101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

104 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving

101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving.Copyright © 2005 by John Wiley &

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Rorschach Revisionist Handout

Refer to the inkblot shown in Figure 5.2 to stimulate ideas for improving a telephone.

First, describe the inkblot, for example:

• A jet aircraft with swept-back wings


• Siamese twins on a teeter-totter in the large part on the top
  of the inkblot


• A spider


• A frog holding a modern sculpture


• An Amazon beetle


• A moon-landing craft


• A mirror image of stalagmites


• The remains of a spider dropped from a twenty-story
  building


• Two alligators with conjoined twins on their backs


• A Vulcan tree root

Next, use the descriptions and any intuitive reactions to generate ideas:

• A children’s telephone in the shape of a airplane fighter (or frog, spider, beetle, space-
  ship, or alligator)


• A teeter-totter type of telephone in which the phone base goes down when the receiv-
  er is lifted (and vice versa)


• A telephone designed as a copy of a modern sculpture


• A telephone that “walks” across the table toward you when it rings


• A stainless steel telephone


• An alligator telephone that cradles the receiver in its mouth


• A “piggyback” telephone that contains a detachable cellular phone and a computer
  database of names and addresses


• A telephone that comes apart as a puzzle

Figure 5.2. Inkblot

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