Get creative with Crayola
Creativity is an essential skill to have for your child’s future and is a fun skill to express yourself through. It is vital to develop your child’s creativity skills through engaging activities to help them find creative solutions and new ideas in their future. Kids also love being creative and is a great way to spend lots of hours of fun, where they can explore their imagination and express themselves however they like!
However, it can be hard to think of exciting and new creative activities for your child that they will enjoy. To help you, we have some amazing Crayola sets for your child to develop their creativity skills with. You can also explore the benefits of creativity in this blog to encourage more time spent doing engaging and creative activities! So, what are you waiting for? Get creative with Crayola and delve into their wonderful, exciting sets!
Benefits of creativity
There are multiple benefits of creativity for children. Creativity doesn’t only allow kids to express themselves in their own way, but it also allows them to think creatively and start coming up with creative solutions and new ideas, which they can continue to develop into their future. Plus, they can also see the world from different and unique perspectives and create inventions with originality. There are also so many other benefits that you can explore!
Enhances problem-solving skills
When your child is developing their creativity skills, they are also enhancing their problem-solving skills! They can build solving problems from a creative point, which helps them to come up with innovative solutions they may never have thought about. They can think outside of the box through creativity and identify problems from different perspectives.
Boosts self-esteem and confidence
If your child is more creative, they can often have more confidence and self-esteem. Creativity allows them to express themselves in their own, unique way and can bring a sense of pride in their accomplishments. When your child feels good about themselves, they can feel confident enough to take risks and achieve their dreams/goals.
Develops cognitive skills
Being creative also develops your child’s cognitive skills. If your child engages in more creative activities, they can perform better with tasks and tests based on creativity, problem-solving and divergent thinking. Creativity not only enhances art skills and self-expression, it can make them smarter and adept in cognitive skills!
Aids social skills
Building creativity skills allows your child to boost their social skills. When a conversation takes place, creativity is a key part to make socialising interesting and engaging. Your child will need creativity to help them know what to say next, following what others are talking about and making a connection between the ideas and personalities of others.
Plus, many creative activities can introduce collaborative work to your child. Doing these activities can help your child develop communication and teamwork skills. It is also a great way to enhance their social-emotional development as they express their feelings in a healthy way through the activities, which can translate when socialising with others.
Enhances critical thinking skills
When your child is engaged with more creative activities, they can enhance their critical thinking skills. This is because they have to think and evaluate their options and select their choices. This leads them to use their critical thinking part of their brain and also develops their decision-making skills.
Your child can begin to see problems from different perspectives and start thinking flexibly. Due to creativity, your child can begin to think critically about everything in life, especially when they are faced with new information. They can feel confident to ask questions to learn more and decide what they think about the information. This can help them avoid dangerous situations and being scammed in the future, as well as helping to solve problems in their future career!
Helps understand the world
If your child is creative, they tend to want to explore the world around them and it builds their curiosity, helping them to understand the world. When your child is being creative, they have to use their imagination to enable them to make sense of things. Doing this aids them to see the world in a new and different perspective. Plus, your child can also learn about other people and cultures through creativity.
Aids with future careers
Creativity and innovation are fundamental skills to have in many various jobs and career sectors. Having creativity helps with new ideas so your child can be more likely to succeed in their future career. They are likely to come up with an exciting and creative business idea that will lead them and the company to success. Your child will be able to find solutions quickly through their creativity and see solutions differently, which helps to set them apart from their competition.
Benefits mental health and wellbeing
Participating in creative activities benefits your child’s mental health and wellbeing. This is because being creative is super-fun for your child. When they are having fun with creativity, they can often feel content and less stressed. Creative activities can boost their mood and alleviate any stress they may have. If your child often gets anxious, being creative can help reduce their anxiety and calms them down as it is a relaxing activity.
Creativity also helps your child to express their emotions through art or any creative form. This is ideal if your child tends to struggle with communicating their feelings or expressing experiencing a difficult time.
Crayola sets to encourage creativity
Now you know some of the key benefits of creativity for your child, encourage them to unleash their creative skills through our amazing range of Crayola sets! These sets all offer your child a unique creative activity with multiple skills they can expand. Explore these fantastic, exciting Crayola sets and let your child go wild with their creativity.
Crayola Light Up Tracing Pad
Build your child’s confidence to create amazing art with the Crayola Light Up Tracing Pad. They can place any of the ten tracing sheets on the light up pad, then use a blank sheet and graphite pencil to trace the image. Once they have the outline traced, your child can use their creativity to add their own unique touches to the drawing.
This amazing Crayola set comes with 12 short coloured pencils to make colouring and embellishing easier and smooth. Your child can build their creative flair through adding their own details with the colouring pencils. They can also build their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills with this engaging set. Your child can critically think about their next steps with their creative master-piece to put their own twist on it and they are encouraged to for-see any problems that may occur while tracing and finishing the piece.
