To nurture these different abilities that fuel creativity

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It helps to foster a creative environment at home, where children feel comfortable exploring and expressing their creativity. As a parent, it's good to be a role model by engaging in creative endeavors. When you find genuine pleasure in exploration, you convey that to your children. By discussing art, music and literature in the home, these become values.

Create Space. Creativity blossoms when given space and tools. That may be physical space and tools for exploration (from instruments to sketchbooks to computers), or it may be mental space, encouraging your child to explore ideas, experiment with different media and feel secure in the idea of being different. Natural light, physical space and a positive, pleasant atmosphere help stimulate creativity, as can a change in surroundings. When we're trying to brainstorm creative approaches, we need to suspend the critical or judgmental mind and find joy in investigations, original approaches or innovation.
Allow Time. Creativity also needs time to develop. If there's one phone number data answer and children have to make a beeline to find it in time, they aren't going to spend the time in creative exploration. By returning to an unfinished project, a child can layer in their perspective the next day and take their project in a new direction or further develop the direction they're going. Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling suggested that the scientific creative process is about coming up with ideas and then discarding the useless ones. Creativity often involves some sort of insight that leads a person to pursue a path, even though it may be ambiguous and take time to explore.
Offer Choices. Creativity is as much about the creative process as it is about the end result. By giving kids choices about how they want to accomplish tasks and which tasks they want to accomplish, they start to develop a creative style of their own, which is empowering. Overly competitive environments, where there is one right answer and only one way to get there can discourage creativity by discouraging experimentation. Creative environments allow children to challenge assumptions. Children feel safe in expressing who they are and how they feel. There's an opportunity for adventure when children express what's going on in their inner world in relation to their outer world.
Measuring Creativity

Creativity can be found in almost any field. It's generally characterized by innovation and invention and is often associated with the arts. People link it with "right-brain" thinking, lateral thinking or multi-dimensional thinking.

Unlike IQ (Intelligence Quotient), there isn't a standard test for creativity. This is partially due to the fact that the tester's interpretation of what's creative comes into play, making it difficult to come up with a standardized measure. There are a number of tests that measure originality of ideas, level of detail and the number of ideas proposed during a test. However, there isn't one recognized standard for the measurement of creativity.

In Japan, tests designed to measure creativity assess problem-solving ability and the ability to recognize problems. Other tests measure social and personality traits, such as independence, openness, aesthetic orientation and interest in complexity.

A difficulty in measuring creativity is that people define it in different ways. Broadly speaking, it involves the discovery of new ideas or the association between existing ideas in a new and different way. Some insight is generally involved, fueling invention and innovation. Since so many fields offer an opportunity for creativity, it becomes difficult to narrow the definition even further. For example, creativity can involve precision or a high level of abstract thinking and artistic talent.

Following the Creative Impulse

Whatever it is, our society values creativity as that which allows us to make great leaps forward as a civilization. It's a value to foster in our homes and in the classroom. And it's fun for people of all ages to explore their inner world, while at the same time following their creative impulses in the world of the arts, science, technology and mathematics.