What's your name?
How old are you?
Do you have any weird habbits/ likes/ dislikes etc...? What are they?
Weird and creative are similar characteristics. Do you agree?
How do you understand the phrase 'creative thinking'?
Can you say that you think creatively? Why (not)?
Do you think it's good to be a creative thinker? Why(not)?
Think of 5 new words and their meanings. For example: 'strangemarket' – the supermarket where you canbuy strange unusual things.
Let's check the definition of 'creative thinking:
thinking about problems in a new way. (Cambridge dictionary)
productive thinking that results in new, rather than routine results. (Oxford Dictionary)
the mental processes leading to a new invention, solution, or synthesis in any area. ( American Psycological Assosiation Dictionary)
- What is common between them?
- Do you think it's useful to develop creative thinking? Why?
Read and find out.
Why is it good to develop creative thinking?
When we create, we have the opportunity to connect with the world without judging ourselves. It’s similar to what we felt when we were a child. Back then we didn’t care what people thought of us.
We start to think with our ego as we use our own thoughts, feelings and beliefs. This creates illusions and mistakes in our ideas, but we can learn to put those aside and deeply learn about ourselves.
Maybe right now, you don’t present ideas or your ideas get shut down. By tapping into creative thinking, we can build our confidence in our ideas and start to contribute to the group and our work at large.
'What if' questions is a good way to develop unusual ways of thinking.
Try to use your imagination and think about interesting details.
For example:
-What if pigs could fly?
- If pigs could fly....:
* there WOULD be groups of pigs flying in the sky
* we WOULD hear the oinking everywhere.
* and pigs would sit in the trees and break them
* and they would poop on people from the sky.
You'll have 2 words: a profession and usual object. You should discuss:
1. What qualities should this worker have ? What does he do at his work every day?
2. How unusually can you use this object ? (Brainstorm the options and choose 3 the most creative ones.)
3. How can this worker use this object in his work? (Brainstorm the options and choose 3 the most creative ones.)
( Be ready to present your creative ideas to thegroup)
Let's practice together 1st .
Droodles are simple pictures which can be associated with different things and objects. 2 people may see completely different things in them. Droodles develop creative assosiations and motivate brainwork.
Let's play. Look at the picture what can you see in it?
Useful phrases:
It looks like (a) …
It seems to be ( a) …
I would say it's (a)...
My guess is that …
I imagine …
It might be …
As I see it …
Discuss these droodles and write down the most creative ideas. Be ready to present them.
( Teacher sends the pictures to the chat of each mini group)
You will get 6 words from the word generator. You'll need to make a story with all of them.
It's a great training for your artistic creativity. The idea is that you have a set of shapes and you need to add a drawing to them to create small pictures. Like in this example.
