This document discusses creativity in primary language classrooms and provides examples of craft activities that can promote creativity. It defines craft as an activity involving skill in making things by hand. Some craft ideas presented include origami, bookmarks, door hangers, fortune tellers, pencil pots, dice, board games, bunting, flags, puppets, felt sewing, playdoh, greeting cards, paper dolls, paper animals, beads, masks, crowns, photo frames, shakers, jigsaws, and story sticks. The goal is to use crafts to help students be creative and inventive rather than just repeating what others have done.

2. “The principal goal of education
is to create people who are
capable of doing new things,
not simply repeating what other
generations have done – people
who are creative, inventive,
discoverers”
Piaget

3. What is creativity in the
Primary Languages classroom ?
creativity in
the curriculum
creative
methodology
linguistic
creativity
craft and
creativity

4. What is craft ?
An activity involving skill in making
things by hand
OED

5. Why craft ?

8. Origami

9. Bookmarks

10. Door handle hangers
accroche porte
cartel para puerta

11. Fortune tellers

12. Pencil pots

13. Dice and spinners

14. Board games

15. Bunting, mobiles and washing lines

16. Flags

17. Puppets

18. Simple sewing with felt

19. Playdoh and Plasticine

20. Greetings cards

21. Paper dolls
pantin articulé
títere articulado

22. Paper animals
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23. Beads
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www.milfiestasinfantiles.com

24. Masks
petitestetes.com

25. Crowns and hats
teteamodeler.com
conmishijos.com

26. Photo frames and holders
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detodomanualidades.com/

27. Shakers

28. Jigsaws

29. Artefacts

30. Story sticks and story stones
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