CREATIVITY
Creativity Sets the Stage for Learning
Throughout Life!
Creativity
Being creative means to create new things,
have originality of thought and imagination.
Being able to create new forms.
Book:
IT LOOKED LIKE
SPILT MILK
1-WHAT DO YOU SEE?
2-WHAT DO YOU SEE?
3-WHAT DO YOU SEE?
4-WHAT DO YOU SEE?
5-WHAT DO YOU SEE?
6-WHAT DO YOU SEE?
7-WHAT DO YOU SEE?
Does a different angle or perspective make a difference?
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Unfinished Pictures
Complete the 6 drawings on the handout.
GUESS WHO?
At age 3, he took an avid interest in music and
was already able to detect a note that was
slightly off pitch. At age 5, he wrote short
piano pieces, and at age 7, he wrote his first
sonatas. At age 8, he wrote his first
symphony. He never attended school and he
died in poverty.
Who was he?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=dN1c7-ZmhhU
WOLFGANG AMADEUS
MOZART
GUESS WHO?
As a baby, she entertained her family by dancing to
any music she heard. At age 6 she collected a group
of babies in the neighborhood and taught them to
wave their arms as if in a school of dance. Pretending
to be 16 when she was only 10, she organized and led
dance classes in the homes of wealthy Californians.
Who was she?
ISADORA DUNCAN -The originator of Modern Dance.
1877-1927 Danced in the early 1900s .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Kq2GgIMM060
ISADORA DUNCAN -The originator of
Modern Dance. 1877-1927 Danced in
the early 1900s .
Not all children will grow up to be a
Mozart, Duncan, Shakespeare, or
Einstein.
But, there are some steps a parent might
take to strengthen and help develop a
child’s creativity.
Fostering Creativity
List the 5 ways and a couple of quick notes
on how to do it.
1- RELAX THE CONTROLS
Allow the child freedom to develop
creativity.
Avoid constant adult supervision and
control.
2- INSPIRE PERSEVERANCE
See the product through to completion.
Albert Einstein claimed that he actually had
no specific talent, that it was just his
“obsession and dogged endurance” that
helped him arrive at his world-changing
ideas.
Michael Jordan – has
perseverance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL-gQ2AvJY&t=51s
Michael Jordan
 Jordan attended high school in Wilmington, where he
highlighted his athletic career by playing basketball,
baseball, and football. He tried out for
the varsity basketball team during his sophomore year, but
at 5'11“ he was deemed too short to play at that level.
Motivated to prove his worth, Jordan became the star of
the JV squad, and tallied several 40-point games.The
following summer, he grew four inches and trained
rigorously. Upon earning a spot on the varsity roster,
Jordan averaged about 20 points per game over his final
two seasons of high school play.
3- TOLERATE DIFFERENCES
Creative children often do not fall into
social norms. They will want to know how
and why things work and look for a
different way to do things.
They often have atypical methods of
thinking.
4- BE THE CHILD’S ADVOCATE
Creative children are often not viewed
positively by teachers and peers.
Support the child and help to build his/her
self-esteem.
5- PROVIDE A CREATIVE
ENVIRONMENT
Provide a stimulating environment with lots
of tools for creative work.
Expose them to others’ creative works.
Creativity
List 3 ways that you enjoy expressing your
creativity.
THUMBIES
Make 4 thumb prints (outlines of your
thumb) on the paper.
Using markers, crayons, or colored pencils,
turn these thumb prints into anything you
want (tree, flower, bear, monkey, boy, girl, creature, car, etc.).
THUMBIES
Now create a STORY using the 4 Thumbies.
It needs to be 2-3 paragraphs long.
It should have 3-5 sentences in each paragraph.
The grammar and spelling should be correct.
It needs to be descriptive.
It needs to have a plot or a theme.
Creating your own “Spilt Milk”
 With OUT talking about this or discussing
this with anyone else in class….
Come up with an easy design that you can
manipulate to be different or abstract (like
the spilt milk book) to tear out of wax
paper.
Spilt Milk Activity Instructions
1. Take your design and tear it out of your
piece of wax paper.
2. Mount it on a piece of colored construction
paper.
3. On the back of the construction paper
number from 1-8.
4. Your design will be passed to at least 8
people.
Passing the designs around:
You will pass around your design and other
people will look at it and determine what it is.
1. Take a quick look at the design being passed to
you.
2. Turn over and on the back write down what you
think it is.
Don’t let what others have written down influence
what you write down.
At the end of class, get back your design.
Take a look at the responses that people
wrote down.
Write down what it actually is next to your
name and turn into the box.