This is a great warm-up before a creative session. It can also be a way to highlight that collaboration can lead to unexpected and pretty awesome outcomes. No drawing skills required!

The group builds on top of each other’s squiggles to create a final picture. Works with any size of group, as long as you have enough time and colourful pens to go around.

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Steps

1. Ensure that everyone has a piece of paper (A4 size works well) and a pen.
2. Ask everyone to draw 2 squiggles anywhere on the page.
3. Once everyone is done, they put their drawing face down in the middle of the table.
4. Everyone picks a paper from the pile (make sure no one gets their own squiggle drawing).
5. Now ask everyone to make 2 objects of the two different squiggles.
6. Once completed, everyone hands their drawing to the person to the right.
7. The last step is for everyone to create a story around the two objects on the paper they picked — drawing a scene with as much colour and as many objects as they like.
8. Encourage everybody to make up a title for their masterpiece.
9. Go around the table and let everyone share what story they came up with.

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Variation of activity by William J Kreidler