Creativity In Everyday Life

Creativity is important in everyday life. It can be used to describe an attitude, a process, a product, a skill, a set of personality traits, and a set of environmental conditions. Everyone is born with the potential to be creative. There are different ways to help enhance creativity at different stages throughout life. It is said that the peak of creativity happens during the early childhood year around the age of 4. Research shows a drop in a child’s creativity when starting elementary school. Adults play a very important role in helping children and adolescence enhance their creativity. Interviewing a daycare provider, high school teacher, and a local art studio allowed me to view different types of creativity within different environments and age groups.

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When speaking with Kendra Dupre she explained that they don’t follow any specific curriculum. They adjust their teaching based on the child since the ages range from 4 years old and up. Younger children often focus more on the process of creating art. Adolescence and adults usually emphasize more on the finish product. Brushwork’s teaches different techniques in creating pieces of art. They encourage the children to express their emotions through their art by tapping into their imaginations. Teachers in the studio give a variety of materials to allow the children to pick freely on what they want to use. This helps the children be more engaged in the creative process. Art is a great way to express creativity because there is no right or wrong answers, Kendra expressed her concerns with today’s technology and video games taking away from their imaginations of creating something new. Technology today is unavoidable, but finding balance in allowing children to use technology and attend classes like this art class is key to preserving and further developing kid’s