CREATIVITY & HOME ETHICS

CONTENT
LESSON 1 INTRODUCTION
Definition of Creativity
God given talent and Creativity

LESSON 2 CREATIVITY ENHANCEMENT
Factors Enhancing Creativity
Role of Discipline
Dedication
Commitment
Thinking
Patience and Perseverance
Consistency
Desire for Excellence

Home Ethics (Behavioural Management)
What is it
What did God say about the Home.

LESSON 3 DEVELOPING CREATIVITY 1 (PRACTICAL)
Keepers of Home
Girls - Sewing, Knitting, Decoration
Boys - Art work, Designs, Craft

LESSONS 4 DEVELOPING CREATIVITY 2 (PRACTICAL)
How to be purposefully engaged

LESSON 5 DEVELOPING CREATIVITY 3 (PRACTICAL)
Filling Home Needs through Creativity means

LESSONS 6 DEVELOPING CREATIVITY 4 (PRACTICAL)
Discouraging Idleness and Rough Activities
The Office environment (Tour of an Office set up)

LESSONS 7 RESOURCES FOR CREATIVITY

Lessons 1

Definition of Creativity

Creativity mean using up of imagination.

Imagining something in your spirit and making a reality of it by bringing it into the physical.

In Gen. 1:26-27 The Bible tells us that God created man in his own image.
a) God imagines man in His Spirit and
b) He Acted on His imagination by speaking out.
c) On speaking out man was created.

God did not leave man like that He breathed into man to make man a living being.

The Spirit of God breathed into man is what gives man the ability to create also. God saw in us the ability to create so He commanded us to dominate the earth. Eh expects man to use the wisdom deposited into him.

Look at the parable of the Talents – Matt. 25:14-30
1st servant was given five talents, he was a wise servant and not a waster, and he used his 5 talents for profiting. The Master was pleased with him and rewarded him very well.

2nd servant: He was wicked, lazy and unprofitable. He did not use the talent given to him. The Master was not happy with him so even that one talent was taken from him and given to one who already has plenty.

Vs 26. NOTE: It is wastefulness and wickedness unto God when we do not use the talents He has given us. Let us take an example from Jesus.

In John 6:1-14 Jesus fed the crowd of Five Thousand men apart from women and Children. At the end of the day, Jesus said they should collect at the remnant so that none will be wasted.
Vs 12: N.I.V. “Gather the pieces that are left over let nothing be wasted” It is in the light of this that we shall learn how to make use of left over foods.


Practical
Yam Balls

Equipment
1 Large Basin
A Masher
Perforated spoon
2 Trays
Deep frying pan
Knife
Chopping Board
Paper Napkin

Ingredients
Some left over yam
Any left over meat
Thyme
Curry
Garlic
Ground dry or fresh pepper
Oil
2 Onions medium size
4 Eggs
Bread crumbs
Salt to taste

Method:
1. Mash the boiled yam add beef minced or diced, add onions spices and salt to taste.
2. Add 2 eggs to bind up the mixture.
3. Break the remaining 2 eggs to make egg wash.
4. Using hand cut the mixture into small balls and roll out.
5. Dip the ball in the egg wash remove and put on a tray of bread crumbs.
6. Roll them out into neat balls
7. Heat the oil in the frying pan
8. Fry off the yam balls into a golden brown colour
9. Neatly place on a clean tray and serve.

Yam balls can be served as part of main course or a snack for entertaining visitors.

Advantages
1. It is a good means at using left over food.
a) Yam could be left over
b) Bread could left over pieces (for bread crumbs)
c) Beef could be left over
2. It is good as part of the meal
3. Good as a snack
4. Good for entertaining.

Disadvantage
Does not keep for too long.

Sandwitches
There are different types of sandwitches, but today we will discuss one.

