The article presents a study of virtual learning environment in creative education to develop creative thinking skills. The paper states concepts and principles of creative education creative thinking creative thinking process and learning theory for creative thinking. The virtual learning environment in creative education included arrangement of learning in asynchronous synchronous and collaborative condition which composed of knowledge environment media and tools environment friendly environment and individual environment. The arrangement was based on conceptual framework of creative education for the 21st century in order to develop creative thinking for lifelong learning.

The purposes of this research were to investigate elements that are essential for the learning environment of creative education on social network to develop creative thinking. The research methodology was documentary research. It was found that there were 3 major elements and 17 sub-elements which were essential for learning environment of creative education on social network to develop creative thinking; namely 1) Creative thinking development or learning process included six steps: (1) problem finding (2) data acquisition (3) analysis (4) solution finding (5) revise/evaluation (6) acceptance finding and (7) convergent thinking; 2) Resources or learning environment included four elements: (1) learning media (2) technology media (3)context and (4)communication; 3) Technologies or online social network in learning environment consisted of six elements: (1) identity network (2) creative network (3) interested network (4) collaboration network (5) gaming/virtual reality and (6) peer to peer communication network.

The researcher constructed a Thai Dessert lesson plan on Kanom Chan (Layer Sweet) leading to creative economy for vocational certificate level 2 the objectives of this research are to 1.Construct a Thai Dessert lesson plan on Kanom Chan (Layer Sweet) leading to creative economy for vocational certificate level 2 that has the efficiency standard of 80/80 2.Compare the achievement of learning of the learner before and after learning and 3.Assess learning behavior about the creativity in the area of psychomotor domain and effective domain of the learner after studying. Target group or population for this research is the 15 Foods and Nutrition students who study Thai Dessert on Kanom Chan (Layer Sweet) leading to Creative Economy in the second semester of 2011 vocational certificate level 2 Thonburi Vocational College. Tools for this research are the constructed lesson plan. The result of the research is shown that the efficient of the Thai Dessert lesson plan for Kanom Chan (Layer Sweet). leading to creative economy is 87.61/83.00 which is higher than the standard 80/80. The achievement of learning of the learner after the studying is higher than that of the beginning at statistical significance of 0.01. The level of the learners learning behavior psychomotor domain and effective domain is good.