The Children’s Creativity and Co-creation workshops empower children to not only identify and articulate their problems as well as that of socially disadvantaged segments, but also to find solutions individually and collectively. Involvement of children in solving the social challenges faced by them and others would help us mobilise the creative potential of children around the world. This might help in overcoming persistent social inertia in emerging and sometimes even in advanced economies. The workshops aimed at tapping the dormant creative potential of underprivileged children who probably did not have the courage or opportunity or a platform to articulate their ideas. Likewise, children from relatively affluent families who received the award who have innovated in some areas were expected to come out with creative ideas in other domains as well. A total of four such workshops were organized as per the table below:
| S.No | Date | Venue | No of Participants |
| 1 | November 7-8, 2016 | RashtrapatiBhawan, New Delhi | 70 |
| 2 | January 11-12, 2017 | Mehsana | 165 |
| 3 | March 6-7, 2017 | RashtrapatiBhawan, New Delhi | 82 |
| 4 | May 24-25, 2017 | Grambharati, Amrapur | 65 |
More than three hundred ideas were generated in these exercises. It is hoped that many of these children will grow into empathetic, creative and compassionate leaders in future.
More than three hundred ideas were generated in these exercises. It is hoped that many of these children will grow into empathetic, creative and compassionate leaders in future.
Honey Bee Network database –Children Creativity
- Workshop on Children Creativity and Innovation (Honey Bee 27 (3) 13, 2016)
- Inquisitive children and bountiful nature PART-II : 36th ShodhYatra, Arunachal Pradesh (Honey Bee 27 (2) 5-10, 2016)
- Children Creativity and Co-creation workshop (Honey Bee 26 (2), 16-17, 2015)
- Creative Ideas of Children Awaited !!! (Honey Bee 25 (3) 21, 2014)
- Creative children around the world (Honey Bee 25 (3) 18-21, 2014)
- Empathetic education : India 2025 (Honey Bee 25 (3) 3, 2014)
- Why children should not be a Sink for our Sermons? (Honey Bee 25 (2) 3, 2014)
- Children innovate (Honey Bee 25 (1) 15, 2014)
- Teachers as Transformers (Honey Bee 24 (3) 8 & 20, 2013)
- Ignited India : Children Uncaged (Honey Bee 24 (3) 3, 2013)
- Creative children around the world (Honey Bee 23 (3) 19-21, 2012)
- Impatient children and the inverted model of innovation (Honey Bee 23 (3) 3, 2012)
- Creative Children Send Us Your Ideas! (Honey Bee 22 (1) & 22 (2) 39, 2011)
- Curious kids, radical activists, indolent systems 27th ShodhYatra, May 28 to June 3, 2011, Silli to Hundru, Ranchi, Part – II (Honey Bee 22 (4) & 23 (1) 33-36, 2012)
- Creative Children : Ideas Awaited ! (Honey Bee 22 (4) & 23 (1) 10, 2012)
- Seven lessons that we can learn from creative children ! (Honey Bee 22 (3) 3, 2011)
- Ignite 10 : Children creativity and Innovation Competition (Honey Bee 21 (4), 21 to 22, 2010)
- Danger school ! (Honey Bee, 21 (3), 20, 2010)
- Children care for all : Animals, old age and diseased (Honey Bee, 21 (3), 19, 2010)
- Children are creative : it is the adults who need to be educated ! (Honey Bee, 21 (3), 3, 2010)
- Aiming Small is a Crime : Rekindling Children’s Creativity (Honey Bee 20 (4), 8 to 9, 2009 & 2010)
- Tapping the Creativity of Children (Honey Bee 19 (4) : 11, 2008)
- Ideas flow on Children’s Creativity Day Celebrations (Honey Bee 18 (3) & 18 (4) 39, 2007)
- The Young Creators : Inventions from Whitmore Primary School (Honey Bee, 18 (2) 9-11, 2006)
- Creative Children : Malaysia Innovates (Honey Bee, 17 (3) 8-9, 2006)
- Lessons from India’s Children (Honey Bee, 16 (4) 19, 2005)
- Nurturing the Curiosity and Creativity of Children : Vijaya Sherry Chand (Honey Bee, 16 (3), 4, 2005)
- Unleashing the Creative Imagination of Children (Honey Bee, 16 (3) 3, 2005)
- Treating green diarrhoea in children (Honey Bee, 16 (1) 24, 2005)
- Educational Reconstruction in Kutch : The ShodhYatra with a Difference (Honey Bee, 12 (3) 4-5, 2001)
Anil K. Gupta blog – Children Creativity
- Nurturing creative, impatient (with inertia) and innovative children (Anil K. Gupta blog, 1 dec, 2019)
- Celebrating freedom from inertia : story of a school teacher (Anil K. Gupta blog, 19 August 2019)
- Unleashing children creativity : What can a teacher do (Anil K. Gupta blog, 5 August 2019)
- Making new education policy biased in favour of more innovation and excellence ! (Anil K. Gupta blog, July 24, 2019)
- What do young tech innovators feel about emerging innovation movement? (Anil K. Gupta blog, July 09, 2019)
- Ecological knowledge of rural children (Anil K. Gupta blog, May 10, 2019)
- Children innovators and researchers : a new paradigm in design thinking & doing (DTD) (Anil K. Gupta blog, November 5, 2018)
- Early indicator of a transformed India : 77% ideas from disadvantaged children (Anil K. Gupta blog, 29 September 2018)
- Chamba ShodhYatra : Creative children in a constrained economy (Anil K. Gupta blog, 3 September 2018)
