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PACEY Live webinar: Creativity and the arts in early years

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with Ruth Churchill Dower, director of Earlyarts

Creativity is an essential part of every child’s growth and development and equips them with skills they can use in every area of life. In June 2022 PACEY was joined in conversation with Ruth Churchill Dower, Director of EarlyArts to explore the importance of creativity. We discussed how the arts support physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development and how you can build your own creative confidence as well as nurture children's innate creativity.

Catch up on the live below.

#Signposts

PACEY resources

  • Spotlight on…Mark making
  • Explore our activity hub for lots of ideas
  • We know that you have some amazing creative ideas, join our Ideas for creative childcare Facebook group and get inspiration, find tips, ideas and activities and share yours too!
  • Play is key to children's learning. It underpins physical, social and emotional development and these resources will help you explore the role you have in supporting children's play.
  • FREE training for members on CEY smart
    • New courses developed in association with Earlyarts in the ‘Let's get creative’ theme
      • An introduction to Creativity and the Arts in early years
      • Exploring the conditions for nurturing creativity in practice
      • Mark making and drawing
      • Malleable and modelling materials
      • Movement and dance
      • Role play, puppetry and story building
      • Music and singing

External resources

  • Award winning training, research, and consultancy company Earlyarts.
  • Creativity and the Arts in Early Childhood. Supporting young children's development and wellbeing by Ruth Churchill Dower, 2019. ISBN-10: 1785926136

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