There are many, many reasons why getting your children’s creative juices flowing is beneficial. Here are just a few that we like to remember from time to time:

• Using their hands enhances their cognitive development.
   

• Little neurons inside children’s brain fire up when they’re thinking creatively and this has a beneficial impact on their ability to problem solve.
   

• The sense of achievement is tangible, literally, everyone can see what they’ve made.
   

• Children are genuinely more employable in later life if they can think laterally, communicate clearly and work as part of a team. Creativity is the number one skill that business leaders say they need for their organisations to succeed.
   

• Art & sewing develops fine and gross motor skills and makes their fingers more adept. This, in turn, makes them better at other useful things like handwriting in school.
   

• As parents the best way to set children up for life is to have a balance of variety and stimulus in their lives. Creative, academic & physical activities all in equal measure.

at Magpie Makes we encourage children to:

• experiment with materials

• observe

• express themselves creatively

• learn from their mistakes

• persevere

• understand why and how things are made

• appreciate colour, texture, light & shade

• have confidence in their ideas

• develop life skills such as sewing

• collaborate

• tidy up!

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