Creativity for kids: November 21 and every day with Everyartist.me #creativitymatters

<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b>This post is inspired by Everyartist Live!, a national, collaborative art event with the goal of engaging a million elementary school children on November 21, 2013 - the largest art event in history. Want to get involved? Join the effort to show that creativity matters. Sign up at <a href="http://everyartist.me/" style="text-decoration: none;">http://everyartist.me</a></b></span> </div><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaDSREvufzIH-t5yyhkqZ1PCa7rUohkwkaJ1A-9cY-NG5EKCuZxAB46XNxwEXJyZsF2WwqQc980crQrs5TM9ztVgpTX8ryzTztTo7ryKONUb3wQL9znCwl9A88uuNt-I49mPLTdYsDKp2d/s1600/iStock_000015933195XSmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="On November 21 there will be a huge collaborative art project for kids around the world. Flatten your classroom and join in." border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaDSREvufzIH-t5yyhkqZ1PCa7rUohkwkaJ1A-9cY-NG5EKCuZxAB46XNxwEXJyZsF2WwqQc980crQrs5TM9ztVgpTX8ryzTztTo7ryKONUb3wQL9znCwl9A88uuNt-I49mPLTdYsDKp2d/s320/iStock_000015933195XSmall.jpg" title="creativity for kids join the art project for kids around the world" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">November 21 will mark the largest art project in<br />history (we hope.) Here's how you and your students<br />can join in. </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 23px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.8382352941176471; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity for kids: will it keep kids healthy?</span></div></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recently, I came across a book that listed the “12 apostles of ill health.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">¹</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I was stunned to see that one was “a lack of creativity.” How can lack of creativity lead to ill health? Is this true?</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think for a moment… it seems like the faster the arts and music have been removed from schools, the higher the drop out rate has escalated. Students are disenchanted and disengaged as they've had paint brushes replaced by pencils as they figure math problems instead of drawing figures on a page.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Kids need to be creative. Join the largest art experience in history at everyartist.me." height="264px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_Qyjj46aQBJYEGefH6opY8KJuusQLUjEdPzEAX8e4gAmJ2XepKtlrXSTQYW9VOUJSYaSZlDEzekXO8SBb3WC1KvWYf_iscBRQCVaUXD3NrKasoGX0R4dvSIj" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="creativity for kids: Join Everyartist live on November 21, 2013" width="454px;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Join the <a href="http://www.everyartist.me/" target="_blank">largest art project in history </a>on November 21.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Certainly our students need to learn math, science, and all of these other things. However, I would argue if each of us has things that we are made to do and those things are pulled from us, then we will pull away from the thing that pulls us away from what we love. Kids are creative and they need it in the classroom.</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div></b></h1><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 0.8382352941176471; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Genius Fridays and Raven</span></h2><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have a beautiful student, lets call her Raven. Raven is gifted beyond measure and creates drawings that can make your eyes mist. That kind of talent. Most Fridays we have genius day and Raven has chosen to draw. She’s learned about apps that let her draw and has photographed her work and opened up a personal gallery on a website for artists.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She glows on Fridays and says to me,</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It is like I can bring all of me to school… I don’t have to leave a piece of me at home.”</span></blockquote></div></b></h1><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 0.8382352941176471; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you want a piece of me?</span></h2><h1 dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We don’t want one piece of a child… the part that does math or the part that writes paragraphs. We want the whole child. The child that decides what to eat and how to exercise and especially the part that creates.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.425; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I think of the impact of personal interest projects on math and science, I think of the </span><a href="http://www.eastinitiative.org/" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.425; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EAST initiative</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.425; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Arkansas. This program uses technology to help students pursue personal interest projects.</span><a href="http://setda.org/web/TAPP/states/Arkansas" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.425; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In research</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="line-height: 1.425; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.727272033691406px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; white-space: pre-wrap;">they've</span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="line-height: 1.425; white-space: pre-wrap;"> discovered a positive impact on student motivation and self directed learning styles. Why?</span></span></span></span><br /><div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.425;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div></div><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maybe it is because kids are able to bring themselves to school, not just a piece. They are solving problems creatively.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.15;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are made to create. It is part of the human DNA. We are also made to collaborate. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>(I write a lot about<a href="http://www.flatclassbook.com/" target="_blank"> flattening the classroom</a>, this is yet another way to do that.)</i></span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxk6ykH381f-l1pBLM2jzRM8loU0RHVp325Xb6PFE928sI5cWBPIYwoEN1zt6IqAiZw06J2Okz5bzDA7eX-80MmWYIOS2TP9xnEk-3odsqIsp9xyY7Mj0knY2ZqHAWC2ptk261ThzHA0f/s1600/every-artist-me-creativity-matters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxk6ykH381f-l1pBLM2jzRM8loU0RHVp325Xb6PFE928sI5cWBPIYwoEN1zt6IqAiZw06J2Okz5bzDA7eX-80MmWYIOS2TP9xnEk-3odsqIsp9xyY7Mj0knY2ZqHAWC2ptk261ThzHA0f/s1600/every-artist-me-creativity-matters.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></h1><h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let's help kids join a massive world wide elementary art event</span></h2><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m writing this post because </span><a href="http://everyartist.me/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Everyartist Live!</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> contacted me about their</span><a href="http://everyartist.me/#culture" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> world wide elementary art event</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on November 21, 2013. Admittedly, I have many companies who contact me to write posts for them - some sponsored, some not. The only posts I accept as sponsored posts are those I’d write about anyway for topics that I think are important to those of you who gift me with your eyes and attention several times a week.</span></span></div></b></h1><h2><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Join Everyartist Live! in their mission to spark creativity Here’s how:</span></h2><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://everyartist.me/">Everyartist.me</a> is sponsoring a program to let elementary students around the world participate and join in the collaborative event. While the focus is on the US, anyone can join in and many have already registered.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Read about </span><a href="http://everyartist.me/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">everyartist.me</span></a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Sign up at </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://signup.everyartist.me/" style="text-decoration: none;">https://signup.everyartist.me/</a></span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.425; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.425; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark your calendar and check your email for more information on this project. And remember, whatever you do, inspire creativity in your classroom. </span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.425; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.425; white-space: pre-wrap;">I believe every child should be creating something original each week.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.425; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We need creativity to bloom. We must make time for this generation to create. This is one way and I hope you’ll join in!</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><hr /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored post.” The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to write it. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s </span><a href="http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_03/16cfr255_03.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">16 CFR, Part 255</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”</span></span></span></h1><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">Footnotes</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1855d33c-70f2-5226-8602-280256b86ef1"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 - E Stanley Jones as quoted in “Ordering Your Private World” by George McDonald</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">All photos licensed from iStockphoto except for the Everyartist Live! 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