101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

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666 Handout

An example using the problem of inventing new types of soup is shown in Table 6.4.

White Die Green Die Red Die

1. Cracker Jack stuff 1. Lunch time 1. Metal cylinders


2. Secret ingredients 2. Award winning 2. Exotic nutrition


3. Astronaut parties 3. Liquid delight 3. Healthy and wealthy


4. Annual physicals 4. Children’s party 4. Heated flavor


5. Security time 5. Loose goose 5. Just like Mom’s


6. Syrups 6. Free radical 6. Bowl full of joy
   Table 6.4. 666 Example

After you have rolled the dice, you might think of the following types of ideas:

• Gourmet soup with secret ingredients (2–3–3)


• Soup to eat after exercising (like Gatorade®) (4–5–3)


• Soup cans with pictures of famous mothers (5–1–5)


• A chicken soup can with a Sterno®container built into the bottom (6–5–4)


• Soup cans with prizes inside (1–6–4)

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