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First-hand experiences are essential to a child's learning and creative development. Julian Grenier explains why 'Creativity is fundamental to successful learning' is the bold claim of the QCA's 'Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage'. This means that practitioners need to encourage children to develop and communicate their own ideas. Children's desire to communicate these ideas can then motivate them to learn new ways of doing things.

'Creativity is fundamental to successful learning' is the bold claim of the QCA's 'Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage'. This means that practitioners need to encourage children to develop and communicate their own ideas. Children's desire to communicate these ideas can then motivate them to learn new ways of doing things.

I was recently outside with a child who was transfixed by the tiny patterns of snowflakes dropping on to a climbing frame. She was then highly motivated to be taught how to select and use the smallest brush size on a computer drawing programme, so she could represent the patterns.

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