The Creativity Process: Guide Your Child Through It Is creativity something one must work at or is it latent until something puts its’ wheels in motion? Actually, it’s a bit of both. Although creativity is an abstract thing that you can’t hold in your hand, there are methods that you can use to help your child get it.

Your youngster will need to be creative in many areas of life. Some are
school, (so they can write vibrantly and intelligently), in their social lives, (so they can adapt to the various personalities they will encounter) and in problem solving (so they can see all sides of a problem and find the best solution to it.)

Here are some strategies to help guide your child through the creativity process.

1) Identify the problem.

2) Have your child write a list titled “Why Is This A Problem” and then another list to complement the first list titled “Why Might This Be?”

3) Have your child brainstorm a list of possible ideas to deal with the problem.

4) Create with your youngster a list of achievable ways of dealing with the issue. 5) Inform your child that there is not set way to be creative. There is a multitude of ways that something can be done. Encourage them not to settle for the expected.

During the creativity process your child may hit a stumbling block. When they become tapped out of ideas and can’t solve the problem, they may need to try something else entirely.