about homeschoolingPushing a child into thinking and creating for themselves is not really a difficult task. Most children have a healthy natural curiosity which can be easily channeled into creative activities. Here are some suggestions that you can try with your homeschool student to enhance creativity.

Encourage the Interactive Reading of Stories

In passive reading the child merely listens to the homeschooling parent and is entertained. In interactive reading, the homeschool student gets to play a part of the story coming to life. With small children it can be merely making sounds which can be incorporated into the story, such as the barking of a puppy, the creaking open of a gate, the loud scream of surprise of the main character. The more animated the sounds, the better to foster creativity. As the children grow older have them actually enact what the main character is doing. Perhaps even a play can be produced with family and friends engaged in the production.

Give your homeschool student actual class time in the homeschool schedule to come up with a creative project. It could be anything that they can make around the classroom or at home: a new way to store books in the class, a better way to water the lawn, the easiest way to display reference books, a working model for a robotic arm, it could be just about anything. Let the children come up with a productive project that they would like to work on. If the idea is acceptable, they get to work on this project and figure out its schedule on their own. It is amazing how creative they will be when they get rolling.

Celebrating Birthdays and Holidays

Any sort of celebration involves a fair deal of creativity. The greeting cards can be handmade, the invitations for guests can be designed, the venue decorations made, the entertainment planned, and a whole lot more involved with the event requires a fair deal of creativity. By involving your homeschool students in celebrations like these you can help them to express themselves creatively in a number of areas.