Expand Your Childrens Learning Opportunities Through Creative PlayAre we turning play into work? For us and for our kids. 
How did we turn “play” into an expensive and stressful endeavor? No wonder kids just want to sit and zone out in front of the television or a video game. At least Mom or Dad isn’t trying to make them do something. The idea of play is to relax, have fun, laugh, imagine, create, Our kids’ schedules are as stressful and demanding as are ours. Creative play is an excellent way to boost your childrens learning. Need some ideas?
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Try your hand at some creative crafts. Kids Crafty Creations is a fabulous resource dedicated to easy and inexpensive kids crafts and information on the importance of play and arts and crafts for child development. You can never go wrong with the fabulous What if Game.
Let your child’s room be a haven, where an imagination can run wild all on its own. A place where pirates and monsters roam. Where you'll find tea parties with bears and rabbits or picnics with elves and gnomes. 
Where fantasy drawings hug every wall. Whatever brews your child’s imagination - let that happen in their room - leave the television in another room. If not, it will always be the default.
When children are allowed to rely on themselves at playtime — improvising, creating, making up stories and games, they're actually developing critical cognitive skills. Let their creative spirit fly! An active imagination is the only prerequisite. It turns out that psychologists now agree that good old fashioned play was good for us. Wow! Experts acknowledge that the lack of creative play is having negative consequences on childrens learning overall.
Creative play develops imagination and creativity. The understanding of principles of math and science, as well as social and emotional development all flow from creativity and imagination when we’re young. The rise in obesity and overweight children is a direct link to the lack of creative play which is, more often than not, active play, as well. Your imagination is a muscle - use it or lose it. Many schools now are eliminating recess. Not enough time, they say. Test scores and curriculum needs are so demanding. So sad! In reality, there is not enough time not to have recess. Studies have shown that childrens learning is enhanced when they have a break. Don’t we all? Everyone’s mind needs a chance to regroup. Even the mind of a young child - especially the mind of a young child. 
There is no right or wrong way to play. Play is improvisational, free spirited, creative and spontaneous. Like dreaming, - chasing buffalo one minute or soaring over roof tops on fairy wings the next. It doesn’t have to make sense - it just has to be. Let's Play! ...that's what a youngster shouts when they are ready for fun! Body Power + Brain Power = BRILLIANCE Do you have a creative play idea to share? I’m sure others would love to hear. 
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