Remember how to play

Here we are at week three of our creativity challenge. This week’s assignment is to get playful. One of the biggest blocks to creativity can be your expectations. Have you ever been disappointed by your final product because it doesn’t match your vision of it? Then your disappointment leads to a creative dry spell? Being playful with no set expectations is the perfect remedy to this.

Here are my tips for remembering how to play:

• Use low-cost supplies. Grab some cheap watercolors and paper from your printer. Then you won’t worry about “wasting” your good supplies.

• Grab a marker and some paper. Create pages of patterns. Try some you always use (dots and circles, anyone?). Then try some new ones. Stuck? Look around you for patterns.

• Put on some music, stand up and let your pen ”dance” on the paper. Use your whole body to move the pen around.

• Pull out the acrylics and paint with your fingers on a piece of cardboard.

• Print out a color page and grab your colored pencils.