Session 10 Assignment Questions
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Plan and provide a creative experience for a child. If you are not currently working in a child care setting, plan an
experience for your child, a niece or nephew, or the child of a friend.
Use the worksheet that follows to guide you through the process of:
• Identifying the child’s interests and development
• Planning a creative experience for the child
• Evaluating the experience you planned
Part I: Identifying the child’s interests and development
The Child
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Select one child. The child is ______ year(s) old.
Observe this child to determine the stage of creative development and the child’s creative interests. This is easiest
to see in the way the child uses materials when drawing, painting, modelling, or building with blocks. Select an
experience in which the child chooses the materials and what to do with the materials.
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What experience(s) I observed:
I was with a 5-year-old playing outside in a garden area. He seemed super curious about
nature picking up leaves, rocks, sticks, and even bugs. He had a little magnifying glass and
kept looking really close at the patterns on the leaves and the little insects crawling around.
He also started drawing what he saw using crayons.
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He used a stick to dig into the soil and lined up small rocks like he was making a tiny road.
He used the magnifying glass to look at everything up close and kept asking me questions
about what he was seeing. Then he grabbed crayons and started drawing the leaves and
shapes he found on paper. He said one of the leaves “looked like a dragon wing.”
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Based on my observations, the child’s stage of creative development seems to be (put a check in the blank)
____ Basic Exploration ____ Non-representative ____ Representative
Part II: Planning a creative experience for the child
Briefly outline an open-ended, creative experience that will provide another opportunity for the child’s
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creative development.
I planned a "Free art table" activity.
I set up a table placed with a variety of materials like, paper, crayons, markers, scissors, glue,
stickers, buttons, string, and different kinds of paper. I told the child, you can use anything
from the provided material over here to make whatever you want. No instructions or
suggestions were given to the child—he could draw, build or invent something completely
from his imagination. The whole focus was on self-expression and exploration.
List the materials you will provide.
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1. construction paper 2. blank white paper 3.crayons 4.markers 5. glow stick 6. safety
scissors 7. yarn 8. stickers 9. bottle caps 10. buttons
How is this experience appropriate to the child’s stage of creative development?
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Since the child is in representative stage he is going to use art to represent real or imagined
things. This open ended activity supports that by allowing him to decide, what to create and
how to do it. He can turn his ideas into something visual by utilizing the materials in his own
way. It encourages imagination, choice-making and storytelling which all are important parts
of creative development at this stage.
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Asking creative, rather than just factual questions is an important step in encouraging children’s creativity.
What creative question might you ask to promote creativity? Write at least one question that would encourage
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the child to give a creative response.
I asked him, “If this leaf could talk, what story would it tell?”
He thought for a second and said, “It got blown away from its tree and went on an
adventure.”
It made him smile and come up with a whole little tale.
Creative questions like this make kids think beyond just what they see.
It feels more like playing than learning, but it helps a lot.
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Part III: Evaluating the experience you planned
Carry out this open-ended experience with the child. Afterward, record the following information:
Briefly describe how the child explored the activity planned.
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He was super focused during the nature walk. He collected tiny flowers and even found a
feather. When we sat down, he placed things on paper and glued them carefully. He even
drew a little ant family and said the feather was their bed. He was talking the whole time
about his “forest city” and really got into it.
Developmentally, what skills did the child practice during the creative experience?
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Fine motor skills from gluing and drawing
Language and storytelling while talking about his artwork
Observation skills
Imagination and creative thinking
Patience and focus (he really took his time)
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Was the activity appropriate for the age and developmental level of the child? If not, why?
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Yes, totally. It let him explore, be active, and make something in his own way. He stayed
interested from beginning to end.
Why is it important to support children’s creative development?
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It helps kids express what’s in their minds without needing to use just words. It also builds
confidence because there’s no “wrong answer.” Letting kids create freely helps their thinking
and emotional growth too. It’s a way of letting them be themselves.
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What did you learn about yourself through this activity
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I actually felt really calm doing this with him. I realized how fun it is just to watch a child’s
mind work when you don’t control everything. It reminded me that creativity doesn’t need to
be perfect it just needs space.
