Creative Play Newsletter – Breaking Out of the January Rut with Creativity
The holiday rush is over and it’s back to business-as-usual. Am I the only one who finds it hard to get moving in January without the adrenaline-fueled To Do list of December? I’ve tried motivating with a crop of New Year’s Resolutions, but those never last long. Now instead, I …
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Finding Joy in December: Embrace Creativity Amidst Chaos
December has always felt like a whirlwind to me—a time filled with holiday gatherings, year-end commitments, and the sense that there’s always just one more thing to do. For years, my approach was to push through, head down, determined to handle it all. But I’ve realized that this often left …
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Creative Play Newsletter – Make Time for Creativity
One of the biggest struggles that I have is in making time for my creative work. I have it last on my to-do list and either I crawl into bed having not made it to the end of the list or I am so exhausted at the end of the …
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Act – Relive a Memory
Exercise #4 in Stage Three – Play What was something you remembered doing as a kid? Try it again. If you have kids, raid the toy box for toys you loved playing with when you were young. Fashion Plates™ still exist. (I know because I just ordered some, ostensibly for …
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Create – Make Dots
Exercise #3 in Stage Three – Play You may have no memory of the joy of finger painting, of what it felt like as a kid to plunge your fingers into paint and to experiment with mixing colors, with moving paint around on a page, but your body remembers. Locked …
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Explore – What Do You Love?
Exercise #2 in Stage Three – Play For this exercise, start a list of the media that may interest you on your creativity journey. First, go back to the notes you took on your childhood creativity in the last exercise. What media did you love most as a kid? Did …
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Imagine – Remembering Your Childhood Creativity
Exercise #1 in Stage Three – Play How did you play as a kid? Most likely if you are reading this book you engaged in some form of creative play as a child. Your play profile is probably that of the “Artist” and you found joy in making things. Think …
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Learning to Play Along Your Creativity Journey – Stage 3
As children, our creativity flows effortlessly from us. We have not yet learned to question ourselves. We don’t yet hear the negative voices and see no distinction between our created selves and our authentic selves; there is no artifice yet. For this reason, a vital step in your creativity journey …
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Marbling Mom Camp
Six weeks ago when it looked like there would be no camp this summer, I started planning art activities and buying supplies for “Mom Camp” to keep my eight year old busy. I placed a big order with Dharma Trading Company that included a marbling kit because, yes, it was …
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Creative Play Newsletter – COVID Block
I have heard from so many fellow artists that they are having trouble creating right now. And, it’s no wonder since every single one of us is under stress unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before. At the same time, many of us feel like we should be producing a lot …
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