Importance of creativity in play:

• Personality characteristic – For the child well-being by improving their self-esteem and self-worth. When they express their creativity, they express their emotions.
• Intellectual process – To develop intellectual growth as creativity allows children to explore ways to solve problems because a problem can have various ways to solve. They learn to grow and face the world with experiences they got.
• Creative product – There will always be a creative product produced at the end of the creative activity but the process is more important than the end result.

Stages of creative development in children

• Early stage – Cannot differentiate what is toy and non-toy, spend hours in exploring, manipulating and investigating the things that they manage to got hold of. For example, squeezing the sponge in the paint bucket.
• Nonrepresentational stage – Whatever they created will only For example, in painting, it seems to have more design and intention behind them but not recognizable by anyone but the children.
• Representational stage – The creative product can be recognised by other people. Fro example, they can draw a human that look more like a human now with proper eyes, mouth, nose, ears, fingers and so on.