Author Spotlight
Imaginary Being Chris Dunmire
Creativity Inspiring Interviews, Prompts, Projects, and Printables
Chris Dunmire is a highly engaged creative spirit, aspirant of wit, words, and wisdom, and the founder of the award-winning Creativity Portal™ Web site. She's trained as a creativity coach for artists and writers with Eric Maisel, PhD, and Kaizen-Muse™ founder Jill Badonsky, MEd. Read more about Chris' work and projects in Creativity Portal's About section.
Books and Printables
Printable Joke Word Search Puzzles
Creative find-a-word puzzles for words that will never be found. Great for April Fools' day in the classroom or any day elsewhere.
Origami Money Plant Project with Seed Packet
Dollar bill folding fun for everyone! Learn how to create Chris' original 'Cashius monetarius' Money Plant as featured in Harry Choron's book Money: Everything You Never Knew About Your Favorite Thing to Find, Save, Spend, and Covet.
Halloween Tricks & Treats for Teachers
A celebratory assortment of playful projects, ponderable puzzles, and printable pranks to use in the classroom to inspire creative thinking, art, and writing during the holiday season.
Tree-mendous Memory! Game
A memory-boosting project and playful way to exercise your memory! Papercraft fun and memory-strengthening game.
Writing Prompts, Generators, and Tools
365 Pictures
A collaborative photo prompt project to inspire you and your writing 365 days a year.
Imagination Prompt Generator
Push-button writing prompts.
Writing Prompts: Fortune Cookie Messages
A guide to creating your own clever fortunes (or misfortunes).
Old West Writing Prompts: Bird Cage Theater, Tombstone, Arizona
Take an imaginative time travel tour to the sights, sounds, smells, and experiences of this historic entertainment spot with these writing prompts from the 1800s.
Creativity: People, Places, and Spaces
A Conversation with 'Mind Work' Author Peter Clothier
Peter Clothier is a long time observer of the contemporary art world, and a widely published writer.
Interview with 'Lost in Space' Actress Angela Cartwright
Angela Cartwright, the dark-haired girl who played Penny Robinson on Lost in Space (the alien-monkey pet-toting teen) is definitely one child star who hasn't gone bad.
Community Theater: 'An Outlet for Creative Things'
An Inside Look at Freeport's Winneshiek Players; The Allure of Historic Buildings in Community Theater.
The Four Steps of Creativity
How we all move through the four major stages of the creative process: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, and Implementation in creating and problem-solving.
True Joy: A Tribute to Joy Sikorski (1952-2009)
In 2004, best-selling author Joy Sikorski gifted me the opportunity to interview her about her life as an artist and author and shared some of her whimsical drawing lessons from her books.
Inspiration vs. Perspiration: A Light Bulb Moment on Edison's Creative Genius
Shedding light on cross-generation collaboration through Thomas Edison's innovations.
A Journey through SARK's 'Make Your Creative Dreams Real'
Questions for reflection on resiliance, nurturing, fear, self-acceptance, and committment.A Quest through Eric Maisel's 'The Van Gogh Blues'
Creativity coaching questions for reflection for the ‘Creative Person's Path through Depression’.An Exploration through Gail McMeekin's 'The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women'
Creativity coaching questions for reflection for the 'Portable Mentor' with three gateways.'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' and 'Bird in Space'
Appreciating the visual elements and principles of design in Georges Seurat's and Constantin Brancusi's iconic artworks.
Beginner's Wheel-Thrown Pottery: Tips from a Clay Novice
Plus: The 6-Day Pottery Class Experiment.
More with Chris Dunmire
Chris Dunmire the founder of the award-winning Creativity Portal™ Web site. ...
Old West Writing Prompts: Bird Cage Theater
Tribute to Joy Sikorski
'Cashius monetarius' Origami Money Plant
Maisel's 'Van Gogh Blues'
McMeekin's 'Secrets of Highly Creative Women'
Edison's Creative Genius
Imagination Prompt Generator
Fortune Cookie Messages
Collage Art Primers
Seurat and Brancusi
Pottery Class Experiment
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