Thinking Creatively 10 – 12 years

Educators such as Edward de Bono maintain that creative thinking is a skill that can be taught and developed. The activities within Thinking Creatively 10 – 12 years provide children with the opportunity to learn and practise creative thinking skills in interesting and stimulating situations. Challenges range from building a bomb shelter from a school chair, to describing a world where ants are the size of cats. Through the activities, children develop the skills of fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, curiosity, complexity, risk taking and imagination. Thinking Creatively 10 – 12 years is structured in such a way that children can gain confidence and ability in each skill before combining concepts to address creative challenges surrounding the theme of Future Living. Author: David Stephenson