[Imagination Club] Challenge: boosting kids' creativity

[MaulikDave at torrentpharma.com]

I think of setting different groups based on children's interest. For 
example,
there will be one group for who are good in painting, another in sports, 
another
in story writers/tellers.

Painting group will be assigned to draw a pictures of the object they have 
never
seen before. Instructor will explain the object orally. All children will 
be positioned 
such a way so they can not see each other's work. After the completion, it 
will
put on display and sport group can come and rank the pictures.

Sports group will be assigned to develop new rules to make any existing 
sport game 
interesting. Lets say instructor will ask them to work on baseball. They 
will have to
invent new rules and then they will play it with new rules. Same group can 
be
assigned another project to develop rules for completely new sport game 
and play
with other groups too.

Story writers group's assignment can be similar to painting group. Or may 
be they
will be told to create a story on most ranked picture. After the 
completion, each
individual will come on stage and will tell their story.

If you have noticed, sports team had chance to work as team. Other two 
groups
had to work individually. Well, most of the sports game requires teamwork, 
but
painting or story writing activity never seen as team activity. Why not?? 
We can
introduce some teamwork in these two activities too.

For painting group, there will be one big blank canvas. First child 
(randomly selected)
will come and draw something on it in one minute time. Then second child 
will add
something in canvas in another one minute time. At end, we can have 
completely
unpredicted artwork.

For story writer's group first child will write 5 lines and will pass it 
on to another child.
That one too will add another 5 lines of his story and so on. At end, 
instructor will read
the story to all groups. (inspiration source for this particular idea is 
Note Book Exercise
described in Report-103 of Tuesday, 16 August 2005 - Issue 64)

Thanks & Regards,
MD

For the benefits of new members, introduction to myself: I am Maulik Dave 
from
Ahmedabad, India. I am a website developer. I believe TEAM stands for,
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Most of our challenges lately have been business oriented, 
so here's a more social/educational challenge...

You've been assigned to create a workshop to help younger 
children - let's say 10-12 year olds - in your community 
improve their creative thinking skills. What kind of 
activities do you offer and how will you structure the 
workshop?

Jeffrey Baumgartner
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