12 Free Resources for Practicing Creativity
The essential first step of creativity is believing you’re creative. That might take practice! That’s why we’ve gathered these 12 great creativity resources for youth and adults.
October 8, 2021
Entrepreneurship Education Activities
Enhance your entrepreneurship education with VentureLab’s Entrepreneurship Education Activities, offering free, hands-on resources to engage and inspire your students. Discover a range of exercises designed to develop essential skills like creativity, critical thinking, empathy, financial literacy, and observation. Empower your students to embrace entrepreneurial mindsets, cultivate resourcefulness, and solve problems creatively.
Mindset of the Month: Resourcefulness
Resourcefulness is being able and willing to “do more with less.” How do you inspire resourcefulness in your youth? Find out in this blog!
March 3, 2021
Mindset of the Month: Embracing Failure
Most people go out of their way to avoid failure. When they do have a run-in, it’s something to forget about and quickly move past.
January 7, 2021
Practical Financial Literacy with the VentureLab Business Builder
In 6 easy steps, The VentureLab Business Builder helps you think through all the important parts of your business, test your plan, and create a business model!
January 5, 2021
Creativity and Innovation with Reverse Brainstorming
Think outside the box to find creative solutions to challenges with reverse brainstorming! This isn’t your normal brainstorming technique: instead of solving a problem, you make it worse!
May 29, 2020
Observation, Empathy & Problem Solving Activity
In this activity, students will practice actively observing and empathizing while viewing an image. They will then come up with a problem, as well as a product or service that might help solve that problem. Then it will be their turn to try it on their own!
April 28, 2020
Learn Observation vs. Inference with this Entrepreneurship Activity
Is the glass half empty or half full? Thinking about the answers to this question teaches us about how entrepreneurs use observation and inference.
April 16, 2020
Take a Peek at the Observation Challenge
The observation challenge asks us to complete a simple observation task but reveals a much bigger surprise about our ability to actively take in the world around us!
April 7, 2020
How to Make and Use an Idea Journal
The Idea Journal is a place for youth to show their creativity outwardly: doodle, decorate, color, and design the Idea Journal any way you like.
March 31, 2020
Free Activity: Prototyping Challenge
This activity will get students straight into generating solutions for a user or client’s problems by creating a prototype.
January 21, 2020
Sing along to the Entrepreneur Song!
It’s never too early to start giving kids the gift of language and the vocabulary they need to think about themselves and the world around them! VentureLab created the Entrepreneur Song as a fun and meaningful way to give students access to the vocabulary around entrepreneurial learning and thinking.
March 12, 2019
Free Activity: Pitch Game
We often hear from teachers that they would love to incorporate entrepreneurial learning into their classes but have limited time. We wanted to give you a quick, easy way to introduce the entrepreneurial process and the associated mindsets and skills.
October 11, 2018