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title: "Creativity and Problem-Solving Activities for Kids | Nookly"
url: https://nookly.com/creativity-and-problem-solving
description: "Open-ended building, art and invention challenges for kids, personalized around their ideas, with room to try, rethink and try again."
lang: en
---

Creativity and problem-solving

# There’s more than one way to build a s p a c e s h i p.

A cardboard box, a toy that needs a bridge, a strange new paintbrush. Nookly helps your kid develop their individuality and creativity with personalized learning challenges and content.

Create a challenge: https://my.nookly.com/create/

LEARNING THROUGH PLAY

## Learning is play The future of learning is play

Image: A girl painting a tree at her easel by a sunny window (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/da988814-0e0d-4ffb-88da-4cb1af17e712/creativity-paint.webp)
Image: A girl in a wheelchair building a wooden solar system model (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/065c02fc-dbf1-4574-a6f6-d989e15c2f13/creativity-planets.webp)
Image: Two sisters building a blanket fort with fairy lights (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/ff7035b6-920f-4509-b41b-f7f2e1621014/creativity-fort.webp)
Image: A boy running his own pretend backyard café (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/aee20e21-923d-4ef4-b7f4-a0d5551f6f10/creativity-cafe.webp)

With AI as a creative partner, kids can become the poet, the writer and the artist.

They turn an idea into something they made while it still excites them. Play becomes the classroom.

Creativity that one-size-fits-all worksheets often miss finally gets room to grow, and the story stays theirs.

Tell, draw, dictate

Oral storytelling and mark-making come first for little ones.

Characters and sequence

Planners that help kids decide who, what and then what.

Sentence building

Starters and word banks that support without replacing their words.

Revise kindly

One question at a time: What could be clearer? What’s the funniest part?

Illustrative example

## Start with what they love

Choose a starting point and see three different ways to explore it.

An adult asks · Cardboard inventions

> “We have a stack of delivery boxes and a kid who wants to build a robot.”

Three possible outputs

- Printable Invention blueprint sheet
- Game Three-materials challenge cards
- Story The Robot Who Was Made of Boxes

Image: A girl sawing a plank while a boy holds it steady at a workshop table (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/f199dfbc-61b9-40b5-8d73-f05fc5ea1a1d/kids-woodworking.webp)

How Nookly works

## Made in five steps From child to finished thing, in five steps.

Step one

### First, Nookly gets to know the child.

Before anything is made, you tell Nookly who this child actually is — how they look, who lives in their house, the friends and pets they talk about, and what they are obsessed with this month. Everything Nookly creates later is built from this one profile.

Set up once. Reused in everything after.

- Image: Home illustration (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/a774c539-5761-4a78-bcbd-3a952a1a8487/parents.png)
  Home
  Mom, Dad and baby brother
- Image: Best friend illustration (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/ff10e1f7-58ee-40ac-b7d8-09380c4f651a/best-friend.webp)
  Best friend
  Chloe from school

Zara, age 5

Image: Zara, a five-year-old in a yellow t-shirt and blue jeans (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/c643542c-94ce-4359-a039-8e583a8e3a7d/zara-cutout.webp)

- Image: Interests illustration (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/cdbfbdfc-31d7-4e60-a436-8e9d9a0a88be/dinosaur.png)
  Interests
  Dinosaurs, puddles and the colour red
- Image: Pets illustration (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/4dc672e4-23b9-43e1-afcc-a919cdcb6701/turtle.webp)
  Pets
  Biscuit, a very slow tortoise

Step 1 of 5

Learning bundles

## Creative bundles Bundles for inventive minds

Build and improve, design a pattern, invent a game, write a story, plan a costume. Bundles that give every idea somewhere to go. Explore more ready-made ideas in Nookly’s public children’s learning resource library, the Neighborhood (https://my.nookly.com/marketplace/browse/).

**Want one made just for your child?** Subscribe below to personalize this bundle, or create your own around your child’s name, interests and goals.

Open Easy STEM Activities: Ramps, Floating and Bridges (https://my.nookly.com/marketplace/bundles/6ac38e17112b080ffca3cf0c)

Picture cards

Will It Float?

Sink-or-float picture cards that get kids predicting before they test.

Ages 5-6

### Easy STEM Activities: Ramps, Floating and Bridges: https://my.nookly.com/marketplace/bundles/6ac38e17112b080ffca3cf0c

Hands-on STEM built on the predict–test–observe loop. Kids guess, then try ramps, floating, and bridge-building for themselves, with picture cards and short videos modelling each experiment.

$7.99

Purchase bundle: https://my.nookly.com/marketplace/bundles/6ac38e17112b080ffca3cf0c
Subscribe & personalize: https://my.nookly.com/membership/

### What's in the membership?

Personalized stories and learning experiences, guided by their family. Work toward a learning goal with a personalized plan, or create something for the moment they’re in.

- #### Personalized creations
  Stories, videos, songs, podcasts and activities made around the child in front of them.
- #### Learning plans
  A personalized learning plan, called a Blueprint, supports a goal the family chooses and helps the kid achieve it.
- #### Resources to explore
  Explore ready-to-use stories and activities, with personalization where available.

Subscribe now (https://my.nookly.com/membership)

## Ideas to try together Ideas for learning together

- Image: Two children painting and taping a cardboard spaceship labeled Solar Explorer in a cozy playroom (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/68b0b3b2-a304-4a84-8fe4-02149fbcf021/creativity-solar-explorer.webp)
  Guide
  ### The Box Is a Spaceship. What Else Could It Be?
  Everyday ways to make room for more than one right answer.
  Read the article (https://nookly.com/learning/creative-problem-solving-kids-second-idea)
- Image: A delighted girl in a playroom winding up a brass-and-copper robot duck (https://nookly.com/__l5e/assets-v1/b789e3ec-e7fa-4498-8200-0860b14e83a4/creativity-robot-duck.webp)
  Comparison
  ### Nookly vs Scratch vs LEGO: Three Ways to Give an Idea Somewhere to Go
  Coding, bricks and personalized challenges, compared by fit.
  Read the article (https://nookly.com/learning/nookly-vs-scratch-lego-creative-play)

Start with the box on the floor

Tell Nookly what they want to build.

Create a challenge (https://my.nookly.com/create/)

## Questions? We l o v e those!

### Will this make my child more creative?

### What if my child wants to copy an example?

### Do I need special art or building supplies?

### How do I handle frustration when things fall apart?

### Is there screen time involved?

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