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CDA-Creativity was created for a Child Development Associate students workshop on creativity. For more information please contact: Sharon Kruger at skruger@esc5.net.

This is a document that you can send out to parents to explain the importance of creative thinking. Many parents are aware of the need to learn letters and numbers. Once they understand the importance of creative thinking, they are supportive in your creative experience that you offer children.

This document addresses the skills that teachers want to nurture in their students that can be achieved by having creative experiences for their children.

CREATIVE ART IDEAS

This document is great advice to early childhood educators and parents on the importance of including an art center and creative art experiences every day with young children.

This document was scanned backwards. So, the last page of this is really the first page. This has advice for how to do art with toddlers. In addition, it has great inexpensive ideas on how to attractively and easily display toddler art.

This is a note that you can send home to parents to explain the importance of creative art experiences in your classroom.

This has art activity suggestions and developmentally appropriate expectations for art center material for children ages birth to 5 years old.

This is advice from the OOEY GOOEY LADY on who to call to get free paper for your young artists.

This is a poem about the sparkle of imagination in children. It occurs when a child sees a sparkle from a piece of broken glass and calls it a star.

This has suggestions to teachers on how to make art a successful experience in your classroom.

This has directions on how a teacher (or a older preschool child with good fine motor skills) can make a small gift box.

This is a recipe for cooked playdough.

This document was scanned backwards. So the last page of the document is really the first page. This gives suggestions to early childhood educators on how to create successful art experiences.

CREATIVE MUSIC IDEAS

Please ignore page one of this. The coffee can drum and yogurt container shaker instructions are on page 2 of this.

CREATIVE DRAMATIC PLAY IDEAS This is full of wonderful ways to make your pretend and play center meaningful and interesting. The ideas range from vetrenarian to post office to banker to gas station.

This has more creative dramatic play ideas to put together on a tight budget. This has ideas for making tutus, bridal veils, beds for babies and much more.

GROSS MOTOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

This documents was scanned backwards. Therefore the last page is the first page. This has activities on using milk cartons stuffed with paper as a ball. There are cooperative games as well as competitive games. The best part of this list of activities is that everyone can participate at once. There is no waiting for turns. The best gross motor activities for young children are ones that have no waiting for turns invovled.

PAMPHLETS WITH ART, DRAMATIC PLAY, MUSIC AND SCIENCE IDEAS This was scanned in backwards. The first page of this packet is page 12. There are ideas on how to make musical instruments, creative science activities for toddlers and preschoolers, recipe for OOHBLECK and much more

.This was scanned backwards. The first page of the documnent is the last page. This document was created by the OOEY GOOEY lady. She has a wealth of information on activities that teach science or art and are very creative, educational and FUNNNN.