Creativity is usually associated with art, forgetting that it accompanies us in our everyday life. We are constantly creating something, as a result of which we learn, experience, create our reality and that of others, enriching our own worldview as a result and also having fun. In the first part of this paper we outline a theoretical basis of creativity, and we present theories that explain creativity in a context of spontaneous children’s activities. In our research we started with an assumption that children are competent and capable. By careful observation of them, we were able to answer the questions: are children truly creative? In which situations? Can this creativity show us something about the child? The research problem was formul...