Creativity-At-Home: Resource Brochure

— by Jason Blair

This brochure was designed to help exercise and grow children’s creative muscles at home. All children are born with creative potential. In order for that creative potential to stretch and grow, we must provide rich opportunities and environments for them to experiment, play and engage their creative capacities in new and exciting ways. Inside this brochure, you will find several sections to spark ideas and uncover possibilities.

The brochure is organized into 4 sections. It is designed to enter at any section and jump around freely throughout its pages. It also encouraged to see what ideas each section sparks for you, follow your creative path and unlock your own creative potential in the process.

Section 1: CREATIVITY-AT-HOME

This section features several open-ended creativity challenges for the whole family. Several of the challenges have links to an example video that will help explain the challenge further. Remember, you don’t have to follow these challenges exactly, you might want to change them up, combine them or invent your own!

Section 2: ONLINE ART

This section features links to various digital art making tools. Each site has unique opportunities to stretch your creative muscles. While all of these sites are child friendly, practice cyber-safety and preview all online links before letting children use them.

This section challenges children to teach others how to stretch and grow creative muscles. Perhaps they create a, “How-to...” video, teach a dance, make a snack, or share ways a family can make a fort. The sky is the limit in this section and the child is the teacher!

Section 4: PARENT CREATIVITY RESOURCES

This section features book links, articles, websites, links to toys and games, links to virtual museums and much more. The purpose of this section, is to provide a starting point for digging deeper into creativity development. Have fun with this brochure. Jump around and see what ideas, activities and experiences you can engage in, to grow creative thinkers in your home or school! Please email me with any questions.

To download your copy of CREATIVITY-AT-HOME visit tinyurl.com/93sn88yd

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jason Blair believes the creativity of our children will change the world. Currently, Jason is co-assistant director on the Project Zero--Cultivating Creative and Civic Capacities project. He is also the Teacher-Leader- in-Residence with the Columbus Museum of Art. Jason received his MA in art education from The Ohio State University. Currently, he teaches elementary art at Abraham Depp Elementary School in Dublin, Ohio. schoolteachers@mac.com

blair_jason@dublinschools.net www.growcreativethinkers.com