If you want a quick activity to help your group gain confidence in drawing and creativity together, then look no further.

How to do it

Make sure everyone has something to draw with (like a marker or pen), and something to draw on (at least one piece of blank office paper). Project or share a slide that displays this picture of 6 geometric shapes (download the image below), and ask everybody to draw a duck using just these 6 shapes.



This is really fast! Set a 1-minute timer. Be sure to let everybody know that there is no right or wrong; there are loads of different ways you can ‘arrange’ these shapes in the form of a duck. Or at least something that looks a bit like a duck!

Once the 1 minute is up, ask everybody to hold up their picture, and then look at each others’ pictures. Ask: what’s something you notice about all the pictures? You’re pretty much guaranteed that somebody will say “They’re all different!”. Ask your group about something they can take from this activity into the rest of the workshop. The ‘lesson’ here – especially leading into a workshop about generating ideas – is that there will be loads of different ideas that can solve the problem, and your group should be open to that.

Variations

This activity is based on the LEGO Serious Play ”˜Build a Duck’ activity. Drawing a duck on paper suits either in-person or remote (online) meetings. If you are meeting online, encourage all participants to have their video camera turned on, then ask everybody to hold their drawing up to their cameras at the end.

Source: LEGO Serious Play

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