Everyday learning about imagination for young children: New book for parents and carers

Everyday learning about imagination for young children: New book for parents and carers

'Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create' (Albert Einstein).

How do you encourage a lively imagination and creative play in young children?

Early Childhood Australia’s latest book, Everyday learning about imagination, offers terrific ideas for parents and carers to stimulate the imagination of young children as they develop from babies through to preschoolers.

Using inexpensive or easily-sourced items, author Lyn Bower outlines how carers can create an environment where youngsters can be encouraged to explore, experience and engage with their surroundings.

Imagination can only develop when young children are given the chance to explore — even if they make mistakes.
Children need adults around them who will encourage and support new ways of approaching problems and problem-solving — adults who will accept original ideas and allow children to try out these ideas, even when knowing that they might fail.

From classical music to painting or making a treasure box, these activity ideas will enhance the development of young children to their full potential and everyone will have fun along the way!

More information on the Everyday Learning Series, including sample chapters, is available at www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/everyday_learning_series/everyday_learning_series.html

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