Circle Creativity Game
Creativity | Ice breaking | Remote
Group: Any
Time: 5-10 min
Space: At table(s)
Energy: Medium
#divergent thinking, #sketching
When & What
This activity can be used as a warm-up for a session needing creativity, eg an ideation workshop. It was created as a test by psychologists, but rather than using it to judge an individual’s initial creative abilities, you can use it as a way to identify our natural creative weaknesses and highlight how working as a group increases the number of solutions.
In this activity everyone will individually draw as many solutions as they can think of within a minute, and it works with any sized group.
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Preparation
- Download the template with 30 circles and print one copy for each participant.
Steps
- Ensure everyone has a printed sheet with 30 circles and a pen.
- Give the group 1 minute to create as many figures/objects out of the circles as they can (eg making a circle a globe, a sun or a smiley).
- Once the time is up, discuss the different result in terms of:
- Fluency — the number of different alternate uses.
- Flexibility — the number of different types or categories.
- Originality — how unusual or unique the uses are.
Debrief
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What you need
Template and pens
Timing
Creator
Ellis Paul Torrance
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