ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Valentine
Now you can make your own Valentines Day card with ABCya! Kids choose backgrounds, borders, and stickers, and then print their customized creations to hand out to friends and family.
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Ab Cya: Make a Treehouse
Design the treehouse of your dreams with ABCya's Make a Treehouse! Choose from tree types, wood varieties and more. Would you like to build a house in a rainbow eucalyptus tree? No problem! How about a roller coaster entrance, and a...
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Ab Cya: Make a Skateboard
Make a Skateboard is a radical activity for gnarly skaters of all ages! Go through a step-by-step process selecting different board shapes, grip tape, trucks, wheels, paint, stickers, and awesome extras! No two boards are the same. What...
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Ab Cya: Make a Cupcake
Make a Cupcake is fun activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Kids go through a step-by-step process selecting different cupcake colors, frostings, sprinkles and toppings! No two cupcakes are alike! Remember to press "Finished"...
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Ab Cya: Make a Cookie
Make a Cookie is yummy activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Kids go through a step-by-step process selecting different cookie shapes, colors, frostings, sprinkles and toppings! No two cookies are alike! Celebrate the...
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Ab Cya: Make a Cake
Make a Cake is a fun computer activity for kids to learn mouse manipulation skills, letters and numbers one to ten! First, children select a cake to decorate. Next, they add different color frosting, designs, letters and numbers!...
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Ab Cya: Make a Backpack
Make a Backpack is a fun activity for students of all ages. Kids go through a step-by-step process of selecting different styles, colors, patterns, and keychains!
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Ab Cya: Make an Ice Cream
Make an Ice Cream is tasty activity for preschool and kindergarten students. Kids go through a step-by-step process selecting different cones/containers, flavors, sauces, whipped cream, and toppings! No two ice creams are alike!
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Ab Cya: Make an Easter Egg
Easter Egg Fun is a holiday activity for kids to decorate and hide an Easter Egg! Kids can choose an egg, paint it, put stickers on it, put a toy inside it, hide it and then find it!
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Ab Cya: Magic Mirror Paint
Magic Mirror Paint is an online art activity that allows users to create their own magic mirror masterpiece! With a huge pallet of colors and lots of fun tools, the only limit is your own imagination!
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Ab Cya: Jelly Slice
Jelly Slice is a unique brain and puzzle game in which you use your fingers or mouse to slice the jelly and collect the stars through challenging levels. There is only one rule: Slice the jelly so that each slice contains only 1 star....
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Careers in Advertising
Do you enjoy seeing a clever commercial on tv, on a billboard, or online? If you enjoy creativity using images and wordplay, you may be suited to a career in advertising.
Other
Science Museum: Total Darkness
When the power goes out, it's time for action in our brand new game. Venture into the dark, explore different locations and meet new characters - creating your own unique adventure as you play! Use your science skills to get the power...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 5: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Fifth graders learn that even in the most fantastical settings, literature can teach us real lessons about life. Students explore the opposition of good and evil; the value in courage, adventure, forgiveness, and honesty; and the...
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Atlas Mission: 7 Creative Development Activities for Preschoolers to Inspire
Children are born creative. However, these pint-sized artists need a little guidance to channel all that creativity into something productive. This article lists 7 super fun creative development activities for preschoolers to help...
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Atlas Mission: 7 Kindergarten Creative Thinking Activities That Are Fun for Kids
With so much emphasis put on classwork, common core curriculum, and even homework, creative thinking can get pushed to the bottom of the barrel for kids, even kindergarteners. Here are 7 activities to inspire creativity.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Media Lab: All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned in Kindergarten
This paper in pdf format focuses on how kindergarten students learn about creative thinking and emphasizes that their approach is ideally suited to the needs of the 21st century.
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Cyberartsweb: Imagination
This site, which is provided by Cyberartsweb, gives a brief definition of term "imagination" with links to related concepts.
Primary Resources
Using Sketchbooks in Primary Schools
Get your young students involved in the creative process by introducing sketchbooks in your classroom. Not sure where to start? This article will give you great beginning tips on how to get young imaginations flowing.
Kidsource OnLine
Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students
What can teachers to do encourage gifted students to exhibit creativity in the classroom? This article provides some suggestions and also list ways that adults often "kill" creativity in children.
PBS
Pbs: Creativity and Play
How can we as parents foster creativity and self-expression in our children? Peruse these ideas from PBS such as encouraging different types of creative play.
Other
Jump Start
Sometimes it is difficult to initiate your creative process. This simple online tool can help spark your creative thinking ideas.
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Encouraging Creative Thinking With Awareness Questions
Often times getting your students to think creatively is as simple as asking the right kinds of questions. This excellent article discusses the types of questions to ask and provides valuable insight into the creative thinking process.
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Techniques for Creative Thinking: Yes, They Work
A nice article that explains some of the processes that can aid in the creative thinking process. Some of the processes explained include analogical thinking, brainstorming and attribute listing.