Whilst the term creative can be applied to all these, the word can also apply to other people who are not necessarily into all those things.
A creative person can be a person who creates ways to make the most of their time, a person who creates a lovely home, a person who has a very good imagination and can think up plots, stories, games and activities, or a person who finds lots of ways to use the gifts they have been blessed with[and everyone of use is gifted or has a talent in some way] to help perhaps fund raise or help those less fortunate, or promote an event , to spread awareness about something or to teach their children about life and develop skills so they can grow into well rounded ,selfless, ,environmentally aware and knowledgeable about the world around themthrough the skills they have been taught.
You may think that you are not creative in the slightest. WRONG! Everyone is, it is just a case of drawing out the particular way that you can be. It doesn't have to be in a huge, dramatic gesture kind of creative, it doesn't have to be in big letters painted across the wall , announced from the rooftops sort of way either
How many of you have moved into a flat or house that is 100% the way you want it? How many of you have a spare million pounds lying round to throw at projects or what you want to do? How many of you often find yourself in a waiting room twiddling your thumbs for ages because the doctor/dentist/nurse/ job interviewer is running late?
All these give you opportunites to be creative and it really doesn't cost many pennies. Lots of people even now is the light of discount stores, bargain bins and charity shops, still think it costs a lot and takes ages to do something creative. They are so so wrong! How many minutes would it take to pop into a discount shop like poundland and pick up a couple of glasses for a couple of pound and some nail varnish? Five, fifteen if there is a queue/ Right so that's fifteen minutes out of your day. Add to that say ten to fifteen minutes to dot blobs of nail varnish on the glass. There, half an hour and you have a decorative glass to put a battery operated tealight in, so making a nice, cheap decoration.
How many have loads of buttons in a tin?. Pick up a cheap painting canvas from pound shops or baker ross/the works or sometimes local supermarket. stick the buttons on the canvas to spell a word and there you have it, a new piece of wall art.
Are you regularly having a clearout and going to the local amenity site with stuff you don't want? Before you do, see what not too damaged and do you bit by bringing it to a charity shop. If It is beyond help or redemption, yes. go to the amenity site, but before you come home, pop your head into the section they often have for items that suitable for re use by someone. You can often pick up chairs, tables, dishes, mirrors, lampshades and many more items that you can paint up, and give a new leash of life. And if you are a newbie crafter, its a great place to find bits and pieces as often a more experienced crafter may upgrade their model of sewing machine, printer, or particular craft tool, bringin their old one, that might just need a new plug or new batteries, to the tip. The tip is no longer just for rubbish anymore!
You can be creative with your life too. To keep the 'Im bored! cries from the kids at bay, use that creative brain to think up in advance of the hols, items that you can pick up or collect to keep them entertained and creative. They don't have to cost loads. Pick up cones and leaves when you are out and about as these can be used to be cone animals with the addition of coloure pipe cleaners[ or 'chenille sticks' to give them teir 21st century correct term, though to me they are still pip cleaners,lol!], and googly eyes. A good time to pick up bits and bobs from the likes of Craft shops, The Works, The Range, Hobbycraft or discount shops lie Poundland, BM bargains etcs is about now when the sales are just starting. Get a big box or one of those plastic boxes with lids and go online and scrawl through the arts and crafts section of places like them, or maybe from now till the easter of summer hols, make the decision to pick one one thing for your creative box per week. the when the hols arrive you have lots of different activities that you and/or your kids can do. Here is a list of box contect suggestions :-
Cones Cardboard Egg Boxes Coloured Card
Twigs Paint Pens Flat surfaces pebbles
Plant pots shells wool
simple kids craft kids drawing paper cheap canvasses
Colouring books puzzle books shiny paper
material scraps wooden clothes pegs small cardboard boxes
faux gems air dry clay pipe cleaners
pens and pencils coloured pencils sticker
notebooks feather
Just a few suggestions. You could all be creative together in thinking about what you should put in the creative box. Another way of being creative is by just doing activities together. For a change, don't let your together time just involve watching a programme together on the tv, playing a playstation game or going food shopping. Learn to enjoy going on an adventure in the glens, invent a treasure hunt and invite your friends for a meal then look around for clues to the treasure. Explore more your surrounding, taking in sights and sounds that perhaps you would miss just driving around, set yourself and your family challenges with a small prize when so many have been completed, but a prize like the winner gets to choose where they want to spend a day out or where to have a meal out at.
Think about the way your family life works. Have you got the balance of work/rushing around time and leisure time right. Do you have time just to properly chill with the members of your family and not just doing the shopping together? Do you make time to properly sit down and talk about your week together? If the balance is a little bit off, try sitting down together and thinking up ways to make that little bit more together time. The more imaginative and creative the better as the more it is the more likely it is to keep you doing it!
Creative is not just art, its a way of life!
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