Children’s wellbeing and creativity

Introduction

This short course is designed to introduce you to creativity and its link to children and young people’s wellbeing. It explores children and young people’s engagement with creative activities that contribute to and promote their wellbeing. You will look at a number of ways in which children and young people’s wellbeing can be enhanced and supported through their engagement with convivial, community and creative activities – promoting wellbeing can be fun! You will be introduced to a further couple of models of wellbeing with a view to helping you piece together the concept of wellbeing.

This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course KE207 Supporting children and young people’s wellbeing [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .