Recent surveys have shown that as employers look to hire, one of the first characteristics the look for is creativity and ingenuity, that out-of-the-box type of thinking that allows for new marketing opportunities for businesses to grow. That’s all the more reason to foster creativity among your kids, right?

Unfortunately, the sense of creativity is actually becoming more and more of a rarity, particularly with the most recent wave of digital natives who struggle to find inventive ways to play (gasp) outdoors. This drastic loss of original thinkers is devastating to our culture, since inventive new ideas are such a rich part of our heritage and we pride ourselves in it as a nation. Think, if it weren’t for Thomas Edison, we would be watching TV in the dark.