Creative thinking with day to day objects

What is required to induce creative thinking in children? 

         Just about anything around us can be used to stimulate a child's brain. For instance, soap boxes can be used as building blocks. The child can be asked to make different patterns with the soap boxes.You will be amazed with the different patterns your child can make with nondescript soap boxes!! The very box which otherwise would have found itself in the trash can stands tall in the hands of the young architect!! Call it a skyscraper or a tower; the child takes pride in his /her creation. Please share what your child likes to do with day to day objects.

Letter made with nails or match sticks

Unleash the creativity of your child–Empower them to CREATE toys

An expensive brand new toy arrives in a brand new box. There is twinkle in child’s eye, excitement high in the air. But the novelty and charm lasts only for a couple of days and there after it is sitting in shelf gathering dust. Sounds familiar???

Well, one rainy day, children getting bored indoors and started negotiating  for some TV time.

“How about we make a double decker bus with these empty shoe boxes?” mommy pops the question.

Soon enough, ideas started pouring in. “Let’s make a triple decker bus”. The action starts with a design of the bus and the steps to do written out by Abhinav.

So, two shoe boxes, some old cardboard pieces, poster colours and lots of creativity, look at what we have “CREATED” and happiness of creating and playing with it is priceless. Like the popular Master card Ad – “The cardboard box that came with the Toy – Priceless”. So very true.

Check out the card board house made with very little effort and some scotch tape.  This has been a major entertainer for the last few weeks since its creation, serving as a Dr’s clininc, a kitchen, a grocery store and many more.

Can you imagine the joy and the empowerment a child derives out of “CREATING” something!

Do you have a story to share? Please do send us.

Game design - an art

As we all know, game design is an ancient art. People love to spend lot of time coming up with new games.

On that note, what can be better than encouraging our kids to design their own games? This will give their creative minds an amazing boost and also a sense of satisfaction playing their own designed games. Designing a game will include all the aspects of creativity. Games should be easy to understand but challenging. Answering questions like how many players? What is the winning strategy? What material is required and so on will keep their thinking minds going.


Once I was playing a good old game of Snakes and ladders with my 5 year old and an idea came to my mind. Why not change this game using some ups and downs of our own like – Car tire punctured on the way so loose one turn, Car battery is charged so advance 2 places and so on. We had so much fun coming up with our own ‘ups and Downs’. After that day, he always wants to design his own game and play with it.
Another interesting way to nurture their creativity is designing a crossword puzzle. Take a topic like sports. Help them design a crossword first and then ask your child to come up with ‘Across’ and ‘Down’ clues for that puzzle. Give these clues to another family member to solve that crossword puzzle.
The possibilities are endless and each child can expand his/her creativity in this area.