Perhaps give the students discarded items (candy wrappers, old magazines, broken toys) to use to create found art!

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Finding your creative spark can be challenging for an adult and it may be even harder for your little reader; which is why these ten lovely pictures books are perfect for helping to foster and develop creativity in children. With close to fifty picture books published, Barney Saltzberg has been traveling the world talking about creativity and where ideas come from.

Most recently Melinda Gates chose Beautiful Oops as one of the top three books every child should read.

Here, a blob of paint with a few strokes becomes a frog, and a balled up piece of garbage becomes the fleece of a lamb! are filled with pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlaps, and smudges—each demonstrating the magical transformation from blunder to wonder. Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world.Barney Saltzberg is the author and illustrator of close to 50 books for children, including Beautiful Oops!

Barney is passionate about working with children, parents, teachers, organizations on the art of making mistakes and finding play and creativity in our everyday lives. The unusual artistic format of doors, windows, and unfolding paper creations will surprise, entertain, and challenge readers to think differently about mistakes. My daughter has been struggling with making mistakes, it’s often the end of the world, but this book shows the opportunities created by little ‘mistakes’. It has lots of brilliant flaps and things that my toddler loves to interact with, for example it shows a bent page corner that has been turned into a penguin, or a rolled up ball of paper that's now a sheep. My students come to me often wanting to redo a project or start their writing over on a new paper because they believe their work has been ruined by a smudge, random mark, or other mistakes.

He has two new releases, Tea With Grandpa and Chengdu Could Not Would Not Fall Asleep coming this spring. the cardboard page is actually torn) "is just the beginning": the beginning of a smile for an alligator. But little kids sometimes have trouble dealing with their mistakes, whether it's a piece of artwork they've torn by accident, or juice they've spilled on their favorite drawing. This is what my almost-three-year-old toddler said about the book after asking me to read and read it again for about fives times in a row!