Are you creative?
Posted on February 19th, 2010 by Brenna Phillips
Many people are asked this question. Many responses are: “No, I’m not very creative.” Actually that answer is not exactly true. Creativity comes in many forms. According to a recent article by NAEYC, “Creative people are those who can imagine.” In this article, the teacher asked a class of preschoolers to show her crooked shapes. She saw children moving and bending in all sorts of directions and shapes. There was no one correct answer. All moves were crooked shapes. Creative children may not be academically gifted. If adults insist on correct answers each time, then children will find it difficult to express their own individual creative spirits.
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