Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Generating New Ideas: Think Differently and Spark Creativity
Need a fresh idea? Many students and teachers often can get stuck in a rut and their creative juices simply stop flowing. Help generate new ideas by learning how to break thought processes, connect the unconnected, shift your...
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Creativity Tools
There are two different styles of creativity, technical and artistic. This article focuses on technical creativity and its two main strands, programmed thinking and lateral thinking, with examples of each approach.
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: How Creative Are You?
Do you know how creative you are? Take this quiz and find comprehensive and personalized answers to find your creative strengths and weaknesses.
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Mycoted: Lateral Thinking Puzzles
A storehouse of puzzles designed to train the brain to think in atypical ways. Find riddles, visual puzzles, analogies, math problems, and more. Excellent source of raw material for practicing original and creative thinking one puzzle at...
Other
Pixton: Make and Share Comics
Create your own comic with the "click-n-drag" method using characters, props, and speech bubbles at the click of a button.
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Creating Minds: Creative Tools
Do you need help being creative? Here is an excellent resource that lists many different tools or techniques that can aid you in being creative. Each tool includes information for when to use it, how to use it, examples in its use and...
Caro Clarke
The Doldrums: When the Wind Leaves Your Sails
This is the 16th article in a series that gives advice to the new novel writer. This is a particularly interesting and helpful article on how to deal with periods in writing when your enthusiasm wanes.
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Teaching Creativity Skills: Creative Thinking Skills for Life and Education
Presents information about how to use creativity in the classroom. There are also many links to other sites that contain additional resources pertaining to creativity.
Sesame Street
Sesame Street: Creativity and the Arts
Advice for parents of preschool-age children, but pertinent to anyone interested in early child development, for using the arts to prepare children for school success.
Read Works
Read Works: Alyssa Wears a Bow Tie
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a fictional narrative about a girl who chooses to show her creativity by wearing a bow tie on the first day of school. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center: Invention Process
Through a number of articles, stories and research we learn about the invention process, including communicating your ideas, staying resilient when things go wrong.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Why Tech Needs the Humanities
On the TED stage, Eric Berridge shares why tech companies should look beyond STEM graduates for new hires and how people with backgrounds in the arts and humanities can bring creativity and insight to technical workplaces.
Edutopia
Edutopia: How to Use Play for Learning
Play is a primary and integral mode through which children make sense of the world, and that it is essential to their development and well-being. This article offers ideas on how to balance play and academic expectations in your classroom.
Other
Roots of Action: How Kids Learn to Take Initiative and Overcome Challenges
Learning to take initiative is a behavior that helps kids navigate their lives with courage and optimism. This article provides insights into how children learn to take initiative. Parents and teachers are key mentors in the process. A...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Dr. Seuss on the Loose
In Dr. Seuss' first published children's book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, Marco, inspired by the passing of a horse and wagon, imagines a series of increasingly incredible sights on his way home from school. This...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Valentine
Now you can make your own Valentines Day card with ABCya! Kids choose backgrounds, borders, and stickers, and then print their customized creations to hand out to friends and family.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Treehouse
Design the treehouse of your dreams with ABCya's Make a Treehouse! Choose from tree types, wood varieties and more. Would you like to build a house in a rainbow eucalyptus tree? No problem! How about a roller coaster entrance, and a...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Skateboard
Make a Skateboard is a radical activity for gnarly skaters of all ages! Go through a step-by-step process selecting different board shapes, grip tape, trucks, wheels, paint, stickers, and awesome extras! No two boards are the same. What...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Cupcake
Make a Cupcake is fun activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Kids go through a step-by-step process selecting different cupcake colors, frostings, sprinkles and toppings! No two cupcakes are alike! Remember to press "Finished"...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Cookie
Make a Cookie is yummy activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Kids go through a step-by-step process selecting different cookie shapes, colors, frostings, sprinkles and toppings! No two cookies are alike! Celebrate the...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Cake
Make a Cake is a fun computer activity for kids to learn mouse manipulation skills, letters and numbers one to ten! First, children select a cake to decorate. Next, they add different color frosting, designs, letters and numbers!...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Backpack
Make a Backpack is a fun activity for students of all ages. Kids go through a step-by-step process of selecting different styles, colors, patterns, and keychains!
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make an Ice Cream
Make an Ice Cream is tasty activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Kids go through a step-by-step process selecting different cones/containers, flavors, sauces, whipped cream, and toppings! No two ice creams are alike!
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Ab Cya: Make an Easter Egg
Easter Egg Fun is a holiday activity for kids to decorate and hide an Easter Egg! Kids can choose an egg, paint it, put stickers on it, put a toy inside it, hide it and then find it!