Social development activity: make a 'creation station!'

A 'creation station' supports children to develop social skills such as turn taking, cooperation, negotiating, back and forth communication and identification of feelings.

How:

• Place materials and items for your child/children to create with on a tabletop or the floor where everyone can be invited to get creative.

• Encourage children to explore and use materials they choose to develop their creations.

• Invite conversation by naming and noticing similarities and differences between each creation and asking how materials feel - for example, “Wow! I see you have a lot of green items and your brother has a lot of blue items.”

Materials needed:

Things to get creative with, like:

• Crayons, markers

• Loose parts – corks, lids, pebbles, sticks, boxes, q-tips, pom poms, spools, shells

• Scissors, glue

• Playdough

• Paint and brushes

• Paper – newspaper, magazines, construction