Fostering creativity in children is fundamental, as it provides them with a solid foundation for their development and allows them to acquire socio-emotional skills that will help them become better individuals in their personal, professional, family, and work lives as adults.

In countries like Mexico, it is a great challenge to create consistent habits that encourage childhood creativity, so that this ability is not lost in other stages, since it is estimated that creative thinking decreases by more than 80% after 15 years of age.

This is due to adolescents entering a dynamic where logical or rational thinking is used, coupled with technological issues that do not contribute to creative awakening.

Specialists point out that among the activities that always motivate creativity in children are drawing, painting, or writing, as every child, regardless of age, naturally picks up a pencil, pen, and colors to project the world they see.

How to motivate creativity in children?

Adults have the responsibility to nurture children's creativity, whether in the family or school environment, by providing tools for children to boost their creative capacity.

What can be done about it?

1. You can create family dynamics where children play and learn at the same time, combining indoor activities like board games with outdoor ones that also provide exercise.
2. Children are naturally curious; take advantage of this to discuss topics that interest them and that you can explain in a simplified way, from why it rains to what dinosaurs were.
3. Read adventure and fantasy stories with them, changing voice tones and gesticulating to motivate their imagination.
4. Draw and do crafts where they have to paint and use different materials.
5. Establish hypothetical situations and ask them how they could solve that case or a problem.

Ideal gifts for their creativity

Drawing, noting ideas, creating stories, painting are fundamental activities that nurture creativity in children. At Yellow Clip we have several notebooks, utensils, and kits with markers and stickers that are the ideal gift for them.

When children draw, paint, and create, they are constantly motivating their creativity, developing their brain and abilities, thereby improving their motor skills, communication, ability to express themselves, becoming more empathetic and sensitive to their environment, and learning to solve problems.

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