Man creates new ideas, inventes and creates works of art, because he has imagination. If people stop fantasizing, all the discoveries will disappear and progress will stop. And children can not play and will not hear fairy tales. Therefore, the development of the imagination is important for an interesting and productive life of people.
It is not difficult to develop imagination and creativity, all exercises for developing imagination give pleasure to young children, teenagers, and even their parents. And adults need to take into account the features of the development of the imagination and its psychology. They are such that creative activity is always connected with real experience and accumulated knowledge. And fantasy affects human emotions. Therefore, the richer the personal experience and erudition, the richer the creative activity of man. And if he dreams of something pleasant and tempting, then he is inspired by his fantasies, but imagining something terrible can get real fears. Therefore, it is always necessary to create suitable conditions for classes to develop imagination. It's not difficult - the main thing is to make them interesting and fun. After all, this is a game, during which children perform exercises and do not notice that they are engaged in a serious matter - the development of the imagination.
3 ways to develop the imagination, which are always available:
- Read the child good literature and discuss the plot with him. At first, fairy tales, at school age - adventure fantastic novels by Jules Verne, Herbert Wells, Conan Doyle, Alexander Belyaev. And from 15-16 years - the popular scientific works of the Strugatsky brothers, Robert Shackley, Lemma, Efremova.
- Create problem situations. The most common example is survival on an uninhabited island. The cultivation of a crocodile in a home bath is also suitable. Or palm trees in a pot.
- To invent stories. Since different tasks for children of different ages are suitable for developing imagination, one can choose the way of writing stories that they like most:
- "And then what?" - the fairy tale is over, and the child wants to listen further. It remains only to think and compose with him, what was then?
- Fairy tales mixed up - Little Red Riding Hood is not greeted by a wolf, but Kolobok, grandfather with a grandmother grows a beanstalk instead of a turnip, and a Cat in boots gets into a fairy tale instead of a Boy with a finger, etc.
- Tales from pictures - for this purpose it is necessary to prepare specially cards with the pasted images cut out from newspapers and magazines. Accidentally choosing cards one by one, the players compose stories and fables, linking disparate pictures into a single plot.
- Three subjects - this game is a very hike to the previous one, only instead of pictures any objects are used and the fairy tale is composed already about them.
The latter method will be easier for children if we teach them techniques that are useful for developing imagination:
Decrease - increase
This technique is used in many fairy tales - Thumbelina and Gulliver, gnomes and giants. And now, let the child himself change the size of any objects with a magic wand. Playing, you need to ask - what would it increase and what did it reduce? Why do this and what will happen next? Will it be good or bad?
Adding fantastic properties
It is necessary to choose some object or animal and to assume what will happen if its properties appear in humans. For example, bamboo grows very fast, has a solid dense bark and a thin trunk. A person can then grow over a few meters in a year, thanks to a hard skin, he will not be afraid of cuts and scratches, he can pass through narrow slits, because he will become thinner, etc.
Exclusion of important abilities
Suppose a person does not need to sleep, or he can not speak, is not sensitive to pain, has forgotten how to laugh or cry ... You can pick out any properties of people and think what will happen if they disappear.
These and any other means of developing imagination are taught to fantasize and invent, and then rationally think. And this is the main goal of all methods of developing imagination - to teach the solution of any problem, everyday and non-standard, to be effective and successful in any life situation.