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12 Free Resources for Practicing Creativity
Being creative entails taking risks, using your imagination, and thinking beyond the box. Everyone is creative, and while many people mistakenly believe that originality requires artistic talent, creativity is a skill that can be developed in a variety of ways. It’s a journey rather than a single “aha” moment.
Believing you are creative is the first and most important step towards becoming creative. It can require some practise. That’s why we’ve compiled these 12 fantastic resources for adults and kids on creativity:
1. Make A Pig Fly (Activity for Youth)
You may improve your brainstorming skills with practise. Apply the four brainstorming principles to the entertaining task of making a pig fly after learning about the regulations. Don’t be fooled by the frivolous subject; this game is excellent for encouraging adults to exercise their imagination as well.
2. Scratch Coding (Tool for Youth)
With the help of the programming environment Scratch, kids may make their own interactive stories, games, and simulations. They can then share those works with other young programmers from around the world in an online community.
3. Learning Creative Learning (Online Course for Educators)
In order to develop a global community of like-minded educators and learners who nurture the same atmosphere of creative learning that it is teaching to participants, the Lifelong Kindergarten group at MIT’s Media Lab offers the free Learning Creative Learning course.
4. The Pitch Game (Activity for All Ages)
Teachers frequently tell us that they would love to include entrepreneurial learning in their lessons but are time-constrained. A quick and simple approach to convey the entrepreneurial process and the associated mindsets and abilities is through this imaginative game!
5. Canva (Tool for All Ages)
Canva is a platform for graphic design that is used to produce visual content such as presentations, posters, films, social media graphics, papers, and more. The tool comes with a tonne of templates to get your imagination flowing! For K12 educators and their students, it is completely free.
6. Taking Imagination Seriously (Video for Educators and Older Youth)
When her paints vanished, Janet Echelman was forced to reassess everything and came up with fresh, original solutions, which helped her discover her true voice as an artist.
7. Reverse Brainstorming (Technique for All Ages)
By using reverse brainstorming, think creatively outside the box to solve problems. This isn’t your typical brainstorming method because you exacerbate the issue instead of addressing it!
8. Empower Phrases (Printable Poster)
What a Great Idea (WAGILabs) encourages young people to express their creativity and to master the Seven C’s of entrepreneurship. This Empower Phrases poster is just one of many excellent tools available to young people to encourage and develop their capacity for original thought and problem-solving.
9. SCAMPER (Technique for Youth)
Your initial idea is almost never your best one, which is one of the fundamental principles of creativity. Time spent revisiting, redesigning, and rediscovering things frequently results in innovations that turn mediocre ideas into brilliant ones. SCAMPER allows this process of reinvention wonderfully. Despite the fact that this activity uses a festive decoration, anything can be SCAMPERED!
10. Creativity with Constraints (Video for Educators)
Tina serves as the faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Programme, a unit of Stanford Engineering dedicated to assisting entrepreneurs in transforming their concepts, passion, and zeal into tangible goods. According to the theory put forward in this lecture, “if necessity is the mother of invention, then constraints are the father.”
11. Moonshots (Game for High Schoolers and Adults)
This game was created by X (formerly GoogleX) and is based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, which will require the sharpest brains and most creative solutions to achieve. The game has a total of 10,000 potential permutations thanks to its 100 problem cards and 100 technology cards.
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