Be inspired by Redan’s Fun To Learn Magazines to Take Time and Make Memories
Taking the time to play with your child through creating simple crafts, recipes and completing fun activities is incredibly important for their growth and development.
Redan Publishing’s mantra of Take Time Make Memories is dotted throughout their children’s magazines to signpost the activities that support this ethos and to prompt grown-ups to join in.
The benefits of taking time to be creative with children are widely recognised and listed below are 5 key reasons why Redan continues to develop original and fresh ideas for their readers.
1. Self-Expression
With creativity, there is no wrong answer, offering children a chance to express themselves and increase their willingness to explore and experiment. It also fosters mental growth in children by providing opportunities for trying out new ideas.
2. Self-Esteem
Working on a craft or recipe not only provides children with time-out from everyday stresses but when they see what they have created, it provides them with a great sense of achievement, boosting their confidence, mental health and well-being.
3. Fine Motor Skills
Grasping paintbrushes, chalks, whisks, rolling pins, or any tool required for creative activities, helps children develop fine motor muscles.
The Early Years Foundation Stage framework states, “Fine motor control and precision helps with hand-eye co-ordination which is later linked to early literacy. Repeated and varied opportunities to explore and play with small world activities, puzzles, arts and crafts and the practise of using small tools, with feedback and support from adults, allow children to develop proficiency, control and confidence”
Department for Education: https://help-for-early-years-providers.education.gov.uk/physical-development/fine-motor-skills
4. Literacy
Creative tasks positively impact speaking and reading as well as listening and understanding. When children make or bake, they enjoy talking about what they’re doing, whilst learning new vocabulary from their grown-ups, “now it’s your turn to stir up the mixture”, “do you like the texture of the clay?” Following verbal instructions also means they are growing their listening skills.
5. Quality Time
Children love to spend quality time with their family and the activities within Redan’s magazines facilitate opportunities for bonding and creating lifelong memories to cherish. You can talk about what you think, feel and care about whilst you are crafting, baking or cooking together. And as an added bonus, children are away from their screens!
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