Entre los dos y los tres años, puede notar el desarrollo de las destrezas del niño cuando cambia de la imitación a la imaginación. A continuación, encontrará algunas maneras simples de estimular este cambio y los beneficios importantes que conlleva en la habilidad del niño para pensar de forma creativa más tarde en la vida.
The scaled-down world of a playset lets children use their imaginations to create a special place where they are in control. Your child feels empowered, both as the "director" guiding characters and as an "actor" pretending to be a character. When you join in your child's make-believe, take cues from your "little director" about who to be and what to do. If you notice a lull in the action, feel free to tickle your child's memory—"remember when"—about familiar events, trips or stories. Your child may want to relive them, or imaginatively alter them, in pretend play.
Talking with your two-year-old during make-believe play gives you a chance to casually build the language and conceptual skills your child needs to leap from imitating to imagining. You might want to demonstrate concepts like in and out, over and under, open and closed, over and through. Say what you are doing as you do it. Give your child the words: "The car is going down the ramp." Seeing, hearing and putting words into action increases your child's understanding and provides experiences from which your child can draw. Gradually, your child moves from imitating "what's been seen" to creating imaginative stories about "what could be."
Read to your child often. Books give children good practice in imagining action. Show a video. Narrate what you and your child observe on your daily trips together. At home, you might remind your child of the activities you've done together: mailed a letter; shopped for groceries; picked up the dog at the vet; watched a butterfly. Hearling familiar and imaginative stories helps children create their own.
Ejemplos de juguetes que estimulan la imaginación de los niños de dos y tres años:
The scaled-down world of a playset lets children use their imaginations to create a special place where they are in control. Your child feels empowered, both as the "director" guiding characters and as an "actor" pretending to be a character. When you join in your child's make-believe, take cues from your "little director" about who to be and what to do. If you notice a lull in the action, feel free to tickle your child's memory—"remember when"—about familiar events, trips or stories. Your child may want to relive them, or imaginatively alter them, in pretend play.
Talking with your two-year-old during make-believe play gives you a chance to casually build the language and conceptual skills your child needs to leap from imitating to imagining. You might want to demonstrate concepts like in and out, over and under, open and closed, over and through. Say what you are doing as you do it. Give your child the words: "The car is going down the ramp." Seeing, hearing and putting words into action increases your child's understanding and provides experiences from which your child can draw. Gradually, your child moves from imitating "what's been seen" to creating imaginative stories about "what could be."
Read to your child often. Books give children good practice in imagining action. Show a video. Narrate what you and your child observe on your daily trips together. At home, you might remind your child of the activities you've done together: mailed a letter; shopped for groceries; picked up the dog at the vet; watched a butterfly. Hearling familiar and imaginative stories helps children create their own.
