Within the Nursery setting Creative development is designed to help children learn how to express themselves and communicate in different ways.

What does creative development mean to us here at Hydesville?

• Being creative - responding to experiences - expressing and communicating ideas
• Exploring media and materials
• Creating music and dance
• Developing imagination and imaginative play

The early years foundation stage says:

"Children's creativity must be extended by the provision of support for their curiosity, exploration and play. They must be provided with opportunities to explore and share their thoughts, ideas and feelings, for example through a variety of art, music, movement, dance, imaginative and role play activities, mathematics and design and technology."

"Creativity is about taking risks and making connections and is strongly linked to play. It emerges as children become absorbed in action and explorations of their own ideas and the way they represent their experiences is unique."

Within the Nursery setting we provide a wide range of creative activities from play dough, glueing, painting, role play (imaginative play) and many more. 

Creative Development within our Nursery is made up of the following aspects:

Being Creative - Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas - This is about how children attending our Nursery are able to respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch or feel and how, as a result of these encounters, they express and communicate their own ideas, thoughts and feelings.

Exploring Media and Materials -  This is about children's independent and guided exploration of and engagement with a widening range of media and materials, finding out about, thinking about and working with colour, texture, shape, space and form in two and three dimensions.

Creating Music and Dance - This is about children's independent and guided explorations of sound, movement and music. Focusing on how sounds can be made and changed and how sounds can be recognised and repeated from a pattern, it includes ways of exploring movement, matching movements to music and singing simple songs from memory.

Developing Imagination and Imaginative Play - is about how children are supported to develop and build their imaginations through stories, role-plays, imaginative play, dance, music, design, and art.