Draw an Apple
Activity Summary
This is a short creative exercise. Students must simply draw an apple and then discuss their drawings.
Activity Plan
1
2 min
Each student should have a piece of paper (A4) and a pen/pencil. Students are asked to draw an apple. Give the students 1-2 mins to complete their drawing.
2
5 min
Ask the students to put up their hand if their drawing of an apple looked something like the first image on the left (below). Then ask the students if anyone drew their apple from a different perspective – using the images on the right (below) to spark their curiosity and creativity.
3
5 min
Show the drawings off! Students work in groups to discuss the following questions:
- How was that? Challenging? Easy?
- Are your drawings similar?
- In what ways do they differ?
- What does this show us?
- What can we learn about creativity from this exercise?
- What does this activity show us about developing solutions?
- How do you think this exercise relates to your project/thinking creatively?
- Did anyone think outside the box?
4
5 min
One student from each group can give feedback to the teacher/class to summarize/evaluate how students in their group got on. Opportunity here for teacher/students to discuss the purpose behind the activity (i.e. to active creative thinking).
Tips & Tricks
- This is a creativity warm-up exercise; its purpose is to encourage ‘outside the box’ thinking and to help students get into a creative mindset. This exercise should spark original thinking, fun, curiosity and enthusiasm in students encouraging them to practice this mindset throughout the lesson.
- It can be used as a ‘hook’ at the beginning of a lesson or as creative break during a lesson if students are becoming disengaged or tired.
- Warm-up & attention-grabbing exercise.
- Activity can be adapted so that students can work in pairs or groups