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Paper Clip Creativity & Kid Inventors

The Paper Clip Challenge

A paper clip is just a bent piece of wire. But an INVENTOR sees possibilities! The Paper Clip Challenge is a famous creativity test: how many uses can you think of?

Bookmark, earring, zipper pull, phone SIM tool, picture hanger, fishing hook, cable organizer, money clip, chain link, ornament hook, reset button pusher, and more! Creative thinkers find 50+ uses.

This is called DIVERGENT THINKING — coming up with many different ideas instead of one right answer. Inventors need this skill more than any other. A cardboard tube becomes a telescope, megaphone, or marble run. A plastic bottle becomes a bird feeder, funnel, or plant waterer. The first step of inventing is looking at ordinary things and asking: What ELSE could this be?

Paper Clip Creativity & Kid Inventors

The Paper Clip Challenge

A paper clip is just a bent piece of wire. But an INVENTOR sees possibilities! The Paper Clip Challenge is a famous creativity test: how many uses can you think of?

Bookmark, earring, zipper pull, phone SIM tool, picture hanger, fishing hook, cable organizer, money clip, chain link, ornament hook, reset button pusher, and more! Creative thinkers find 50+ uses.

This is called DIVERGENT THINKING — coming up with many different ideas instead of one right answer. Inventors need this skill more than any other. A cardboard tube becomes a telescope, megaphone, or marble run. A plastic bottle becomes a bird feeder, funnel, or plant waterer. The first step of inventing is looking at ordinary things and asking: What ELSE could this be?