TGIF and just for fun, here are some creativity cartoons. Don’t overanalyze them.  Just enjoy them!

My gut feeling for the past few years has been that the negative side of testing in schools is a loss of creativity.  Now there is research that turns that gut feeling into reality.  According to a Newsweek article, American creativity is on the decline.  In 1958, Professor E. Paul Torrance designed a test to [...]

I just found what I’ve been wanting for a long time – a program that lets me easily create computer activities using my own material, one with all the bells and whistles.  Unfortunately I also found that it’s designed for the corporate world and priced accordingly.  Take a look at Raptivity and you’ll see what I [...]

I really don’t have much of a sense of color so I was excited to find simple color wheels that help you decide on good color combinations, depending on whether you want to use warm or cool colors and whether you want your colors to be complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, rectangle or square.  If you [...]

Erin found this interesting article on creativity.  I used to think that I wasn’t creative because I couldn’t draw a thing.  Once I had to label my drawing of a car because my students didn’t know what it was.  Clip art is my friend!  But I can tell you that many of my friends and [...]

Here’s a creative art contest for students in grades K-12.  Teachers have to register their classes for students to particpate and in addition, must submit each student’s entry form, parent consent form, student doodle, student title for doodle and student supporting statement.  The topic is “If I could do anything, I would …”  What a [...]

If you can’t draw without erasing, but hate the crumbs from erasers, try the online sketch pad.  You can scribble or draw in many different colors.  You can make arcs, ovals and polygons effortlessly.  Best of all, you can erase everything with one click and start over.

I had heard about this super easy-to-use program called Photo Story 3 from a number of different people, but didn’t get a chance to check it out until today.  Wow, it’s awesome!  It’s free software you download from Microsoft that allows you to create a simple photo story with audio narration and music.  I was [...]

These are just the hats I’m rejecting!  The rest are in plastic boxes labeled by type.  You may not have silly hats, but do you have an old baseball cap?  How about a fun ski hat?  A tennis visor?  A sun hat?  Hats can add a bit of fun to your usual routine.  Match [...]

   
The OCEAN, THE SOUTH POLE, A DESERT, A ROAD - You can probably guess that I lean toward costumes that cannot be bought at a Halloween store.  I start with something from my basement, get out my glue gun and go from there!  I like the costume ideas at Family Education because they are very creative [...]