101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

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Noun Hounds Handout


Suppose your objective is to improve a flashlight. For your modifier and noun you think
of the combination “rising elephants.” Next you free-associate: leaping trunks, swiveling
suitcases, twisting airplanes, flapping wings. You then use these combinations to suggest
the following ideas:


  • A telescopic flashlight capable of holding a variable number of batteries (from “rising
    elephants”)

  • A storage compartment for small objects such as a spare bulb (from “leaping trunks”)

  • A hovercraft flashlight that floats above the ground or water (from “twisting air-
    planes”)

  • A flashlight with shutters for signaling (from “flapping wings”)


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