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Arouse a child's curiosity and stimulate their creativity with a selection of interesting bags and boxes In order to foster children's creativity, it is crucial that practitioners offer children open-ended experiences and value their individual responses to a stimulus. Here are a few ideas of how to arouse children's curiosity and promote imaginative thinking through the use of bags and boxes.

In order to foster children's creativity, it is crucial that practitioners offer children open-ended experiences and value their individual responses to a stimulus. Here are a few ideas of how to arouse children's curiosity and promote imaginative thinking through the use of bags and boxes.

Character case

Pack a suitcase of items belonging to an imaginary character. Include clothes, hats and shoes, and items such as a camera, glasses and books.

Choose an interesting suitcase as it will be the initial stimulus for developing the children's ideas. The task of engaging and motivating children will begin long before the case is even opened with questions such as, 'Why do you think this case is so battered?', 'Look at the labels attached to it. What do they say?', 'What do you think is inside?'.

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