Egg Sandwitches
For 4 people
i. 8 good slices of bread
ii. 100 gms of Butter
iii. 4 Boiled eggs
iv. Seasonings – Salt, Pepper

Utensils
i. Sharp bread knife
ii. Good clean board
iii. Butter Knife
iv. Fork
v. Bowl

Method

1. Take bread and open flat in pairs, that will give you four pairs, spread butter on the bread, one side only.
2. Take the eggs, remove shell and mash them up with a fork. Add sait & pepper to taste.
3. Take the egg paste and spread it over one of each of the pairs.
4. Take the other piece and cover the egg and gently press together.
5. Neatly cut off the crust on both sides.
6. Cut the sand diagonally to give you two sandwitches for smaller sandwitches. Further cut the two sandwitces to give you four small sandwitches.
7. Place them on a clean plate and scroe.

Advantages

1. Sandwitches are a good source of snack.
2. They are easy to prepare.
3. A good source of using up left over foods.
4. Good for entertaining guests.

Disadvantage

1. Does not keep for long


PEANUT COOKIES

INGRESENTS

Peanut Paste - 175gm
Sugar - 125gm
Flour - 175gm
Butter - 200gm

Corse nuts for decoration handful.

Utenteils

- Bowl for mixing
- Baking tray

Method

1. Mix all ingredients together (except the corse nuts) into a smooth paste.
2. Using hands and paste into a small bolls and roll togther.
3. Place on baking tray and press with fingers.
4. Use the corse nuts to decoate.
5. Put in a pre-heated oven gas mark 3, electicity 180 f. Bake for 10-15 mins.
6. Remove from tray and allow it to cool.
7. Keep in an air tight tin.
8. Serve when necessary.

Advantages

1. Peanut cookies are good snack.
2. They are children’s favourites.
3. Can keep as long as it is an alright tin.

Disadvantages

- They absorb moisture in i.e. air and go soft when not properly stored.


MAINTENACE: Act of keeping something in good condition or working order.

BIBLICAL BASIS: Jn.3:27; 1 Cor.4:7; Gen.2:25-25; Ps.127:1; Mtt.25:15,18,24-30.
All establish the truth that everything we have (including ourselves) is a blessing from God. Whatever we are and have were obtaines and are meant for God'’ glory.
This consciousness should make us to fearfully (with Godly fear) maintain self, habitat(residence) and any other blessings of God in our charge as to be accounted for. Luke 6:1-2.

OBJECTIVE: That at the end of learning, each student should have higher sense of self worth(God’s investment in him/herself) and be able to do BETTER, maintenance of self, habitual (and other building) and any material blessings God puts in our care.

BLESSINGS OF MAINTENANCE:
Increases longevity of things and improved health for self.

WHAT TO MAINTAIN:
- OUR BODIES
HABITAT: HOMES, OFFICE, SCHOOL AND OTHER BUILDINGS MATERIAL BLESSINGS.

1. OUR BODEIS:
- SPIRITUAL: By God’s Word: Heb.1:3;Ps.119:116;Joel 3:10;3Jn.1:2

Prayer & Praise to God: Lk.18:1-8;Mt.6:13;Ps.50:23;67:5-6 etc.

- PHYSICAL: Food:Gen.2:16-17
Sleep/Rest:Gen.2:23;Ex.35:2;20:8-11.
Work/Exercise:Mt.20:1-7
Hygiene:Num.8:7;Rev.1:5-6;My.6:17;Heb.10:22.
Water and Soap:Gen.18:4.
Clothes:Gen.3:11 and foot wear/pressing iron and shoes polish and brush, body and hair cream, tooth paste and brush/chewing stick.

II. HABITAT: - Homes, School and Office Buildings, Workshop, Hospital.

Surroundings
- Sweeping – Broom
- Moping - Bucket/Mop
- Dusting - Napkins
- Cobweb removal - Brooms, long broom
- Checking of cockroaches/roaches and etc. Cleanliness and chemical treatment.
- Weeding - Hoe, Cutlass, Rakes
- Lawn Mowing - Mowing machine, Cutlass.

