by Nicky Tillyer | May 2011 | Creativity, perfection
Most parents have had one of those moments where children are facing a blank page, and turn to you and ask “Can you draw me an (insert really difficult thing here) please”. Now you may be one of the 81% of people who wishes they were more creative, or one...
by Nicky Tillyer | Apr 2011 | Creativity, thinking
I have been a proponent of thinking and creativity for a very long time. I can’t remember when I first started reading studies about ideas and thinking and creativity – but it was long before I developed the ARTrox Imagination Station concept. I was...
by Nicky Tillyer | Mar 2011 | Creativity, perfection
When I had the ARTrox Imagination Station most children would come in, and after a little bit of shyness embrace the messy glue, glitters, shapes and punches with gusto. But there were always a few children who really struggled with their work not being...
by Nicky Tillyer | Feb 2011 | Creativity, thinking
Ask a room full of 3 year olds to put up their hands if they are creative and you will get almost all hands waving furiously in the air, sometimes both hands. Ask a room full of 10 year olds, you might get half of them tentatively putting up their hands, with a lucky...
by Nicky Tillyer | Jan 2011 | Creativity, thinking
When I ran the ARTrox Imagination Station I was always amazed at the fantastic ideas that children developed on their own. Children had access to junk modelling, cellotape, glue sticks, glitter, paper punches, patterned and plain scissors and various other scraps and...
