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What will you create today?

Strategies

Painting

Whitney Freya

Create a Quantum Leap

New ways of doing things.

Souletry

Home

Molly Anderson

Fear: Muse & motivator

How your fears can prompt you to action.

Features

Joy Sikorski

Joy Sikorski

Whimsical drawing lessons

From How to Draw a Clam and Squeaky Chalk.

Creativity

Abstract

Michael Michalko

What's not taught in school

About creative thinking.

People

Creativity 101

James C. Kaufman, PhD

Creativity 101: Defining Creativity

The history of the study of creativity.

Muses

Audacity

Modern Day Muses

5 Belief strategies

From an audacious muse.

Genius

Creativity 101

James C. Kaufman, PhD

Is Creativity Indefinable?

The many different ways in which someone can be creative.

C-1-2-3

Creativity Illuminator

funmire

The Great Creativity Illuminator

Creative thinking shifts perspective.

funmire

Anecdote

Anecdote

Two neighbors

Crab apples and winters.

Interact

Swing into creative play

Chris Dunmire

Swing into creative play!

18 Mini-golf brain-stretchers.

Coaching

Painting

Riva Weinstein

The Creative Squeeze

There are endless ways to turn the creative squeeze into nurturing hugs of creative energy and inspiration.

Art making

Firefly

Joy Sikorski

Draw a firefly

From How to Draw a Cup of Coffee

Writing

Perfect Personal Essay

Perfect Personal Essay

Why You Have to Make Up with Your Siblings

If you don't show me your broken heart, then I can't find myself in your story.

Printables

Art by Angela Blaha

Angela Blaha

The myth of the lightning bolt

What real creative revelation looks like.

Teaching

Fostering Creativity in Children

Abby Connors

Differences:creative arts + thinking

Beyond arts education.