ID 003 - What Would Happen?



What Would Happen?

This exercise is designed to help you think laterally and discover new ways of looking at the world. Answer these questions using creative and constructive thinking. You can use as much detail as you like. For fun, try to think of your own “What Would Happen?” questions!

What would happen if

• there were suddenly no computers, tablets, or phones of any kind anywhere on Earth?

• we had to live in a world without electricity?

• you woke up one morning to discover you had changed into a cartoon character?

• all the animals in the world could suddenly communicate with us in our language?

• you discovered your best friend was a superhero?



ID 002 - 1001 Ways

This is a brainstorming exercise. The class writes everyday objects on slips of paper and places all the slips in a box. You each draw a slip from the box, and the activity begins on a 15 min. timer. You must now come up with as many new uses for your object as you can. Write them down or sketch them out on a paper – be as creative as you can! (You can also do this exercise in pairs or groups)

My Object:



ID 001 - You Name it

Answer each question for each list below. To make it more challenging, try answering as quickly as you can against another person.

Name 3 people that:

1. Talk more than you

2. Talk less than you

3. Work hard

4. You think are smart

5. Wear costumes

6. Are teachers

7. Travel a lot

8. Are always nice to you

9. Have a job you’d love to do

10. Are very creative

Name 3 places that:

1. Have good food

2. You would like to visit

3. Have lots of mountains

4. Are always warm

5. You don’t want to visit ever

6. Are not on Earth

7. Have a lot of technology

8. People haven’t fought in wars

9. Have a lot of pollution

10. Are famous all over the world

Name 3 things that:

1. Are square

2. Are orange

3. Smell good

4. Live in the water

5. Taste terrible

6. You enjoy doing

7. You don’t enjoy doing

8, People read

9. You see at school every day

10. Scare you



VI 006 - Awesome Anagrams

Anagrams are words and sentences that can be written in different ways to obtain more words or groups of words. Create new words by rearranging the letters in the ones below – some can be tricky!

Answer Key

Spear

• pares
• parse
• pears
• reaps
• spare

Reward

• drawer
• redraw
• warder
• warred

Least

• slate
• stale
• steal
• tales
• teals

Reins

• resin
• rinse
• risen
• siren

Paste

• tapes
• peats
• septa
• spate

Mister

• merits
• miters
• mitres
• remits
• timers

Traces

• carets
• caters
• caster
• crates
• reacts
• recast

Plates

• palest
• palets
• pastel
• petals
• pleats
• septal
• staple
• tepals

Spread

• drapes
• padres
• parsed
• rasped
• spader
• spared

Post

• opts
• pots
• stop
• tops

Player

• parley
• pearly
• replay

Name

• amen
• mane
• mean

Skate

• stake
• steak
• takes
• teaks

Snap

• naps
• pans
• span

Leap

• pale
• peal
• plea

Parties

• pastier
• pirates
• traipse

Rates

• aster
• stare
• taser
• tears

Restrain

• retrains
• strainer
• terrains
• trainers

Pass

• asps
• saps
• spas

Team

• mate
• meat
• tame

East

• eats
• sate
• seat
• teas



VI 005 - Meanings in Mind

Write one sentence to explain what each common image or symbol means to you. The idea here is to move away from conventional meanings and relate to the images personally.



VI 004 - Crazy Captions

Put in your creative wording for each of these images. You can write some dialog between the characters, write a single-line caption, or turn the image into a clever meme. Keep it short and witty!



VI 003 - 4/9 Connect

Connect these 9 dots using only four lines, and without lifting your pencil from the paper. (Hint: Think beyond real and imaginary boundaries with this puzzle.)

Answer Key

Start experimenting with lines that extend outside the square, and the answer comes quickly. Here is a solution: if the dots are numbered 1 through 9 from left to right, draw a line from dot 1 through 5 to 9, then up through 6 and 3 and outside of the box, then back down through 2 and 4, then right through 7 and 8. This will allow you to create other solutions based on these rules.