1st Edition

Discover Creativity with 2-5 Year Olds Promoting Creative Learning and Development Through Best Practice

By Louise Day Copyright 2023
228 Pages 231 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 231 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 231 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Discover Creativity with 2–5 Year Olds explores young children’s creative development and shares important insight as to why and how practitioners can encourage their natural curiosity. It will help early years practitioners and professionals to rediscover the joy of working creatively with young children and how to support them in developing their ideas, thoughts and feelings through creative... Read more

Contents

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART 1

  1. Looking deeper at creativity
  2. What it means to be a creative toddler
  3. What it means to be a creative pre-schooler
  4. Pioneering Influences
  5. Forming respectful relationships
  6. Developing an environment for creativity
  7. Resourcing for creativity
  8. Exploring outdoors
  9. PART 2

  10. Let them play: Provocations
  11. Discover Cooking with young children
  12. Discover Communication and Language
  13. Discover Physical
  14. Discover Outdoors

References

Index

Biography

Louise Day is an early years graduate, manager of Wally’s Day Nursery, UK, and Author of Discover Creativity with Babies.