Here's why a little daydreaming has powerful effects on young minds…

 

For children, daydreaming can help them create, practice, and process dialogues they may have with others.

Daydreaming rejuvenates the mind. When your little one lets their brain wander wherever it likes, it has a lot more benefits than you might initially imagine. For a start, it gives their brains a rest from active learning and processing, instead letting them take some mental rest to recharge. If you’ve ever seen them in school (or immediately after pick-up!), you’ll know that they’re naturally inclined towards play after a lot of focus - especially the imaginative, day-dreaming kind. It can occupy more complex areas of the brain than previously thought, so much so that to solve a difficult problem it may be better for your child to switch to a simpler task and let their mind wander.

Fostering daydreaming can be wonderful for their creativity and imagination, and there are so many ways you can support their growing minds. Children who are allowed time to think without distractions develop vivid and entertaining imaginations - entering those inner unknown realms can help spark creativity and help them formulate ideas. A few examples are with puzzles that they can play with in multiple ways, building something new with blocks, reading alone or with you, and anything artistic - whether that’s drawing, painting or sculpting.

Another wonderful benefit is that daydreaming inspires ambition and goals for your little ones' future! A daydream can most certainly become a future reality. One of our favourite quotes, “If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it,” summarises this beautifully. And remember, the biggest brains the world has ever known, including the likes of Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci and Walt Disney, were all big daydreamers, and their daydreams went on to change the world!

 

To give your little one a companion on their wonderful daydreaming journeys, we created something inspired by looking at our own children:

 

 

"The idea for The Daydream Collection came from when I was looking at my newborn baby and just wondering what she is daydreaming about - what do babies dream about?! Daydreams, they’re just one step towards making magic happen and making a dream reality. I feel like so much of what I do at Olli Ella is Daydreaming. Thinking about toys and thinking about how to make someone happy and how to design something that does bring a little bit of magic into people’s lives. The prints were inspired by nostalgia, by clothing and toys that Chloe and I used to wear when we were babies" - Creator & Co-founder, Olivia.

The Daydream Collection is designed to celebrate all our daydreamers and the wonderful places their minds go. No two children are the same - and no two daydreams will ever happen twice either. We designed these to tap into the world of imaginative play and the way in which our children's daydreams can be influenced by their environment.

"We feel like teaching that nurturing and that closeness is something that is inherent in all children, so we wanted to introduce new careers to go along with these prints"-Creator & Co-founder, Olivia.