Creative Genius: How to Grow the Seeds of Creativity Within Every Child

Teach creative thinking step-by-step! With Creative Genius students learn and grow their creative thinking skills. It's packed with challenging activities for ages 6-14, covers 9 subject areas, and works for any learning level. It's is not grade-specific and each lesson has extensions that offer many variations of the main activity. Creative Genius is a valuable resource that will last for years!

It's All in One Book!
Lesson Plans - Over 100 original creative thinking lesson plans are clearly organized and easy to follow
Reproducibles - 150 reproducible "picture prompts" of Objects, Creatures and Personalities; Awards for Creative Excellence, and more
Bonus Section - "Creativity: Mysteries Revealed" is a concise guide written in plain language to help you kickstart your kids' creative thinking for life!

Students Learn How To: 

• Create Ideas - how to get, develop, and keep them
• Build Skills - practice thinking fluently and flexibly
• Brainstorm - valuable techniques for young students
• Problem-Solve - when and how to apply divergent and convergent thinking
• Take Risks - test ideas and why failure leads to success
• Be Self-Motivated - advance with enthusiasm and determination
• Find Inspiration - learn the stories of creative role models and their accomplishments

Creative Genius moves students beyond lower-level thinking skills, like fact recall, and stimulates them to make new connections, think beyond the obvious, and find the possible within the impossible. Children who are encouraged to imagine, dream, generate new ideas, and give those ideas form, are motivated learners and become the innovators of tomorrow. Creativity is as important to a student's future as any other educational goal. Creative Genius is the most comprehensive book of its kind. It will save you hours of planning whether you lead a group of gifted students or wish to help students of any learning level to develop their creative potential.