Forming of children's creative imagination by animated cartoons and fairy tale books

Abstract

Currently, there has been a big change in the form of spending free time because a large part of the average person's life is occupied by the Internet. Every day we browse pages, watch programs, movies and series. Activities involving children have also changed. Today, full playgrounds or libraries are a rare picture. The youngest generations absorb visual content much more often - various types of animated cartoons, which they often watch several hours a day. Sometimes cartoons are also used by parents as a form of bribery or as a kind of seizing the child's attention for some time. The purpose of this article is to find the answer to the question of how the form of content (text, movie), inspiring the creation of artistic products, affects the creative imagination of a child. At the beginning we present the scientific position in this matter, and then the results of our own research. As a tool in the research, the Kate Franck Drawing Completion Test was used, which measures the imagination of the examined person, and then the method of product analysis was used, , referring to the category of creative imagination. Two groups of children from the second grade of primary school took part in the study and were asked to create drawings after learning the presented content. For one group a fairy tale was presented in the text form, but for the second group: in the form of the animated cartoon. Students from the group listening to the story read from the book, on the created drawings added a lot of original ideas, variously presented the reality of the fairy tale heard, in contrast to the second group, in which the drawings of all students were very similar to each other. The results of the study indicate that cartoons in a form of the movie much less stimulate children to use their creative imagination, than fairy tales in a text form, which allows them to activate their creative potential.