III. OTHER MATERIAL BLESSING for man’s comfort and pleasure and for business. E.g. Cars, fridges, television, radio and cassette player.
Cars: Routine cleaning of engine oil and water and battery water etc.

Television, radio and Cassette Player: Switch or remove from socket, for power failure or drop when Not watching, keep water from dropping inside esp. when cleaning, etc.

PRATICAL: Students to locate one simple object that needs repair and bring it to next class for practical maintenance so that the object becomes usable again at home! E.g. spoilt audio cassette tapes with razor blade and precision screw drivers. Etc.

QUESTIONS 2:
1. Which one of these items does not belong to maintenance tool: hoe, cutlass, rake, broom, snack, chewing stick, pressing iron, screw driver, mop, shoe polish.
a. Chewing stick
b. Shoe polish
c. Snake
d. Screw driver

ART WORK AND CRAFT

DEFINE:
1. Art-creation or expression of something, beautiful to eye, e.g. painting, sculpture, scriptural writing for divine inspirations (Deut.6:6-9)
2. Craft-occupation or profession or hobby that need skill or technique in the use of the hands e.g. basket weaving, tray weaving(both, from palm stock), pot making cane chair, hat weaving esp. these having brims; Sculpture (has it ever occurred to you that the “raw material” for making the most valuable creation (man) was not far-feteched but dust? This is to say that if we allow God to work in us, the earth can benefit us much beyond planting therein.

BIBLOCAL INSPIRIATION & EXAMPLES: Gen.1:1-3;Jn.1:1-3;Prov.22:29;18:16;Mt.25:15-30;EX.31:1-6;36:1-4;Jn.3:27;Jm.1:5;Pr.3:27-28;Mt.5:24.

OBJECTIVES:
That at the end of learning, each or most students be provoked to engage their hand to create art and craft work to glorify God and be blessing to others and themselves, esp. develop to earn a ‘living’ through.

PRATICALS: Clay or sculpture; paper, pencil and colored for drawing, broom stick for sort of art e.g. mosaic etc. other media can be sand, old clothes, feathers, cardboards etc,

QUESTION:

Art is the creation or expression of something beautiful to the –

a. nose
b. eye
c. toe
d. hair

GARDENING

DEFINE: The growing of flowers, vegetable, fruits, etc either on cultivated ground or in some sort of containers.

BIBLICAL ORIGIN: Gen.2:8-9,15;3:23
The first work that man had to do. Very fulfilling and directly life-sustaining.

OBJECTIVE: That at the end of the learning, varying degrees of interest be born in every student from being just a hobby to serious scale that may possibly develop to fufilling life-long profession. E.g. Henry Heinz.

POSSIBLE PRACTICALS: Tomatoes, pepper, vegetables, flowers etc. planted in containers such as pots, tin can, plastic contains, tire, etc filled with humus soil. The more daring ones can be groundnut, corn, papaw, banana and other on some little patches of soil around their homes.

Though the plants (produce) may mature before the whole course ends, but they can tale them to their homes and watch the growth as they tender them unto harvest time.
Tools: Hoes, Cutlass, Forks, Shears.

TO ENSURE GOOD RESULT

1. Not in hot good to water your plant in the cool of the day: morning and (not in hot sun).
2. Aerate the soil often by application of fork so plant breath.
3. Need for constant weeding so that our plant is not choked.


CREATIVITY
PRACTICALS (SEWING & DECORATION GROUP)

