Encouraging Creativity in Children
All children are born with the potential to be creative. However, their potential can be stifled if we do not take the care to stimulate and nurture that creativity. Our creativity shows who we are as a unique individual. Have you heard the saying – "there is no such thing as can’t." We can and we will! Creativity is an important facet to any personality. It enables to see things in a different and unusual way. This is an important problem-solving skill throughout anyone’s lifetime – the ability to think of different alternatives to solve a problem. Or to see problems other may not have noticed and come up with effective solutions to those problems.

What is Creativity?
Creativity is originality, expressiveness, imaginative, to give rise to, to produce, to portray, to give character to, to evolve from one’s own thoughts, to bring into being, to conceive, to parent, to throw together, to give rise to.

There are many different aspects to creativity. It is basically the ability to produce new and useful ideas from everyday objects, and solutions to everyday problems and challenges. It is a translation of gifts and visions to produce something new and useful.

There is no one agreed definition of creativity. Creativity is mainly researched within the field of psychology. In this, it is usually claimed that being creative means being appropriate and novel.

So what are the personality traits of highly creative individuals?

Personality traits of Highly Creative Individuals

Creative individuals will be able to look at every day and familiar things in a new light. They will be able to see things that are out of the ordinary, not obvious.
A highly creative individual will –

1. Produce a wide range of ideas or solutions to problems and questions. Often, they will be unusual or clever.
2. They will show a lot of curiosity about things, constantly asking questions.
3. They will have interests in many different, unrelated areas.
4. They may develop collections of things based on their interests.
5. They may be willing to take risks.
6. May show heightened emotional sensitivity, for example, being particularly sensitive to beauty.
7. Often, they are willing to express their opinions without inhibition.
8. They will be tenacious and persistent about their ideas and projects.
9. Can often be conceived as non-conformist.
10. They may appear chaotic or disordered.
11. They may not seem to be interested in detail.
12. They do not fear being labeled as "different".
13. May be unwilling to accept authoritarian pronouncements without detailed explanations of why the pronouncement is correct.
14. Be open to constructive criticism.
15. They will often have a good sense of humour and see humour in situations that may not be obvious to others.
16. Highly creative individuals will often show intellectual play, often daydreaming or imagining. They may come out with new ideas, then are able to modify or improve on their ideas or the ideas of others.

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