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January is International Creativity Month

Think outside of the box and infuse your lessons with creativity. Find resources to help you include more creativity in your teaching and encourage your students to take creative risks. 

Grades K-12

Twitter Chat: Inspire Ingenuity and Creativity in Your Classroom

View this archive of a recent Twitter chat that explores the role of ingenuity and creativity in education and shares resources and digital tools that can help you manage the creative process in your classroom.

Grades K-12

TeachersFirst's Makerspace Resources

This curated collection features some of TeachersFirst's best resources for creating your Makerspace, a great way to engage, challenge, and encourage creative thinking among your students.

Grades K-12

International Dot Day

International Dot Day is a day set aside to rekindle and inspire the power of creativity in all of us. Although it's celebrated in September, it's never too early to plan or find new, creative activities to try now.

Grades 1-12

Creative Educator

Discover articles, lesson plans, and resources that explore ways to put creativity into the curriculum. Topics include creativity, digital storytelling, 21st century classrooms, project-based learning, literacy, STEAM/STEM, and more.

Resources that Encourage Students to Create

Add a splash of creativity to your lessons when you share these tools with your students. Find interactive games to build creativity and several tools to help students generate original projects. 

Grades 4-12

Meme Buddy

Produce memes using your computer or mobile device with this tool that will build a meme using your instructions for what image and text to add. Challenge students to create memes related to stories, science concepts, or topics in social studies.

Grades K-12

Bitmoji

Build a custom emoji with Bitmoji, available as an Android and Apple app or as a Chrome extension. Choose from many options to share your creation during writing, within your favorite game, or on your website.

Grades 6-12

PosterMaker

Design posters, flyers, memes, and more without registration! Use the tools from this site to design borders, backgrounds, frames, and more. When finished students can save in several different formats including JPG, PNG, and PDF.

Grades 8-12

@Stake

Build creativity and empathy through small group deliberations with this game for 3-5 players. The game consists of three rounds of discussion and debate and ends when the group chooses the best idea presented.

Celebrate Your Students' Hobbies

January is also National Hobby Month. Share the resources in this section to encourage students to explore hobbies like photography, drawing, painting, and cooking. 

Grades 8-12

Creator Academy

Calling all YouTubers! This resource offers free online courses in video production and content creation designed to maximize YouTube success. Share this resource with your creators.

Grades K-5

I Am An Artist

Your young artists will delight in this site! The six strands of visual art included in this tool are paint and color, clay, fabric and fiber, drawing, construction, and print. Click on a strand to view short videos (about six minutes long) and slides.

Grades K-12

PhotoCat

For those students who enjoy photography, share this free online photo editing service. Students can edit and retouch images easily and make photo collages in just a few simple steps. Don't miss the special effects, retouching tools, frames, and text.

Grades K-6

Nourish Interactive

Help your bakers and chefs find new inspiration with this web tool offering nutrition tips, tools, and interactives. Try the activities for topics including food groups, balanced meals, the food pyramid, healthy messages, and nutrition word games.

This Week at TeachersFirst

We welcome you to attend one of our upcoming OK2Ask® virtual workshops. We are also sharing a blog post related to creativity with emojis in the classroom and kindly ask for your input in our weekly poll about your students' favorite hobbies.