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In our digital age, the power of craft has never been so important for boosting children’s confidence, creativity and personal skills WORDS: Charlie Lyon
T Above: set young imaginations free with a Center Parcs crafting activity
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here’s no hiding from technology today. It’s everywhere and there’s a new generation growing up who won’t know life without it. In 2018, the UK’s communications regulator Ofcom found that 19% of three-to-four year olds owned a tablet and 52% went online for nearly nine hours a week. Many of the children surveyed, aged three to 15, were looking for “content and creativity” online, and often used vlogger sites to find it.
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