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THE IMPORTANCE OF CREATIVITY

1-Creativity promotes emotional development-

Creative expression provides many opportunities for expressing emotions and working through those emotions to gain relief and understanding of them.

To help your child do this you could encourage a child who is angry to draw or paint a picture of how they are feeling. You could play varied types of music that invoke different emotions and then ask your child how the music makes them feel.

2-Creativity promotes social development-

In young childhood, creativity is often a social act. Singing, dancing, puppetry, and theater all teach the child to pay attention to others as well as develop an understanding of social rules like give and take, and cooperation.

Have a dance party with other children or have the child and their friends put on a play or puppet show.

3-Creativity supports physical development-

Working with art materials such as crayons, scissors, paint brushes, play dough and paint promote fine motor skills and eye-hand coordination.

To promote gross motor skills try dancing, mural painting, theater, or large construction projects like building things with boxes.

4-Creativity supports language and literacy development-

By engaging in creative play or projects, children can learn new vocabulary words as well as learn to associate pictures with words.

As mentioned above try playing different kinds of music and creating a conversation with the child about how it makes them feel; this will boost language expression and understanding.

Expose your child to plenty of instruments and talk to them about their favorite one and what sound each instrument makes. Ask them open ended questions about their art work such as “how did you feel when you drew this” or “how does this painting make you feel?”

5-Creativity promotes cognitive development-

Creative activities help children to develop attention skills and cognitive learning. Their imagination is in full use and it encourages them to come up with new ideas and to think outside of the box since creativity involves exploration and problem solving.

Through creative activities such as playing with play dough, children can learn pre-math skills such as the concept of less and more. When children match shapes or colors in their creations they are learning the math skill one to one correspondence.

Creative activities can help them learn about grouping and classification, physical properties of objects, and cause and effect. Painting and play dough are all great ways to explore these concepts.

There are four components of creativity as described by Psychologist Ellis P. Torrance: fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.

Fluency is the ability to produce a number of different ideas. To promote fluency provide children with plenty of opportunities that stimulate the thought process.

Ask open ended questions and questions that ask the child’s opinion. Encourage the child to explore and experiment and this will enhance cognitive growth.

Flexibility is the ability to approach different situations and develop solutions from a number of different perspectives.

Foster flexibility by allowing plenty of opportunities to explore and experiment. Allowing children to experiment and make mistakes unleashes their creative thinking and a sense of wonder. They feel free to imagine, invent, create, and try out new ways to do things.

Asking questions during an activity or when a problem arises such as “how is another way we could do this or solve it?” encourages children to think outside of the box.

Originality is the ability to have a new or novel idea.

To promote originality, provide a variety of supplies and experiences in which children can use their imagination and create.

By painting or constructing something out of play dough they are creating something out of nothing.

Elaboration is the ability to extend ideas. Give children new ways of doing old ideas and activities. For instance, providing pipe cleaner and other items to stick into play dough would allow children to elaborate in their play.

15 ideas for expressin creativity in everyday life:

1. Make your immediate surroundings as beautiful or eccentric as you can. Experiment with your sense of color, texture, and line. Add an element of surprise or quirkiness to your home decor. The unexpected can jolt you out of complacency and into inspiration.

2. Go somewhere new–as close as a restaurant you’ve never tried or as far as China. New places excite the mind and senses and when we are excited our creative abilities soar.

3. Spend 10 minutes a day dreaming out the window.

4. Don’t censor yourself.

5. Do something new or something old in a brand new way. As Picasso said “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

6. Slow down your perceptions so you savor them–that means eat slowly and taste your food, look closely at the flowers in the garden, spend time writing down and drawing your perceptions.

7. Believe in and follow your ‘What ifs’–what if I was an amazing writer? What if I could make a revolutionary spaceship? What if when I walk across a room it feels like floating?

When we ‘what if’ ourselves, we start to believe we can achieve our dreams. That is the first step to making them come true.

8. Spend 15 minutes looking around with the eyes of a child. Remember that sense of wonderment, love of color, surprise, curiosity and hunger to explore. It can get your creativity going because you are remembering how you were once very imaginative.

9. Take a notebook and pen everywhere you go and jot down your observations. We often have innovative ideas but we forget them if we don’t record them.

10. Don’t over-criticize yourself. At worst it will kill and at best cripple your creative hopes and dreams.

11. Make up a visualization in which you observe yourself imagining and creating effortlessly. Picture yourself loving the process.

12. Just Do It! Creativity is a muscle: use it or lose it. Dance, draw, brainstorm, change your life. The more you use your creativity, the easier it becomes and the better you get at it.

13. Collaborate creatively with like-minded friends–write a journal together, make a quilt, design a new play space, choreograph a dance piece, start a new business.

14. Dress wildly–revel in color and texture. Buy or make a fabulous hat. Don’t be age appropriate.

15. Remember the words of Samuel Becket, on the secret to life-long creativity: “fail, fail again, fail better”!

In our industry creativity and innovation are vitally important. To innovate, creative individuals are essential. Here at So Vibrant we unleash our creativity and seek innovation in all we do, that’s how we make change happen.

Creativity and innovation rely on each other in many ways, but it’s easy to get confused between them both and how they are used.

But what’s the difference?

Creativity refers to generating new ideas, the capability of conceiving something original that others have missed,a form of expression, a way of solving problems. However, alone it is just not enough. You need to be able to do something with it.“Creativity is contagious, pass it on.”– Albert Einstein

Innovation refers to the implementation of an idea, the action; it is applied creativity. '''“The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.” –W. Arthur Porter'''

Companies do not innovate, people do. For example as a team we are always evolving our thinking, techniques and technology, seeking out and implementing innovation that improves, empowering clients to make clever choices that allow them to stay ahead of the game and attain long-term success.

All companies have the ability to be creative, but not all of them have the ambition, drive, and knowledge to harness their creativity in order to drive innovation.

The greatest innovations are the simple ones we take for granted, and usually they develop from a creative mind. Nurturing a culture that allows for innovation is vital. Striving for continual innovation is the key, the ability to always make an impact on your audience. Don’t ever think that what you have done previously will be sufficient in the future, always endeavor to develop further. Innovation is the most critical factor for success, and without creativity it is stifled.

In the great words of Bill Gates: “Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.” -Bill Gates