Discovering Creativity with Babies (15€)

This book explores creative development in infants and shows how professionals can support young children’s natural curiosity and help them develop their ideas, thoughts, and feelings. It provides ideas for creating engaging, affordable, and feasible experiences that support the development of the creative mind, while also covering outdoor spaces, communication and language, and physical, social, emotional, and personal development.
By including discussion boxes, case studies, and reflection prompts in each chapter, the author offers guidance and insight into key topics and well-known theories, namely:
• how and why to foster creativity,
• attachment and adult-infant relationships,
• the environment and resources that foster creativity, and
• exploration and outdoor play.
The book *Discovering Creativity with Babies* is a wonderful guide for early childhood education professionals who want to support and nurture each child’s curious and creative nature, regardless of how they express it.

Louise Day is the Director of Wally’s Day Nursery in the United Kingdom.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1
1 What Is Creativity?
2 Fostering Creativity and Why It Is Important
3 Pioneering Influences
4 The Relationship Between Adults and Infants
5 Developing a Creative Environment for Infants
6 Resources for a Creative Environment for Infants
7 Exploring Outdoor Spaces

Part 2
8 Let Babies Play: Invitations
9 Exploring Personal, Social, and Emotional Development
10 Exploring Communication and Language
11 Exploring Physical Development
12 Exploring the Outdoors