Your child can express themselves through their finishing touches too. They only have to trace the outline, the rest is up to them! This set is perfect for budding artists that struggle with drawing. It can help them build the confidence and creative flair needed to draw free-handed!
Perfect for children aged 6 years and up for a creative activity that can go anywhere with them. They can get creative on a long journey or they can take it outdoors as the Crayola light up tracing pad is transportable and compact.
Crayola Paint Create Easel
Ideal for little creative painters aged 4 years plus, the Crayola Paint Create Easel Case encourages your child to unleash their creativity. They can colour, paint and stamp with this amazing travel set! Your child can take this set anywhere they like from the house to long journeys and even the park, as it comes with a sturdy storage case for easy transport. The set also includes safe, non-toxic supplies and design that makes it child-friendly!
This engaging and super-creative set allows your child to express themselves however they like, creating various paint art using their imagination. They can also use this creative activity to boost their mood and reduce any stress and anxiety at any time, thanks to the easy transportable case!
This activity is also perfect to boost your child’s social skills as they can create perfect paint art with their friends or other children. They can work on a painting together to develop communication skills or independently create their own painting while socialising and conversing with each other.
Crayola Paint-station Set
Boost your child’s creativity and let them paint their imagination using the mess-free Crayola Paint-station Set. Your little one can bring any artwork to life through these gravity-defying paint pods!
This set has 5 vibrant colours that children aged 3 plus can build their hand-eye coordination with. They can express themselves and their emotions through making amazing masterpieces they will cherish forever. Your child can also understand the world through their creative painting activity. They can explore the world and their surroundings, using this as their inspiration, and see the world in different perspectives.
Your little one can also gain confidence with painting and being creative as the paintbrushes can be held at an angle without any spills and the paint is washable. This means they can go crazy with their creativity and imagination and feel confident knowing mistakes are reduced and mess isn’t created! This set is truly mess-free and parent friendly and the pots can be stacked once used to store easier!
Paint Station Table Top Easel
The Paint Station Table Top Easel from Crayola defies gravity! Your child can make masterpieces without the mess using the no spill paint. All they have to do is clip their paints onto the table top easel for an all-in-one artist station. This station flips so your child can decide to paint portrait or landscape easily, enhancing their decision-making skills and problem-solving skills. Your child can determine how they want to paint through critical thinking and think of the correct decision for them.
This Crayola set is great for children aged 3 years and up, that can be taken anywhere with them as it’s easily transportable. They can head outdoors on a nice day, for inspiration and to explore the world around them. They can develop their curiosity and understanding of the world through this and learn about new things they may never have seen! Plus, they can boost their mood through having fun creative time and reduce stress, which can be further enhanced by soaking in the wonders of the outdoors.
Crayola Sprinkle Art Shaker
Children just love sprinkles and now, they are easier than ever to use for fun, creative artwork! The Crayola Sprinkle Art Shaker is a portable art set that allows your child to decorate line art, or a blank piece of paper, without sprinkles flying everywhere. This creates less-mess for indoor use, making this a great art set that parents love too!
Your child can use their imagination and creativity to create a design using the included glue, or add glue to line art for some help with inspiration. They can put the glue wherever they would like the sprinkles to stick to bring their unique designs to life! Once this is done, they only have to close it up, shake and watch their designs appear!
Your child can express themselves through glittery fun and even create designs with friends and family, boosting their social skills and communication skills! They can build confidence with their creativity, taking risks with their designs they usually wouldn’t, as this set makes it easier to create perfect sprinkle art.
This is a truly unique creative toy for children aged 5 and up and can make a perfect gift for holidays and birthdays for any sprinkle-lover!
Crayola Silly Scents Creative Compounds Activity Pack
The Crayola Silly Scents Sand Activity Pack is an amazing, new moulding material which engages all the senses! Your child can mould, sculpt and play, exploring different textures and creating unique, creative art. They can think critically about the textures and what they could do with it to create their masterpiece. They can also see the different wonderful bright and bold colours and even smell the delightful fruit scents!
Your child can truly explore and develop their senses through this engaging, sensory-building, creative set. They can feel soft, tactile, scrunchy yet fluffy sand and see how it responds to manipulation to sculpt it into all kinds of shapes! This helps to develop their critical-thinking skills through creativity as they can ask questions about the senses they are exploring, and decide on how is best to create their vision.
They can also develop their problem-solving skills through this and explore new senses, helping to understand scents, textures and colours they may come across in the world that surrounds them. They can explore the world through this different aspect too and even head outdoors to inspire their creation!
Encourage your child to get creative with Crayola to not only develop their creativity, but other vital skills they need too! They can do so much through creative activities and these amazing Crayola sets are perfect for creative fun that truly helps them succeed, now and in their future! From enhancing critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to boosting their confidence and mental health, creativity has no limits and is essential to keep on working at.
Try out these engaging, exciting and super-creative sets that your child will adore and explore our whole Crayola range to get creative with!
