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Unstructured Materials as a Function of Encouraging Creativity of Young Children

Changes that are happening in the world have an impact on the upbringing of young children. These changes are reflected in terms such as lack of time, space and opportunity for children to play. The materials offered to children, tend to encourage the partial development - specifically affect only one segment of child’s development. This study assumes that children are curious, they want to learn about the world and explore the things that surround them. In addition to research, offered toys and materials play an important role in development of senses and creativity. Material that ensures more freedom, gives greater opportunities. In order to encourage this type of development, it is necessary to meet two requirements of the material offered to children: it should be unstructured and of high quality - the material should be of high quality and resonate with the child, encouraging the activity. One of the materials that meets these criteria is wood: warm, organic, and the child can experience it with different senses - holistically. Therefore, children are offered logs of trees that are various sizes and various textures, and observed in which way they use it in their game. This type of material application encourages the development of flexibility and creativity, while encouraging the experience of diversity of the material. This diversity can be encouraged with other types of natural materials. Wood was offered because it allows great mobility and the ability of combinations, and it offers the opportunity to explore different types of movement. Wood gives the child an opportunity to rework the experience of direct and indirect reality, and creates a new reality through imagination and transformation. This encourages the basic ability for creativity of young children.

children of the early years; creativity; development; natural materials; unstructured materials

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