Abstract: Natural experiment was used in this study to explore the effects ofusing structural toys in teaching preschoolers, arousing their imaginationand developing their creative ability. The subjects were 50 boys andgirls in a boarding kindergarten whose mean age was 4 years and 8months. The variables in the experiment were four different teachingmethods: (1) imitation-transform method; (2) changing imitative objectsmethod; (3) imitating life-prototype method; (4) transforming life-proto-type method. In teaching the control group, only the imitation methodwas used. After 7 months of experimental teaching, the general intell-igence and creative ability of the experimental group obviously exceededthat of the control group. The data have proved that there is a positivecorrelation of 0.4 between the preschoolers' general intelligence and theircreativity.

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