For childcare workers to:
- Improve and build upon existing skills
- Build confidence
- Focus on having direct experience of the creative process through workshop sessions with artists
- Find ways to expand and progress children's ideas
- Stretch children’s imaginations, enabling them improvise and 'go with the flow'
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It is important for children to see adults engaged in creative work – it implies that creativity is an essential human quality. The project aims to stimulate children's curiosity and awareness of different ways of exploring the world around them.
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Benefits for children:
- Involvement in every aspect of the creative process
- Focus on experimentation and exploration instead of 'how it ought to be done' or 'doing it properly'
- An alternative style of communication - being heard through their own ideas and knowledge, giving a new sense of identity
- A greater capacity for creativity - stretching their imaginations and finding out for themselves
- Increased levels of concentration
- New skills
- A sense of achievement and pride
- Opportunity to work with artists in arts activities not often available in rural communities
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New resources -
materials, instruments, ideas, stories and songs
Above all it should be fun!
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Benefits for parents:
- A better understanding of the value of creative opportunities
- Increased personal confidence through demystifying 'art'
- Higher expectations of what their children are able to achieve
- Pride in their children's achievements
- Support in giving their children a positive start in life
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