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Encouraging Creativity in Your Children Creativity is not so much an inborn quality as it is a learned skill – it is not true that some children are more or less creative than others or more or less capable in creative fields than others, it is very much something that can and should be taught and encouraged. This is because creativity is actually essential in… Read More
Let’s get a piece of paper and draw 30 circles on it. Try adapting as many circles as possible into any objects (i.e. one of the circles can be a plate.) in three minutes. Remember – the goal is quantity but not quality. Time’s up! How many objects can you come up with? 10? 20? This is a creativity exercise called the 30 Circles Test developed by… Read More
Do you consider yourself a creative person? Since a young age, I have always considered myself a person that lacks creativity. When I was in primary school, the thing I dreaded most was writing stories. Every time my English teacher asked me to write a story, I could never come up with the wild ideas that my friends came up with, and all of my stories were exceptionally… Read More
Celebrating Books It’s World Book Day tomorrow! Well, in fact, it’s only World Book Day in the UK and Ireland, where they celebrate the day a little earlier than everyone else. The international World Book Day is on 23rd April. However, in the UK, that often falls during the Easter holidays. Schools in England get so excited about World Book Day that they don’t want… Read More
Did you all have a good time celebrating the fantastic Chinese New Year? To the majority of the working population nowadays, the origin of the CNY is probably one of the most obscure traditions about the Chinese culture and the utmost importance of the CNY should be that they have a short break to get away from the tedious routine of work. When I was… Read More
