Posted in Fun learning

To spark creativity in myself and my chilren I have:

• Endless supply of paper - Construction, plain, card stock, drawing
• crayons, markers, pens, pencils, paints. (Each of my children has their own rubbermaid totes with their own supplies in them.
• pencil sharpeners
• glue (stick, regular white glue and rubber cement)
• Tape (scotch, double sided, duct)
• Notebooks
• Rubbermaid totes full of craft stuff. This is from stuff I buy when I see good sales. Stuff like pipe cleaners, pom-poms, safety pins, beads, felt, fabric, Plaster of Paris, yarn and a bunch of other goodies. These totes are accessible at any time!
• Camera's
• Music (all sorts)
• Musical instruments
• Books! Books create all sorts of sparks!

The list goes on! The gist of this - let your kids have fun. Let them create without your interferance! Let them drum on different things. Let them draw a "brown bear" purple. Let them sing their own songs.

Being creative isn't just making crafts.. it's taking something from your imagination and putting it to some sort of media. It's writing a story or a poem. It's making sculpters in a mud puddle. It's building with legos. It's knitting a scarf. It's capturing a picture. It's trying different spices in foods. It's singing a song from your heart. It's sewing a quilt. It's coming up with new ideas!

What do you do to spark creativity?

©Dianna A. 2007