Sunday, August 16, 2009

Creative Toys and their Advantages

By Oliver Jackson Carter

To teach creativity is thought not to be possible, but there are particular types of toys that are designed to help open the creative gates inside young children's minds, providing them with the necessary tools to develop their own creative personality.

The main benefit of creative toys is that they allow children to create or build something that is completely their own, and when a child achieves this, the exhilaration and joy they experience is immeasurable, as is the long term benefit that these activities will have on their life-long creativity.

Some other toys allow children to be creative, such as figurines that allow the child to envision a scenario for the depicted character, but specific creative toys allow them to create something that did not exist before and the thrill of such achievement can aid the blossoming of further creativity later on in life.

Children's creative toys are often simply scaled-down, safer versions of equipment or supplies that adults use, like a set of toys that have been made by the Discovery Channel, the Ultimate Pottery Wheel and the Sew Fun Sewing Machine.

These toys are just smaller, more child-friendly versions of the adult sewing machines and pottery wheels. These are outlets of creativity for adults, but they are too hazardous for children to use, and so these kinds of appliances have simply been scaled down and had the sharp edges and fast moving parts replaced with safer alternatives. These toys provide children with outlets for creativity from an early age.

There are toys that allow children to be creative, but are nowhere near as complex as the pottery wheel and sewing machine. These are toys such a sets of felt pens, paints or building blocks. Although these toys are catalysts for creativity, like the pottery wheel and sewing machine they only enlighten children to the visual arts. There are other creative toys that are designed to bring out different areas of creativity in young children.

Digital creative toys have become hugely popular in the last 10 years or so. These are the kinds of toys that allow children to interact with virtual characters or pets. These toys can be a great asset to the minds of small children while they're developing a sense of responsibility, but allow them to do it in a consequence free way.

Toys that invoke creativity in the minds of young children are immeasurably more beneficial than toys that are purely used for entertainment. The benefits do not end in childhood either, allowing a child to use creative toys as their mind develops will set them up with the necessary tools to have a creative mind for life.

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