This is an exercise my sister developed for the girls at the safe house.
Each participant has a piece of paper and access to a set of markers. Take turns announcing shapes, and drawing them in a repetitive pattern on your page. Don't look to see what your partner is doing and you will be AMAZED by the variety of the results.
I know as I was drawing mine, there were definitely moments when I was thinking, "Oh, she MUST be doing this", and yet I think there was literally NO shape we treated the same.
Since it's 4 a.m. I don't have much to speculate on in the way of practical applications for this game from a teaching standpoint... but I'm excited
to think of ways to incorporate it into the classroom!
...Now it just needs a name...
Can you guess who drew which pic?
I'm so touched that you would use this in a blog...although...I kinda thought you might! ;)
ReplyDeleteWow, I really didn't get my photo centered, did I? Oops. So, I have determined, that you ARE WAY BETTER at the * than I am! Mine look more like koosh-balls! I love comparing the two! I hope we can play again soon! =)
ReplyDeleteNeat! As far as improv goes, it could be a good way to demonstrate how you can get many different outcomes (scenes) from the same sequence of offers -- and all of them are wonderful in their own unique way.
ReplyDeletethey remind me of Kaleidoscope images, so maybe name it after that?
Kaleidoscope, I love that as a name! What do you think, Kristal?
ReplyDeleteYour * have eight legs, mine have six...
Sounds good to me! Also, letters, numbers, etc. work great in this too...so if you are doing it with students, they can personalize it! Name, age, etc, dob. etc =)
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