Creative Skills 🎨
Speaking
Defining “Creative Skills” and the “Imagination Spark”
Creative skills are how we turn ideas into something new—through art, writing, problem-solving, or humor. The imagination spark is that flicker when you realize, “Hey, I made this!”
Warm-up
- What’s your favorite way to be creative?
- What’s something creative that made you laugh or smile recently?
- Do you prefer structured creativity or total chaos?
Quote to Discuss
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
What Makes Creativity a Skill?
• It’s practice, not magic.
• It grows the more you use it.
Why do you think creativity helps solve everyday problems?
Discussion Questions
- What’s one creative project you’d love to try?
- Can everyone be creative, or is it a special talent?
- What helps you get out of a creative block?
Ripple Effect of Imagination
When someone creates boldly, others feel braver to try too.
Example:
• Event: A friend starts a doodle journal.
• Ripple Effect: You start one too.
How does creative sharing build community?
- How does creativity make life more exciting or fun?
- What’s the difference between “being creative” and “being artistic”?
- Do mistakes sometimes help creativity grow? How?
- How do creative people inspire others to try new things?
- In what ways can you use creativity in your school, work, or home life?
- How can teamwork make a creative idea even better?
- What’s something small but creative you do without even noticing?
Silly Questions
- If creativity was a color, what shade would it be?
- What would “imagination” smell like?
- If ideas had wings, where would they fly first?
- What would happen if your doodles came to life for a day?
- What song would your imagination dance to?
- What kind of hat would a creative person wear to show their ideas?
- If your creativity lived in a house, what would the house look like?
- What would happen if you could paint your dreams on the sky?
- If you had a “creativity switch,” when would you turn it on or off?
- If imagination could talk, what would it say to you right now?
Reflection
What’s one creative thing I can do today?
What did I learn about how creativity connects us?
1. If creativity was a color, what shade would it be?
Creativity would be pink because it is a energetic color.
2. What would “imagination” smell like?
“imagination” would smell like cotton candy because it is sweet and confortable.
3. If ideas had wings, where would they fly first?
Ideas want to be the best and at the top so I think they want to fly to space first.
4. What would happen if your doodles came to life for a day?
If the good things come to life it’s cool, funny but if the bad things come to life it’s not cool.
5. What song would your imagination dance to?
I think my imagination can dance to different songs because the imagination is unplanned.
6. What kind of hat would a creative person wear to show their ideas?
I think creative person would wear a Mexican hat because it is very big and we have a lot of space for ideas.
7. If your creativity lived in a house, what would the house look like?
I think if my creativity lived in a house the house would be messy because I have a lot of ideas at the same times.
8. What would happen if you could paint your dreams on the sky?
I think we wouldn’t be able to see the sun because I have a lot of dreams.
9. If you had a “creativity switch,” when would you turn it on or off?
I would turn off my creativity switch at school.
10. If imagination could talk, what would it say to you right now?
I think my imagination would say to me “Slow down please !!! ” because I overthink all the time.