A language is a tool that helps human beings to discover the world. It enables naming things, objects, phenomena, as well as describing observed and experienced states and activities. With a use of language, everybody can express their feelings and attitude to others. A child naturally maneuvers a language and plays with it, disclosing its verbal creativity. Verbal creativity may be described as an ability of transforming previously heard sentences into new ones, original in terms of content, form and method of expression. The aim of this article is to explain the importance of verbal creativity in the process of growth of every human being. The article starts with an explanation of the creativity issue and one of its forms, verbal creativity. In the further part of the article, Howard Gardner’s linguistic intelligence is discussed, along with determinants of children’s verbal activity. Several examples of tasks, helping to develop children’s linguistic creativity close the article.

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship, including its nature, between creativity and perfectionism in secondary school students. Its research section is focused on quantitative research analysing relationships between figurative and verbal creativity on the one hand and perfectionism and perfectionist thoughts on the other hand. Our findings indicate that there is a weak positive relationship between figurative creativity and perfectionism and also a moderate positive relationship between verbal creativity and perfectionism.