A study by a research group at the Max Planck Institute examined how children employ creativity when faced with novel tasks. The researchers found that children’s broad attention focus allows them to ...

Children who create imaginary parallel worlds known as paracosms, alone or with friends, are more found more commonly than previously believed, according to a new study. Children who create imaginary ...

Crayola spoke to Idaho Today about this star-powered lineup to foster creative thinkers.

Encouraging children to use gestures as they think can help them come up with more creative ideas, according to new research. Encouraging children to use gestures as they think can help them come up ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. The show exemplifies what years of child psychology research have made clear: that children learn through play. Bluey illustrates a variety ...

Our children soak in this dry, colorless landscape like small sponges. But sometimes disconnecting is all you need to reset your creative juices. When we travel, our kids see us making creativity a ...

A UW-led team held six sessions with a group of 12 Seattle-area kids ages seven to 13 to explore how the kids’ creative processes interacted with AI tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E. Here, one of the ...

Catherine Rogers Jonsson Leads California Art Therapy Workshops for Educators, Mental Health Providers Lidköping, Sweden Sept.20,2008 -- Catherine Rogers Jonsson (MFA, MA, ATR) offers three workshops ...

Ben Brown was riding in the back seat of a car in Falls Church, Virginia, this summer when he recognized the tune on the radio. “I thought, ‘That’s my song!'” says Ben, who’s almost 8 years old. “I ...

In 2005 Richard Louv published a groundbreaking book–Last Child in the Woods. He presented overwhelming proof of the increasing divide between children and the natural world. In many cases, according ...

Young students love trying on adult identities, from police officer to scientist to rock star. But helping children understand the many roles they already play may improve their creativity and problem ...

Creativity is a team sport. Somehow children know how to play it, but they lose that capability as they grow up. Here is why. For a team to be creative, members must get along. This cannot be forced ...