Creative Challenge 7

    This Week I chose a group activity that I found both fun and helpful with necessitating the creativity that once flowed abundantly but but seemingly died. It's called 1 X 5 strategy. You take 5 young students and provide them with an object.  The object can be anything from a writing utensil, to a piece of paper or even a random toy, etc. 

    Then you ask the first student to physically change one thing about the object  

    Next, you have the student pass the object to the next student in the circle and you ask the student to also change one thing about the object. This is repeated until all the students have had a turn 

Once all students have changed and modified the item one time, you ask the students to reflect on the object How was it transformed? How does it appear now, compared to how it looked before the changes were made to it?  Have the students think about all the possible uses for the object now vs. before. 

    This exercise encourages the students to think outside the box. It also helps teach students the importance of working together. When you work with 4 or 5 people who are contributing their perspective and their ideas they have to work together to come up with a single idea that incorporates all input provided. In turn, this teaches students to work together as team players and as a group to achieve something that all agree on while simultaneously sharpening their active listening and communication skills. These skills are incredibly important assets when working in almost any industry, especially in Graphic arts and design.  

I found this exercise as well as other helpful exercises on  https://artsintegration.com/creative-thinking-activities/