That’s for all you parents out there :-)  As a child, I remember how exciting it was getting all those new school supplies ~ the blank notebooks, unsharpened pencils, an fresh unopened box of crayons, glue ~ yeah, the new clothes was secondary to all that for me.

While there are exceptions, most creatives have usually been creative in some way all along.  So I thought I’d share a few things I recall….

My earliest memory of being creative was when my now-uncle would come visit my aunt when I was about 5 or 6 years old.  He worked at the local paper mill and would bring me a stack of whatever color papers they were making that day.  Sometimes they’d be pastel, sometimes bright, rich hues, but always joyously taken & treasured.  He won my heart long before he won my aunt’s!

Also around that time, my grandmother would gather egg cartons, pipe cleaners, magazines, glue, glitter and what all else I don’t recall, then sit me down on the picnic table out back and let me have at it.

I also remember having a huge box of my mother & aunt’s discarded party dresses, handbags, hats and heels that my friends and I would don and make up all kinds of stories about who we were.  I recall my favorite being an emerald green dress with a big skirt and heels that matched.  I don’t think I let anyone else wear it :-)

When I was about 8 or 9, I had a playroom in the basement.  I used to shave my crayons into a pan and melt them in my Suzy Homemaker oven then drizzle them onto paper, let them dry, add more shavings then put another piece of paper over that and iron them to see what would happen.  My mother is probably lucky I didn’t burn the house down.

And stories, I wrote stories for years.  I’ll even post one this Halloween.

When I got my first car, I used to take a hibachi and a thrift store pan to the beach and make sand candles.  Gosh, I could go on and on with memories of creative things I did, but I need to get busy being creative today!  So tell me, what kind of creative things did you do as a child?

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