- Leveraging creativity of children for a new, invigorated and youthful India : 42-ShodhYatra Kutch (Anil K. Gupta blog, 28 August 2018)
- Creative children of Andaman : giving wings to their dreams (Anil K. Gupta blog, 13 May 2018)
- Fertilising imagination of children : what happens when they grow up (Anil K. Gupta blog, 23 December 2017)
- Why teaching social innovation to children and college students urgently needed (Anil K. Gupta blog, 28 October, 2017)
- IGNITE Honey Bee Children Creativity FOIN 2016-2017 SRISTI UNICEF Report (Anil K. Gupta blog, 28 September, 2017)
- Global Innovation challenges : a call for creative connections with children, youth and women (Anil K. Gupta blog, 25 June 2017)
- Odisha ShodhYatra : Pervasive Poetry, widespread experiments, healthy children (Anil K. Gupta blog, June 16, 2017)
- Remembering Dr. Kalam … by celebrating his birthday as Children Creativity and Innovation day !! (Anil K. Gupta blog, 15 October 2016)
- Creative children of Arunachal (Anil K. Gupta blog, January 29, 2016)
- Looms for physically challenged – wings to imaginative children : Indian children refuse to live with problems unsolved indefinitely (Anil K. Gupta blog, 10 December 2015)
- Stress monitoring mechanism in animals-Wings to imaginative children : Indian children refuse to live with problems unsolved indefinitely (Anil K. Gupta blog, 5 December 2015)
- Body Suit-Wings to imaginative children : Indian children refuse to live with problems unsolved indefinitely (Anil K. Gupta blog, 4 December 2015)
- Seed container that indicates growth of germs – Wings to imaginative children : Indian children refuse to live with problems unsolved indefinitely (Anil K. Gupta blog, 3 December 2015)
- Umbrella for more than five persons – Wings to imaginative children : Indian children refuse to live with problems unsolved indefinitely (Anil K. Gupta blog, 2 December 2015)
- Wings to imaginative children : Indian children refuse to live with problems unsolved indefinitely (Anil K. Gupta blog, 1 December 2015)
- Empathetic children overcome inertia (Anil K. Gupta blog, 9 November 2015)
- “Chalata hai” to “Chalna hai” : Dr AP J Abdul Kalam ignite awards for creative children (Anil K. Gupta blog, October 19, 2015)
- Inverted triangle of innovation : children invent, engineers fabricate and companies go to market (Anil K. Gupta blog, June 15, 2015)
- “Don’t teach your children, they observe you all the time” (Anil K. Gupta blog, April 21, 2015)
- Pre-school children : let them see the context, not content (Anil K. Gupta blog, April 11, 2015)
- Give children freedom to find solutions : academic (Anil K. Gupta blog, February 20, 2015)
- Why children are not Sink of Sermons? (Anil K. Gupta blog, December 09, 2014)
- Overcoming Inertia : children show the way (Anil K. Gupta blog, March 15, 2014)
- Overcoming Inertia : children show the way (Anil K. Gupta blog, March 06, 2014)
- National Inclusive Innovation Centre for Development (NIICenD) takes off at Gram Bharati and ignite awards to creative children feb 19, 2014 at teh hands of Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, former President of India (Anil K. Gupta blog, February 18, 2014)
- Lighting the life of the Children : educational innovations by teachers (Anil K. Gupta blog, November 04, 2013)
- Women’s and Children safety : fundamental shift in social attitudes needed (Anil K. Gupta blog, May 19, 2013)
- Impatient children : Indolent leaders (Anil K. Gupta blog, October 28, 2012)
- Inverted model of innovation : children innovation ignite 12 awards (Anil K. Gupta blog, October 20, 2012)
- (With P.G. Vijaya Sherry Chand, Shailesh R. Shukla) Ecological Knowledge of Rural Children (Anil K. Gupta blog, July 24, 2012)
- Educating children for new India (Anil K. Gupta blog, November 10, 2011)
- Seven Lessons we can learn from creative children (Anil K. Gupta blog, November 06, 2011)
- Inverted Model of Innovation : children inventors (Anil K. Gupta blog,June 11, 2011)
- A school where children don’t want to go home (Anil K. Gupta blog, April 03, 2011)
- For the health of our children (Anil K. Gupta blog, February 22, 2011)
- Ignite 10 awards for creative children announced (Anil K. Gupta blog, October 17, 2010)
- Dreaming a museum of innovations and crazy creativity : where will it happen? Will children be my allies? (Anil K. Gupta blog, August 22, 2010)
- Children day : Paving the road for pursuing uncharted paths (Anil K. Gupta blog, November 14, 2009)
- Do we answer questions posed by our children? (Anil K. Gupta blog, November 09, 2009)
- Kindling/killing creativity of children : how to reform our school educational system (Anil K. Gupta blog, October 18, 2009)
- Iron triangle : tale of black children who are trying to carve a new future in USA (Anil K. Gupta blog, August 18, 2009)
- Ignite09 invited ideas, innovation and tk from children, NIF awaits thousands of entries (Anil K. Gupta blog, July 22, 2009)
- Secret of Kashmir’s victory over malnourishment of children (Anil K. Gupta blog, June 12, 2009)