Top 12 Creative Toys For Christmas 2008

Christmas and creativity go hand in hand. We spend a lot of time during the holidays being creative - baking cookies and treats, decorating our homes and yards and thinking of just the right gift for loved ones. There is no more creative season than Christmas. But creativity is good all year round. Kids love to be creative and should be. Creativity helps them learn and grow. Did you know there are toys you can give to the children in your life that will help them be creative? Here is a list of the top 12 creative toys for Christmas 2008:

Alex Best Friends Bands Friendship Bracelet Kit

Kids of both genders are wearing friendship bracelets. They've become a fashion statement and are fun to wear alone, or as a colorful group of several. Your youngster will have fun creating friendship bracelets for him or herself and for friends and family.

Guidecraft Wooden Blocks

Although often thought of as a preschool toy, wooden blocks are fun for older kids too. Create castles and towns, skyscrapers and houses, roads and paths with Guidecraft Wooden Blocks. They come in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors and give hours of creative enjoyment.

Legos

Legos, after being around for what seems like a hundred years, are still fun for kids of every age, and adults too. Younger children will enjoy creating with larger Lego blocks, and older children will have fun creating everything from battleships to cottages with yards with smaller Lego blocks.

Beka Double-Sided Easel and Supplies Combo

This creativity toy has everything a budding artist needs to create wonderful works of art. The easel is adjustable, so it grows with your child. The combo comes with marker and chalkboard surfaces, dry erase markers, chalk, paper holder and more.

Etch-A-Sketch

This classic creativity toy provides hours of fun to kids of just about any age. A wonderful quiet time creative activity, Etch-A-Sketch is perfect for the car, but is just as fun for an any-day art session. Make sketches that are simple or complex.

Melissa and Doug Wooden Bead Set

There are actually several different wooden bead sets in the Melissa and Doug series, so you can choose which your child will enjoy most. These kits are great for creating colorful jewelry and art objects.

Smart Lab Motor Mania Kit

Creative kids who are fascinated with how things work will love the Smart Lab Motor Mania Kit. The kit includes 46 parts that can be combined to build ten different motorized projects such as a car, a tram, a drink stirrer, a crane, a conveyor and more. Kids who like gadgets will have fun with this one.

Puzzibits

Puzzibits are flexible 3-D puzzle art kits that are part construction and part puzzle. Kids can create all sorts of things with Puzzibits - animals, theme puzzles (pirates or princesses, anyone?), and other fun things. Parents have fun working with Puzzibits, too.

Reeve and Jones Splash Art

Great for younger artists, Reeve and Jones Splash Art is a double-sided drawing surface that uses a water pen to help little artists create magic. This is a wonderful quiet time art activity for toddling artists.

Works of Ahhh Box Kits

Kids create their own keepsake or safe boxes with these wooden box kits. Comes with acrylic paints, felt liner, stencils and everything else needed to create a beautiful and useful place to keep one's treasures.

Growing Tree Large Tie Dye Kit

Kids can make up to fifteen groovy tie-dye shirts with this kit. It comes with dye, gloves and easy to follow instructions. Kids love to wear cool, colorful clothes. This is right up an artistic child's alley.

Kids Step Stone Kit

Kids can create a garden treasure in 3 simple steps. The Kids Step Stone Kit has everything needed to personalize and decorate a garden step stone that will last virtually forever. The step stones can be given as gifts to grandparents or other favorite people, or they can be placed in your own garden as a reminder of your child's creative spirit.

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Play With Your Creative Self

The creative urge lives within us all. It rumbles and bubbles up often like an underwater spring feed stream. When we say YES to the impulse the urge to do something with it, we have already taken the first step in play with our creative self. That my friend is the first practice in becoming more creative and probably the one most overlooked or under valued. The response is to say yes to the urge and watch what happens.

Help your creativity flow by watching and listening for your internal bubbles of brilliance and say yes to keep it flowing.

There is no perfect or magic formula and there are ways to practice. In the spirit of offering you ways to become more in tune with your creative rumbles and be in action around your creativity here are five playful practices to move you closer to your YES.

Set aside time each day to tap into your creative self. Yes, it sort of seems counter intuitive that you would have to schedule creativity time and you do. So mark your calendar and set aside creativity time for yourself each day to make sure that it happens. Write, dream, bake a cake, build a snowman, draw a picture just start somewhere, and tap into the place inside of you that wants to make something new.

Give yourself permission to make a mess and screw up. Oh how many artists could attest to this one? Creativity is messy. Let go of your inner critic and make room for not getting it right. Whatever right is?

Give yourself over to the process. Your inner muse wants to have fun. Let the dance of creativity start and stop and begin again sometime incorporating the mess and sometimes with a new page. There is no perfect answer...just keep trusting your daring spirit inside of you.

Follow YOUR natural instinct to create and play. This often means that you have to tune the outside world out. We can get stuck trying to do the proper thing and follow the guidelines of the outside world and we end up trying too hard to fit in and create some one else's way. This leads to more of the same old same old, how boring. With this sort of response going on we can start to feel tired and bored. Colour outside of the Lines!!

LISTEN to the small nudges that your creative self gives you and respond with a YES. We all have those little nudges and we can tend to dismiss them and not listen or respond. Our inner creativity goddess is always offering up suggestions to how she would like to be in your world.

So when she shows up with a silly idea (who are you to judge) go with it!! Like yesterday when it was minus 40 with the wind chill factor my creative muse said GO BOWLING! I know that she knows how much I crave to be physically active. What a brilliant and fun solution to what the weather was offering me.

LET go of any expectations. This practice makes space for having to get it right. Give that up before you start and see where the process takes you. More importantly tap into your feelings along the way. Are you engaged? Are you having fun? Has time sort of stood still? Is there a smile on your face? Is your body relaxed and enjoying itself too! Is your breathing deep and relaxed? All these are great signs that you have said yes to the process and not to any rigid expectations.

When you fall in love with your own creativity and creativity process the world falls in love with you. YES!

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