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Re: icbreakers

From: croberts (croberts)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2000 - 17:59:29 PDT

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    I just came back from a workshop for high school Arts teachers (including
    drama, music, and visual art) and we had a GREAT icebreaker. They had large
    pieces of Kraft paper or the brown wrapping paper.

    Instructions: Find someone you do NOT know and the two of you work on this
    together. First one person lays down on the paper with just their upper
    body on the paper...the other person uses a large marker and draws around
    that person...not close enough to get marker on their clothes. Then they
    swap. Then they cut out the shapes of the other person...and using the
    marker they have to find out 10 facts about that person and write them on
    the paper.

    Well...naturally the visual arts people did better...because we all "drew"
    our facts in pictures or symbols and the others wrote their in words...

    It was really neat...some had dogs drawn on the paper for their pets, some
    had palettes and brushes with dripping paint, one drew a NC map outline and
    put a dot to indicate which city the person was from...one drew a "father,
    mother, and two children" very basically and added the names....and so on...

    A good idea...I have hundreds more from an "ice breaker workshop" I once
    attended...but would have to think more...I'm "about brain dead" after all
    the work we've done this week.
    Carolyn Roberts

    >Does anyone have suggestions for fun, art-related icebreakers to do with
    >high school students? I am teaching a portfolio prep class beginning next
    >week, and while I am reviewing individual portfolios, I would like to
    >have the other students engaged in a sort of "getting to know you" game
    >that isnt dorky. I would prefer that the game somehow involved drawing.
    >
    >Any ideas??
    >
    >Dawn Wilson
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