Kids Play [antikvár]

This Book . . . I wrote Kids Play out of love for children and their creative energy. Painting with children has helped me enter the depth of my creative passion, and I want to give back to them the treasures I uncovered. This book reveals the essence of creativity as play and self-expression. It also shows the dramatically important role parents and teachers can play as guides and catalysts and how they can help remove obstacles to jump-start their children's creative power. Kids Play presents the Point Zero method for children's creativity, which is designed to introduce children to the wonderful activity oi painting as a process of exploration. This unique method safeguards children's natural creativity and aims to fulfill its potential. In this book parents and teachers will also find ways to reestablish a direct connection between children and their creative power when it is lost and restore their enthusiasm to create. When stimulated creativity reaches every aspect of children's lives, developing their inner potential and self-confidence while they grow, enhanced self-esteem and self-reliance are direct by-products. Through this method children learn to inhabit their feelings, to authentically manifest who they are, and to explore their world. The basic principles developed in this book are: