Moving from Crafts to Creativity: Open-Ended Activities that Engage, Inspire, and Teach

Open-ended activities are engaging, inspire participants to think deeply, and teach participants that their choices and voices matter. This workshop will offer a rationale for replacing text-book activities with open-ended activities, and will share tools for creating these projects and evaluating impact.

As we move toward the cold winter months, this one-hour workshop will fire you up to start planning and revising programs for 2024.

About the Presenter

Rebecca Shulman has spent the past 25 years working in museums. Over this time she has become a vocal advocate for fostering creativity and problem-solving through open-ended artmaking. While serving as Director of the Peoria PlayHouse Children's Museum, she worked with Peoria Park District colleagues to think about and promote open-ended activities in environmental education. She now lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she runs a consulting firm specializing in program and organizational planning and offering a range of professional development workshops.

If you have any questions reach out to EEAI Executive Director Brekke Bounds at ed@eeai.net