Creativity: Teasing the Brain with Fun, Play, and Games

Brain-building Puzzles, Activities, Games, and Brainteasers

Research continues to prove that creative thinking and problem solving skills are enhanced by the challenging fun and play puzzles, games, and brainteasing activities give to the brain. And if you're seeking resources for fun brain exercises, mind challenges, and puzzles to expand your thinking 'outside the box' skills, this collection of creativity-enhancing puzzle and brainteasers will keep you busy for hours!

Creativity Portal's Brain-Building Features

Printable Word Search, Wordsearch, (Find-a-Word) Puzzles
By Chris Dunmire
If finding hidden words in a scrambled letter grid are your bag, you'll love stretching your creative brain with this assortment of seasonal and holiday-themed find-a-word puzzles that you can download and print for personal use. Teachers have permission to use these puzzles in the classroom. Puzzles include Valentine's Day, Autumn, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

Creative WordART Activities
By Chris Dunmire
If you're drawn to ' thinking outside the box' with words and art, these Be Creative! activities are the perfect challenge for you: TypARTgraphy, WordType, Create a WordSearch, and Mixed-up Cliches.

More Puzzle and Brainteaser Resources

Robert Alan Black's Creativity Challenges Articles
Do you want to increase your creativeness, expand your creative thinking skills, spark your creativity, and learn fun ways to tap and improve your creativity in 15 minutes? If so, try out Robert Allen Black's Creativity Challenges!

Archimedes Lab
Dedicated to making geometry fun through visual creativity, this site encourages mathematical learning with interactive puzzles. Students of all ages can explore the wide variety of thinking games and downloadable puzzle projects.

Wordjuxtapoz.com
Creative thinking puzzles, wordplay, riddles and brain teasers for the whole brain.

Brainers Brain Teasers
Over 50 brain teaser riddles and answers to sharpen your problem-solving skills and help you to think outside of the box!

How to Build Your Own Creativity Challenging Puzzles
Michael Reilly shows you how to construct your own Weaver's Puzzle using wood, string, and art tacks. Includes detailed step-by-step photo illustrations to make this fun, mind-challenging puzzle. Other puzzle projects include a Bug-A-Zoo and L.I.P.S. puzzle (Lines in Particular Shapes).

Droodles
Inspired by the droodle inventions of Roger Price in the 1950s, this site has tons of archived droodles you can creatively figure out. "A droodle is a doodle riddle. Or a riddle doodle. It's this scribble a friend makes up. It doesn't look like anything but you have to guess what it is."

Lateral Thinking Puzzles
These lateral thinking puzzles will exercise your brain cells and remind your brain that it can think laterally.

Creative Ideas and Games
Treasure trove of creative tips, mind-boggling brain workouts, icebreakers and energizers for training, games, creative indoor and fun outdoor games for all occasions.