Clouds in the form of fancy animals, stones on the beach in the form of a heart, original gifts for a birthday and an unusual suit for a masquerade. All this would be inaccessible to us if not imagination. This way of thinking in many respects defines how there will be our life. Without imagination the mankind would not receive so huge range of various electronic devices helping with life, there would be no Nobel Prizes, and most of businessmen could not open the business. However from the moment of the birth, we are given only a poor stock of this unique property and in adulthood not all can brag of it. But how to learn to dream and make life is brighter? We will also be engaged in search of the answer to this question.
How to develop imagination at the child?
Independent way of thinking allows to solve a huge number of vital tasks. And the before people finds a common language with own imagination, the it will be easier for it to overcome the difficulties. Besides, with development of imagination also creative abilities of the person develop. For this reason ordinary children at advanced age become musicians, architects, artists or actors. The child with the developed imagination is more active than others learns to think independently. Development of imagination of children allows them to become open, sociable and also correctly psychologically and physiologically to develop.
If you are interested in that your child had all these advantages, then do not give to rudiments of eccentricity and to disappear. For their maintenance there is a set of games on development of imagination:
- Long time a game and imagination are constant satellites of development of the child. Give them vent by means of paints, plasticine, albums and pencils. The more the kid creates own hands, the his creative abilities will develop better. But it is better to help him words. Suggest the child to draw a nonexistent animal, to paste a butterfly on the drawing, to make applique of a wonderful tree, etc. Walking on the wood you can collect leaflets, sticks, cones and other natural material together with the child. Ask the child who can turn out from these gifts of the nature. He will at once respond to such game, and together you will be able to create the whole history.
- One more great way to teach the child to dream – puppet theater. Kids very much love performances. But it is even better if they are not only an audience, but also participants of action and also his directors. Give to the kid the chance to allocate heroes with those qualities which he will wish and to invent them a story and destiny. It not only contributes to the development of imagination, but also will help the kid to lose in a performance real true-life stories and even own fears. For example, if the kid is frightened by "a monster under a bed", let he will defeat him and by that he will get rid of own fear the performance. Your main task to show to the child that you believe in existence of his fictional heroes.
- Long ago it is proved that the most effective, among the games developing imagination the game "question-answer" is. Stimulate imagination of the child, asking it the most unexpected questions: what would be if you lived on the moon what you would make if you had a magic wand what animals we can meet in the forest, etc. Besides that you will give vent, imaginations of the child, by means of such game you will easily cover any distance, for example from the house to a garden and will interestingly spend time in any turn.
Remember that since the birth in the child the huge creative potential which needs to be developed is put. The main thing here – your desire to make the child the successful and self-assured person.
Development of imagination and imagination in adults
If you suffer from modesty of your imagination, be not upset. Exercises on development of imagination exist not only for children. Besides knacks and creative potential, there are also acquired. Therefore take into consideration several councils how to develop imagination:
- Read as much as possible, you watch movies and you go to performances. Analyze behavior of heroes, try to put yourself on their place and to argue, kind of you behaved in their situation.
- Be attentive and observant. Try to notice each trifle of reality, whether it be unusual combinations of flowers on an advertizing banner or flute sounds at the musician standing in transition. Listen to various smells and develop sense of smell.
- Write fairy tales and tales. It is possible to think out to them illustrations. Try to give to real objects unreal characteristic of color, a form, volume, etc.
- Change the leading hand. As is well-known each hand is responsible for one of brain hemispheres. Try to write or draw other hand. It perfectly makes active your brain, and you will see the world in other paints.
- Think up to yourself the tasks meaning work with imagination. For example, try to present what will be if the person is not able to sleep, feel pains, will lose sense of smell. Or what would be if again dinosaurs, animal or some plants recovered. An essence of such game to learn to represent what is not fated to come true. It perfectly will help to develop your imagination.
If you complain to people around of lack of a creative vein, remember that development of imagination is already creative process. Learn to think extraordinary. Think out the properties not characteristic of objects and phenomena of the world around. And you will be able to find original and unusual ways of an exit from any life situation soon.
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