Every child has a creative spark, and as parents, we should do everything we can to nurture it. Whether your kid loves writing their own stories, drawing, painting or even photography, the more you encourage their creative tendencies now, the more confidence your child will have, the more inclined they'll be to try new things and the better they'll be at expressing and coping … [Read more...]
Getting Your Kids To Engage With Creative Writing
Creative writing is such an amazing educational tool for children, but many people struggle to get their kids engaged with it. Creative writing is so beneficial because it improves reading and writing skills but it can also be used to benefit other areas of education. For example, why not make history more exciting by encouraging your kids to write stories about different … [Read more...]
Sew, You Want To Make Cool Clothes For Your Kids?
When you reach a certain age, hand-sewn clothes become a way to display your style and guarantee your clothes are 100% unique. When you’re a kid, though, home-sewn clothes are anything but cool. In fact, children of parents who make their clothes at home for them often feel outright embarrassed by those wild and wonderful creations. The trouble is that, as any parent can … [Read more...]
A Child’s Creativity and Homemade Playdough
Mistakes are Marvelous: At Galileo we embrace mistakes as we teach campers to create without the fear of making them. We earnestly believe that mistake-making leads to magical learning opportunities and children shouldn’t spend their time in fear of making them. (Grown-ups either for that matter). Craft your story around how you and your child approached a project or obstacle … [Read more...]