Teach me creativity. Or not.

The 1^st week of this new semester has been crazy, partly because we have only half the time but double the workload and also partly because we know the midterm will be 3 weeks away and finals another 4, so we tried to cramp all the fun like watching movies, going on food excursions, and doing random crazy stuff into this 1^st week to make up for the next 7 fun deprived week. I have no idea whether I am more exhausted from trying to get used to the new time table and new routine, or am I more exhausted from throwing myself head first into anything that sounds fun that comes my way.

quot;MsoNormal">In our Cyberpreneurship class, in her effort to ‘teach’ us about creativity, the lecturer talked about the fact that how kids tend to be more creative than the adults. How they can see things that we adults can no longer see. She was saying that the arts created by kids often surprise the adults and have them go, “wow, how did I manage to miss that!”, I immediately thought of this project created by Mary – a mother of 2 beautiful little girls. The project is called Kidmade and basically, it’s a place for the kids to showcase their creativity. Every month, Mary will set an artistic challenge and have the readers of the blog which are mainly parents, to submit the work of their kids.

That is a picture collage of the entries submitted for one of the challenge. By kids from 3 to 12.

And this one by the 4 year old Livie, impresses me the most. 

I can never come up with anything that creative. Not even close. And I don’t think creativity can be thought in class contrary to what my lecturer believes. It’s either you are creative or you are not. Because, well, god knows I have not a single business plan to contribute to my group and that I have been trying to come up with a poster for a competition regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for the past week and my efforts are to no avail. 3 weeks away from the deadline. I’ve lost all hope. 

Mayyie xxx

Pictures credit: Kidmade and to find out more about this amazing project, go to http://kidmade.typepad.com/kidmade