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 2014 Award-Winner! Creativity Portal Wins '101 Best Website' Award! By Chris Dunmire Writer's Digest magazine has again named Creativity Portal on their annual 101 BEST WEBSITES FOR WRITERS list! This year we're honored with an extra bonus — a 'Best of the Best' callout, for the first time, the #1 spot in their creativity category for 2014.  WD writes: "Spark your imagination with the Creativity Portal. Alongside how-to articles and exercises focused on brainstorming ideas for your work, check out the site's Imagination Prompt Generator, Travel Adventure Writing Prompts, and 100 Creativity Interviews section." Thank you, Writer's Digest, for this high honor. And thank you to all of our wonderful, artistic, creative contributors for making our community such a rich resource with advice, book excerpts, prompts, and printables for teachers, parents, writers, and other seeking to explore and express their creativity!
Creativity Interviews  Singer/Songwriter Jill Allison BryanQ: Why is creativity important to you? A: I truly can’t imagine my life without creativity. I’m so thankful that creativity infuses all aspects of my life from deciding what to make for dinner to what I wear to writing and recording a new song. It just makes life brighter, better and more fun! I love the Albert Einstein quote: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." My personal twist on that is that I choose to live as if everything is a creative possibility!  Poems & Photos Inspire WritingNow more than ever, we must take advantage of students’ increasing fascination with graphic images as opposed to written words. This engaging photo prompt series, based on Hank Kellner's book "Reflect and Write: 300 Poems and Photographs to Inspire Writing," capitalizes on this situation by marrying dynamic images to original poems written by students at the junior and senior high school levels, teachers, and other writers nationwide. | 
Inspiring, fostering, encouraging, honoring
and celebrating creativity& the gifts of creative expression! Words & Images Magic Crayon Journal #7 Dear Muse Get It Done Collaging with Cancer #11 2014 Creativity Conference Updated 4/20/14 |
Nurturing Young Imaginations
Individuality and "The Art Spirit" By Abby Connors  One of the most important ways we can nurture creative thinking is to respect each child’s individuality. But when young children seem to be running around in a million different directions, all we want to do is to have them settle down, listen, and keep their hands to themselves. Honoring each one’s individuality is not in the forefront of our minds most of the time. It’s essential, however, because children need to feel respected as individuals to become their most creative selves. Read more »
The Zone The Negative Zone By Tom Evans  You may have heard the adage that it takes something like 43 muscles to frown but only 17 muscles to smile, so we should all smile because it's easier.
Well this is a bit of an urban myth as not everyone uses the same muscles in exactly the same way, or to the same extent, when smiling or frowning. Read more »
Creative ProjectInspire! Create! Wall Art Collage By Maria Chatzi  A step-by-step tutorial for a creative spring collage featuring a pearl bird nest, musical note leaves, and lace tree branches. Read more » |
