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Pretend play and reading are among the things that enrich your child’s imagination. Boosting their imagination helps them set a goal to reach for their ambitions.
Imagination is one tool that is beneficial for everyone no matter what age. When we were still youngsters, we started dreaming about our ambitions by imagining us in the shoes of the professionals we wanted to be.
Jessica the Dreamer by Joanne Radke is a children’s book that teaches kids to dream big and know they can become whatever they want to be with God’s help. The book follows Jessica, an imaginative kid who has always dreamed of ice cream rivers and banana boats. She also dreams of what she wants to be when she grows up. Jessica the Dreamer gives its young readers the idea of being free in the world of imagination and forming an ambition of their own.
Children tend to have strong imagination, especially of things they want to experience in the future. Imagination helps them boost creativity, reasoning, and spatial skills. With this, parents can help mold their child to become the person they want to become in the future.
Here are some tips to help enrich your child’s imagination:
Bond with the Child Through Reading
Telling bed-time stories help the parent and the child form a strong bond between them. It also helps the kid learn vocabulary, language, art appreciation, and creativity through the tales and colorful illustrations. The words and colors will help enrich your child’s imagination right before they sleep, allowing them to visualize their own colorful world in their dreams.
Pretend Play
Children hone their imagination through pretend play. It makes them think that they are in a different world or situations that allow them to see and experience things so different from a normal day. Pretend plays also help the kids imagine themselves as a hero or the professional they want to be when they grow up. As a parent, you can always join your kids in the pretend play to enrich your child’s imagination.
Give Them Engaging Toys and Games
Toys help the kids strengthen their imagination. Toys are made to create an engagement with kids to enable them to create a world that will help enrich your child’s imagination. Some toys help them with their reasoning and logical skills. Some provide a foundation for art, music, and language. As a parent, you might want to choose the toys and games that will hone your child’s skills and imagination as they enjoy the time with their toys and their playmates.
Create Art
Enrich your child’s imagination through art. Most kids love immortalizing their imagination by drawing on surfaces. A box of crayons and some pieces of white paper will help them tap into their artsy self. With this, they can express what they feel through colors and objects they draw on paper.
Let Them Explore
There’s so much room outside the door. To enrich your child’s imagination, you should also let them experience the fun that is just outside the window. The outside world allows them to connect with other kids, form bonds, and aim for bigger dreams to achieve.
Talk to Them
Children with ambitions become more imaginative when you talk to them. When playing, you can always ask your kid who they are or what they are doing. They are mostly an open book and would share what they’re doing to help put you into their imaginary world. This imaginary world is a safe place for them to find a path of ambition that would lead them in the future.
Enrich your child’s imagination by being with them as they create a vision of the person they want to be. Let them pave a path on their own at an early age. As a parent, you are part of the support system that inspires and encourages them to take on challenges that will help them grow to become the learned professional they’ve always imagined.
You can help your child strengthen their imagination by inspiring them with good bedtime stories as a start. Jessica the Dreamer by Joanne Radke is an example of a book that will encourage your child to imagine their future. You can buy the book on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. You may also visit the author’s website to learn more about her and her other works.
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