Bring out your inner child!

Tips by Artella on how to get wild at home and bring out your inner child!! 10 Ways to Cultivate Creativity (#5, #8 and #10 are my favorite):


1. Color. Buy crayons and a coloring book, and purposefully, intentionally, color outside the lines. Scribble, break the crayons in half, smash them into the page.


2. Spend some time thinking about what you loved as a child. What colors, clothes, games, toys, activities, dreams do you enjoy? Which are currently in your life? Make a plan to rekindle some of your childhood loves in your daily life, today.


3. Create with your body. Take a break from the gym and work out at a local playground. Playing hopscotch, pumping legs on the swings and climbing jungle gyms aren't just for kids!


4. Draw your goal. Grab some crayons, markers or colored pencils. Imagine a goal that you'd like to meet, and draw a picture of what it will look like when you've reached this goal. This isn't about drawing skills- it's about representing a vision in a fun and uninhibited way.


5. Make a set of "trading cards." Cut out images that you love from catalogs, magazines or greeting cards. Focus on images that make you feel full, alive and truly happy. Glue these images, collage-style, to an old deck of playing cards. This is a project you can work on a little bit at a time until you have a whole deck of cards that inspire you to dream big and live your fullest life!


6. Redecorate, kid-style. Walk through your living space and find areas- even small ones- that could use some Wild Child whimsy. Maybe a children's book belongs with the serious coffee table books.


7. Imagine new pictures. Find an image from a magazine and tear it out. Place it on a flat surface and turn it upside down. Try to find an image, activity or story in the lines and spaces of the upside-down image. If you're having trouble seeing anything, ask, "If I were a child, what might I see in this picture?"

8. Write your to-do list on poster boards taped to a wall. Write with markers, and with your non-dominant hand (or put the marker in your fist and make broad, childlike strokes). On one poster, write a list of things you need to DO. On the other, write a list of things you dream to BE.

9. Find a board or card game from your childhood and change the rules. What if CLUE became a game about decorating rooms in Fun House style? What if Twister was a massive canvas for art? If possible, alter the actual game board and pieces to celebrate your rebellion against the rules.

10. Go on a nature walk with child's eyes. Challenge yourself to make each of your senses more open and aware, in the way that a child takes in the world. Gather interesting leaves, rocks or little flowers. Bring them home and arrange them to create your own little nature shrine.