We’re thrilled with the last 5 years …
BUT we’re even more EXCITED about what’s next!

POOP CAMP offers an exclusive opportunity for children to hang out with the creator of The Poop Museum, in small, live, virtual, camps to earn their PhD in Poop. Learning and laughing more than you may think possible in this fabulous, funny, fact filled fecal adventure! Camps are small group so spaces are extremely limited. Registration is NOW open! With a HUGE Memorial Day Weekend Launch discount! Click here for more information and grab your spot before they’re all gone!

The Poop Museum is universally loved and it seemed to us that it would be AH.mazing to create a Build Your Own Poop Museum Kit, so that kids all over the world can share their love of poop with others too … so we did! Every camper at this summer’s Poop Camp will get a kit with their registration! And if you work with children at a school, library, scout group, home school co-op or elsewhere, and would like a kit for your kids, please email poocrew@thepoopmuseum.com and tell us about your kids and your organization and we’ll make sure you get a digital kit to print and build!

The thing that distinguishes us humans from all other life forms (for now at least!) is the ability to see, to imagine, things that don’t yet exist. And … we have the ability to bring the things we have imagined into the real world. We are uniquely creative beings!

We aren’t just talking about art or music or other “creative” fields. We’re talking about every field from engineering, architecture, rocket science, law, banking, retail, marketing and advertising, government, environmental sciences, to education and beyond … In fact every field you can think of, requires creativity.

In truth, every single thing that exists in our world, from pencils to large hadron colliders, began as a thought, an idea, imagined by someone.

Creativity requires imagination, and the best fuel for imagination is curiosity because the more we know, the more we can imagine, and the more we can imagine, the more we can create.

There is a direct correlation between curiosity and creativity.

There is also a curiosity and creativity problem.

Children are born wildly curious, wildly imaginative, and wildly creative.

But kids ask significantly fewer questions as they grow older, with preschoolers averaging about 100 questions a day, while middle schoolers often stop asking questions altogether.

98% of 4 and 5 year olds score at genius level for creativity, by the time children are 10 years old, that has fallen to 30%, and by the time they are 15, only 12% of children are still genius creators. By the time we are adults, only 2% retain that genius creativity.

Academic focus is making kids smarter on IQ tests, but when it comes to creativity, the education system seems to be producing a reverse trend, and scores have been falling.

Torrance's tests, which are the gold standard in creativity assessment, don’t measure creativity perfectly. But what they do, incredibly well, is predict kids' creative accomplishments as adults. Kids who came up with more good ideas on Torrance's challenges, grew up to be more creative and innovative … they became entrepreneurs, inventors, doctors, authors, diplomats, researchers, designers, architects and educators. Jonathan Plucker of Indiana University reanalyzed Torrance's data and found that …

The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.

Kyung Hee Kim at the College of William & Mary, analyzed almost 300,000 Torrance scores of children and adults and found that creativity scores steadily rose, just like IQ scores, until 1990. However, she also dicovered that since 1990, creativity scores have consistently declined. "It's very clear, and the decrease is very significant," Kim says. And “It is the scores of younger children in America—from kindergarten through sixth grade—for whom the decline is most serious.”

The trick is to help children hold on to the critical abilities that they are born with, as they grow up, especially in today’s world, where we could really do with creative solutions to very many things!

We plan to create a uniquely human, entirely kid friendly, portal for curiosity, imagination and creativity. And it’s going to be phenomenal and a ton of fun!

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