Prioritize creativity in the classroom.
The Creativity Project is an extensive online resource for educators and caregivers endeavoring to make time and space for open-ended art and play experiences that nurture social emotional development, foster essential critical thinking skills, spark innovation, and develop creative confidence in young children.
Art is play, and play is learning.
Find Flow
Flow is different than focus or concentration. There is a joyfulness that comes from being fully immersed in a creative experience. Learn to create an environment where children can deeply engage with materials, problem-solve, test out their own theories, and trust themselves.
Promote Agency
Children know when they are in a space of agency because they feel supported in their choices and safe to be who they are. We’ll show you how to honor the ideas and experiences of each child so they can become confident decision-makers, innovators, and problem solvers.
Practice Flexibility
Shift your perspective about what is possible in working with young children. When educators adopt a more flexible mindset about classroom environment, approaches to materials, and responses to creative experiences, the space becomes a joyful, innovative, inclusive one for all.
WORKSHOPS: Professional Learning Series
A 5-part series of virtual workshops during the 2024-25 school year that explore materials, environments, mindsets, and systems, all rooted in our unique approach to creative learning. We’ll show you that this work is not only possible but essential in any and every setting. Live workshops will be recorded and available with unlimited access.
ONLINE COURSE: Materials Matter
Are you ready to embrace more process-focused creative experiences, see children as capable and full of good ideas, and learn how materials are the path to bringing creativity, innovation, and joy into your classroom? Then it’s time to enroll in Materials Matter!
ART & PLAY GUIDES
Our art and play curriculum guides are designed to be used flexibly with young preschoolers through the primary grades. They center on broad themes that are connected by simple, easy-to-prep and clean-up invitations, extensive picture book guides, as well as academic and social emotional curricular connections. Each guide provides a month's worth of meaningful, creative explorations. Year-long bundles are also available.
SCHOOLS & GROUPS
Are you interested in purchasing our course, workshops, or curriculum guides for your school? We receive feedback every day from educators that our programs integrate easily into any established curriculum. We’re on a mission to support educators and school administrators in honoring the creativity of all learners. Find out more about our Title 1 and bulk rates.
A LOOK INSIDE
Do you want to nurture creative confidence in your classroom? Download our FREE 10-page mini playbook and get a small taste of our Materials Matters course, with 14 open-ended ideas to try.