Creativity Booster is a supportive personal growth guide that helps children and teenagers build emotional intelligence, resilience, and confidence. It provides thoughtful, age-appropriate guidance on understanding themselves, managing challenges, and navigating the world with greater clarity and self-belief.
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Exercises to unlock original thinking. Here are some of the most popular ways students use Creativity Booster every day:
Creativity isn't just for art students—it's essential for problem-solving, innovation, and success across every subject and career. Yet many UK students are taught to follow formulas and avoid risk-taking, leaving their creative thinking underdeveloped. The Creativity Booster provides structured exercises that unlock original thinking, challenge mental blocks, and help you approach problems from new angles. Whether you're writing a compelling essay, designing a Science project, solving complex Maths problems, or creating anything from scratch, this tool helps you break free from 'obvious' solutions and think imaginatively. The coach includes brainstorming techniques (like lateral thinking, provocation, and perspective-shifting), exercises to expand your idea generation, and strategies for evaluating which ideas have real potential. Applaa's Creativity Booster makes creativity teachable and practisable, not mystical. You build creative confidence through repetition and feedback. Unlike the myth that creativity is inborn, research shows it's a skill anyone can develop with practice. It's completely free and designed to make creative thinking feel accessible and fun for every UK student.
Start by identifying a challenge or project you're working on, then choose a creativity technique that fits your style. The tool offers exercises like mind storming, lateral thinking prompts, forced combinations, perspective-shifting, and what-if scenarios. Don't judge ideas immediately; the goal in the generation phase is quantity over quality. Set a timer and aim for volume; quantity builds momentum and often leads to surprising breakthroughs. Once you've generated many ideas, step back and evaluate: which ideas are most novel? Which are most feasible? Which excite you most? The creativity process isn't linear; you might circle back to generation multiple times. Use the Creativity Booster weekly, even on small challenges, to build your creative muscles.
Many students sabotage creativity through perfectionism, judging ideas before they're fully formed. You think, 'that's too weird,' and abandon it—often the weird ideas are the ones that work. Fear of failure or looking foolish also kills creativity; real innovation requires permission to be wrong. Another block is sticking too rigidly to 'the way it's always been done,' especially in subjects like English or Sciences where formulas feel safer than originality. Overthinking also paralyses creativity; sometimes you need to trust intuition and build later. Finally, low self-belief ('I'm not creative') becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Creativity is a skill, not an innate trait—everyone can develop it.
Getting started
Download Applaa free and explore the Creativity Booster's library of techniques and exercises
Choose one technique you haven't tried (lateral thinking, mind mapping, forced combinations)
Apply that technique to a current homework, project, or creative challenge
Reflect on what worked, then try a different technique the following week
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Yes. Creative problem-solving is essential in STEM. Scientists generate hypotheses through creative thinking, engineers solve problems through innovation, and mathematicians prove theorems through novel approaches.
Absolutely. Exams reward original thinking, especially in subjects like English Literature, History essays, or extended Science investigations. Practising creativity beforehand means you'll think differently under exam conditions.
That's actually where the Booster helps most. Develop creativity in your own time so you have flexibility and originality to bring to school tasks, even when the school culture doesn't actively encourage it.
No. The tool is designed for everyone, regardless of current creative confidence. Many students surprise themselves by generating brilliant ideas once they know how to structure the creative process.
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