More About Creative Play

Creative play has many important factors for children. It stimulates neuron development and a process called “myelination”. Myelin is a “sheath” that forms around neurons in the brain and makes them semi-permanent. Children will do an activity over and over until the neurons are formed, then sheathed, for that specific activity; then they'll move on to another skill. If the child is obsessed with a video, it may not be the video itself, but the language, or the music, or the images that the child is actually focused on and learning from. Creative play adds to the myelination through the development of neurons associated with the central nervous system and those in the right hemisphere of the brain, which leads to the ability to creatively solve problems and see the “big picture” later in life.