101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

69. That’s the Ticket!

Background

This activity is “the ticket” to enhancing your group’s creativity. And it’s well worth the

price of admission. All you have to do is turn in your tickets and watch the ideas flow. It’s

as simple as that. That’s the Ticket! is a relatively uncomplicated brainstorming variation I

developed as another form of brainwriting (that is, ideas are generated silently and in writ-

ing), which has been shown to result in more ideas than traditional brainstorming activities.

Objectives

• To help participants generate as many creative ideas as possible


• To help participants learn how to use the activities to generate ideas

Participants

Small groups of four to seven people each

Materials, Supplies, and Equipment

• For each group: markers, two flip charts, and masking tape for posting flip-chart
  sheets


• For each participant: one sheet each of three different colors of sticking dots
  (^1 ⁄ 2 ” diameter) and one pad of 4 x 6 Post-it®Notes


• As many blank paper tickets as there are participants (the same size as movie theater
  tickets, approximately one inch by three inches) available at novelty stores and party
  shops (Tickets can also be cut from blank pieces of paper or index cards)

Handout

• That’s the Ticket! Handout

Time

20 minutes

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