CREATIVITY: AN ACT OF TURNING NEW AND IMAGINATIVE IDEAS INTO REALITY

Abstract

Human beings cannot create anything new. Creativity, is an action which is novel, exploratory and
venturesome spirit on the part of an individual. Creative children are the asset to the society.
Development and progress in various fields of national life depends on creative children. Our schools
should aim at the development of creative thinking skills among school children to prepare leaders in
different walks of national life. The school should screen creative thinking skills among children and
should provide them all possible facilities for the development of their skills. Creativity means to bring
into existence that which never existed before.
Creativity can be best defined as the capacity or the ability of an individual to create, discover or
produce a new idea or object including the rearrangement of what is already known to him. We can
analyze that there are three trends in creativity that help to develop creative skills among children:
Creativity as a power, as a product and as a process. Divergent thinking ability is one of the most
important creative thinking skill which is to be developed to prepare leaders in different walks of
national and education life.
There are various measures that can be undertaken in order to develop the creative thinking skills
among children: Elaboration, Imagination, Creative expression and arts, Thinking over
consequences, Divergent thinking, Development of confidence, Opportunities to express, Mental
health, Brainstorming.
This type of thinking help students to show their curiosity to know more and more about his
environment, they can take independent judgment in crucial matters and starts thinking independently
about the problem of various types and absorbs themselves in that task . This also helps them to develop
intuition of the problems. It develops their capacity of risk taking and vision for the future problem along
with full confidence.
Keywords: Elaboration, Imagination, Creative expression and arts, Thinking over consequences,
Divergent thinking, Development of confidence, Opportunities to express, Brainstorming