reading is one of the best ways to develop imagination so read to your child.

 

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