Creative Play Vs. Organized Activities

Both creative play for children and organized activities provide benefits for children and their growth. Creative play fosters a lot of independent thinking and freeform entertainment, while organized activities can create a sense of accomplishment for creating goals, while also teaching children how to be responsible with their tasks. Personally, I believe that for me, creative play can provide more benefits to a child and their growth than organized play, as long as the proper supervision can keep them from trouble. However, I also believe that this is not a definitive case and that it all depends on each and every child to their preferences.

The reason I think creative play provides more benefits comes from my own personal experience when I was younger. As a child, I had a lot of organized activities, and unfortunately, some of them I wasn't very excited for. Without the excitement for the organized activity, my happiness and motivation for that task went down, and rather than benefitting the children I was grouped with, I was only a hindrance, complaining about how I had to do something I didn't want to do.

Over time I slowly learned I had to be more responsible with my tasks, but I never ignored the fact that I

An organized activity draws in people that are interested in the activity, or draws in those with similar goals as you. On the other hand, a creative activity draws in people that think "This looks interesting, wonder what he's doing", which is a self-motivated interest and not enforced by any preset rules or preset groups. This may seem like a creative activity has an advantage over a organized activity, but looking at the big picture, it doesn't have that much of an impact, in my personal opinion. Most times, children will interact with each other as long as an activity is actually being done, so which activity is actually happening is of little