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Just like you teach a child to ride a bicycle, read a book, or play a musical instrument, you can teach your child how to be creative. It's a skill. Like any skill, there are a variety of tools that have to be mastered. But when you have the tools, you can turn your creativity on. The earlier your child starts, the more competent she will become.

• Find out how a cartoonist like Gary Larson and an inventor like Benjamin Franklin think alike
• Construct a creativity wheel
• Discover how to turn on your creativity with second right answers
• Learn how to use a creativity wallet just like Leonardo da Vinci (a pretty creative guy)
• Play with the blender technique to come up with something that never existed before

Using cartooning as a tool, Jim shows you how to increase creativity. Cartooning appeals to many children and introduces hands-on training in coming up with imaginative ideas. The principles for coming up with a good cartoon are the same principles used by scientists, managers, film-makers, inventors, writers, entrepreneurs and anyone else who benefits from thinking different.

While art techniques are taught, the primary focus of the class is hands-on experience with specific creativity skills.

Jim's Creativity Background:

Jim has sold cartoons to such publications as the San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area Parent News Magazine, Western Winds, COMDEX, Sources, Blackbelt Magazine, and SKI . He illustrated four books: Edible and Poisonous Plants of Northern California, Goal Express!, No More Nagging, Nit-picking, & Nudging, and Memory Smart. Jim has also used the creativity principles taught in this class in research environments, as a professional speaker, and in the businesses he owns. Creativity and Cartooning is also offered at the college level.