Arts and Crafts Come with Time

As Maria Montessori writes, the biggest happiness is to watch children, to see how they develop, how they become curious about the surrounding world.

Just I would like to share the observations of how Maria was growing up in terms of developing her creative abilities and her likes/dislikes of the tools to create masterpieces =)

She started going to the toddler’s school when she was just 1y. 4 m., which she enjoyed a lot. There she was offered to try to work with the modeling clay, to paint with crayons, to play with cereal, as well as to dance, make exercises etc.

In the beginning the only thing Maria liked was physical activities and listening to the cheerful songs. Being a bit disappointed with her dislikes of other activities, I was also offering her crayons, clay, paints at home. No result! When growing older (~1y.6m)., the started to enjoy gluing things together. At the age of 1y. 8m. she actively started to work with clay (our flat resembled sculptor’s workshop with pieces of clay being everywhere). Finally, the non-fading desire to draw with crayons came in place, which appeared when Maria was about 1y.11m. Still she is not very much keen on paints (enjoys but for a very short period of time).

So, it will all come with time and every child will try him/herself in as many fields as s/he will be willing ,in order to be able to find their major occupation.