101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

Related Activities

• Picture Tickler [17]


• Rorschach Revisionist [18]


• Ideatoons [26]


• Doodles [37]


• Modular Brainstorming [62]

Procedure

1. Tell each group member to draw, individually, a picture representing a solution to
   the problem. Say that the picture may be either abstract or realistic and that artis-
   tic talent is not important.


2. When they have finished, tell them to tape their pictures to the walls or on a flip
   chart.


3. Instruct all participants from all groups to walk around the room and examine the
   drawings just as people would do in a museum. As group members examine the
   pictures, tell them to write down on Post-it®Notes any comments or new ideas
   triggered.


4. Instruct each group to reconvene and share their ideas, in turn, and try to think of
   any new ideas.


5. Tell them to write down any ideas on Post-it®Notes (one idea per note) and place
   them on flip charts for evaluation.

Debrief/Discussion

Participants don’t need artistic talent for this exercise. In fact, this activity may work

extremely well for visual thinkers who can play off of visual stimuli to help trigger ideas.

Because some drawings may be more abstract than others, encourage participants to dis-

cuss whether they found more value in concrete or abstract drawings, or if it even made a

difference.

Also consider having participants debrief using the following questions:

• What was most helpful about this exercise?


• What was most challenging?


• What can we apply?


• How would you rate the value of this exercise to helping us with this issue?


• Will this exercise be helpful in the future for other sessions?


• What did you learn?


• What will we be able to use from this exercise?


• What ideas were generated, and which ones were most interesting?

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