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10 Tips to Boost Your Kids’ Creativity at Home
Creativity is an essential part of a child's development, and encouraging it at home can be both fun and rewarding! Here are 10 easy and engaging tips to help spark your kids' imagination and creativity, all while having a great time together. At Code Camp, we have plenty of experience in boosting kids' creativity through hands-on activities and exciting projects!
1. Create a Creative Space
Designate a corner or table where your child can freely express themselves. Stock it with art supplies, books, and any materials that encourage creativity like paper, crayons, markers, and paint. Having a dedicated space helps them feel inspired!
2. Try New Art Techniques
Introduce different art methods, such as watercolour, finger painting, or even crafting with recycled materials. Let your kids experiment and explore what they enjoy most. The more diverse the techniques, the more they’ll expand their creative horizons.
3. Encourage Storytelling
Give your kids a prompt and let them create their own stories. You can make up characters or settings together and let them build a narrative. You could also try story cubes or drawing prompts to kickstart their imagination!
4. Have Fun with DIY Projects
Crafting doesn’t have to be complicated! Try simple DIY projects like making homemade playdough, building paper forts, or decorating T-shirts. These hands-on activities allow kids to explore and create in their own unique way.
5. Play Imaginative Games
Play pretend with your kids by becoming characters or creating make-believe worlds. Whether it’s playing "house," pretending to be superheroes, or acting out animals, imaginative play encourages creativity and helps with problem-solving.
6. Set Up Indoor Treasure Hunts
Hide small objects or clues around the house and create a fun treasure hunt with riddles and challenges. This engages kids in storytelling, problem-solving, and creative thinking.
7. Incorporate Music and Dance
Music is a powerful tool for creativity! Let your kids explore different genres of music and have fun dancing around. Create a mini concert or encourage them to make up their own songs and rhythms.
8. Limit Screen Time
Encourage creativity by limiting screen time and allowing your kids to engage in hands-on, unplugged activities. This helps them focus on activities like drawing, building, or reading, which can improve their creative thinking.
9. Provide Encouraging Feedback
When your kids create something, always celebrate their effort, even if it’s not perfect. Offer praise for their creativity and encourage them to try new things. Positive reinforcement boosts their confidence and inspires them to keep creating.
10. Explore Different Mediums
Let your kids try new materials like clay, fabric, or photography. The more they experiment with different creative outlets, the more their imagination will grow. They might even discover a hidden talent!
Your Ultimate school holidays activity list
1. Get creative with Minions
What is it?
Kids go bananas for Minions (pun intended) and these school holidays they can express their fandom making a Minions movie using stop-motion animation techniques. Over 2 days, kids create their own Minions clay characters and design their own film set. The magic begins when they see their characters come to life by taking multiple images of objects and stitching them together to look like they’re moving! - It’s incredibly fun!
Why go?
If they watch their favourite animated movies on repeat, they’ll love creating Minions clay figurines and developing their own story, taking lots of still frames and stitching them together to create their very first movie!
Ages: 5-7
2. Become a DJ
What is it?
Children will take their first steps into the exciting world of mixing music to create their own DJ set.
Why go?
Kids will love mixing their favourite pop tunes using beat matching and transitions on real DJ decks. Plus, they will design their own DJ brand, develop branded merch, and even perform a DJ set to their friends!
Ages: 8-13
3. Pilot a drone
What is it?
Kids learn to pilot a drone using coding to design a flight path and watch in wonder as the drone takes flight!
Why go?
If your kid shows an interest in drones, they can learn more than just the basics of flying. Kids get a taste of cutting-edge technology and learn about coding, problem-solving, engineering, design, and more. They’ll learn about drone tech and safety, movie making, and discover how drones have a positive social impact when used to fight bushfires, rescue koalas, spot sharks on the coast and loads more!
Ages: 9-13
4. Become a YouTuber
What is it?
While they may not end up with YouTube stardom, we’re sure kids will have a new lens on screen time. They will be equipped with the skills to start producing and directing their own ideas instead of simply watching other people's! Plus, they’ll gain confidence ‘performing’ in front of audiences and on set and importantly, learn about staying safe online.
Why go?
Taking a YouTube fixation and turning it into something incredibly productive where kids will learn planning, storytelling, filming and video editing to become the star in their very own YouTube-style videos.
Ages: 8-13
5. Produce a LEGO movie
What is it?
Turn hours of playing with LEGO characters into an even more creative pursuit, by teaching kids to create their own LEGO Movie.
Why go?
They can use their favourite LEGO characters and sets, come up with a fun storyline and use stop-motion techniques to produce a short animation film. It will transform the way they play at home and offer endless hours of creativity for the rest of the holidays.
Ages: 7-12
6. Code a game
What is it?
Kids can design their own arcade-style video games (like Super Mario Bros), jam-packed with cool characters like zombies and unicorns, and awesome gaming features such as invisibility cloaks and shrinking potions. They’ll learn drag and drop code and logic to connect all the design elements together and bring their games to life!
Why go?
Kids are spending countless hours on Roblox and Minecraft these days. Get them to spark their creative side instead, by producing their own original games, using a combination of creative level design, storytelling and problem-solving to bring their creations to life. It’s so much fun, they won’t realise they are actually learning some very important coding and tech skills for their future.
Ages: 7-12
7. Develop a Website
What is it?
For kids with some proficiency in coding, they’ll create their own website from scratch about an animal, movie, sporting team or their favourite topic.
Why go?
With 1.93 billion websites on the world wide web, developers are in higher demand than ever before. It’s a great head start to gain fundamental web building skills and your kids will have so much fun in the process.