Creative Play for 2-5's: Recognize and Stimulate Your Child's Natural Talents

The ages from 2 to 5 are a crucial stage of life for developing a child's talents, and every youngster will advance more quickly with the psychologically designed games and projects in this innovative book. Here are hundreds of practical, fun-filled activities to stimulate the imagination and build skills in music, art, drama, language, science, and math. Parents can use the "talent spotter" tables to identify special gifts and the year-by-year development charts to make sure their child is achieving full potential. To give parents a better grasp of how much difference activities like these can make, the author, a psychologist noted for her research in child development, explains the nature of creativity and its links with imagination, intelligence, and giftedness.

Dr Dorothy Einon is the author of a number of bestselling books on early years play. A psychologist at University College, London, Dr Einon has a special interest in child development and has researched both the functions of play and the psychology of learning. She has taught in educational centres around the world and appears regularly on TV and radio.