FILLING HOME NEEDS
DISCOURAGING ROUGH ACTIVITIES AND IDLENESS BY CREATIVE MEANS

There is need for all teens to be purposefully engaged to discourage them for idleness and rough activities. Every teenager therefore must look inward to figure out what gift is hidden within him, that if drawn out can be of benefit to his home, society and the world. 1 Thess.4:11 informs us to study to be quiet, doing our own business, working with our hands. The teenage years are years of giant discoveries of the potentials that are buried in the individual. Quietness here does not mean idleness but cannote calmness of the mind and spirit to enhance careful discoveries of the teen’s talents and how be can put it to use in the home to fill home needs. Apart from helping to carry out the general household work, the teenager can fill some peculiar home needs in the kitchen, living room, playing rooms for younger children, celebration time e.t.c. If every teenager will learn to manage the twenty four hours at his disposal daily, by doing purposeful work, guiding him to his destiny, in the nearest future we will have few or no midiocres and non-entities in this kingdom and the society. The teenage season is a time to study, thinkout, learn, findout and to work with your hands. There are many teens outside committing suicide simply because they can’t find their use in their home, society and the world some go into drugs and all manner of evil for this same reason. For the teens within the kingdom, they have this privilege of being stirred up to discern their gifts and creative abilities as their spirits are connected with God’s Spirit. With this, they have a place in the home and society to display their ideas and usefulness – eliminating idleness, rough activities and buried destines.

Below are samples of things to make to develop the Creative abilities of teens in filling home needs, eliminating idleness and rough activities.

- KITCHEN
Brooms
Food warmer
Aprons
Hand gloves
Scouring powders – egg shell

- CELEBRATION
Rosettes
Feather broach

- WELCOME NEW BORN BABY AND OTHER
Posters marked by children
Toys on wall
Ribbons tied on walls and posts
Wrapping paper designed on wall

- HOUSEHOLD FABRICS
Bedsheets
Pillow cases
Table covers
Chair back, arm rest covers
Underwear’s (petticoat, shimmies and knickers)
Hair net
Puffs
Shower caps
Throw pillows
Windows and door blinds

- MENDING
Buttons
Zippers
Loosed stitches

ESTIMATE FOR PRACTICAL

1. Masking tape 1 roll 70.00
2. Office pins 1 pack 60.00
3. Hand kneels 2 pack 30.00
4. Foam 1 roll 300.00
5. Thick cloth for gloves 2 yrds. 500.00
6. Lining 2 yrds. 160.00
7. Flowered cloth 1 yrd. 150.00
8. China white 2 yrds. 160.00
9. Wrapping paper 2 pcs. 100.00
10. Egg shell 50.00
11. Card board sheet 4 pcs. 60.00
12. Lace 10 yrds. 100.00
13. Elastic 5 yrds. 25.00
14. Netty Material 1 yrd. 200.00
15. Ribbons 5 yrds. 25.00
16. Thread 5 rolls, 60.00
- TOTAL N2, 050.00

WHAT WE LEARNT IN TEENS CREATIVITY
PRACTICAL CLASS:

• TABLE MAT
• HAIT BOW
• ADULT AND BABY SUNSUIT
• SHIMI FOR TRANSPARENT CLOTHENS
• KITCHEN APRON
• UNDER SKIRIT
• FOOD WARMER
• THROW PILLOW
• CONFETTI
• CHAIR BACK AND ARM COVERS
• PANTS
• TOY
• HANDKERCHIEFFS
• KITCHEN HAND GLOVE
• USE OF OLD CALENDARS
• HEART DESIGN DECORATION
• FEART DESIGN DECORATION
• FEATHER BROACH
• SLUMBER HAIR NET
• CONVERSION OF OLD CLOTHS TO ITEMS USES IN THE HOME
• SHOWER CAP
• FRAMING CALENDARS
• SHORT KNICKERS
• SLIPPERS AND POWDER
• ROSSETES
• FOL AND CARDBOARD PAPER DECORATIONS
• CASSAVA STARCH
• BROOM FOR SWEEPING
• FEATHER BROACH

ACTUAL ESTMAATE FOR PRACTICAL
MATERIALS 23/7/97

Masking tape 1 pack N 20.00
Hand needles Pack N 30.00
Foam 1 roll N 200.00
Gloves material 2 yards N 130.00
Lining 2 yards N 110.00
Flowered cloth 1 yard N 150.00
China white 4 yards N 300.00
Wrapping paper 5 pcs N 100.00
Egg shell N 50.00