Draw Toast

Activity Summary

This is a short creative exercise. Students must simply draw the process of making toast and then discuss their drawings.

Activity Plan

2 min

Each student should have a piece of paper (A4) and a pen/pencil. Students are asked to draw the process of making a toast.

5 min

Without using words, students must draw the process of making toast, step- by-step for someone who has never made toast before. Ready, get set, go!

They can have as many goes as they can within 5 mins.

5 min

Show them off! Students work in groups to discuss the following questions:

How was that? Challenging? Easy?
How are the illustrations similar?
In what ways do they differ?
What is the number of steps in your drawing?
Was drawing the steps of how to make toast more complex than you thought?
How do you think this exercise relates to your project/thinking creatively?
Did anyone think outside the box?

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
Sounded simple, right? If drawing toast is challenging, then understanding/ exploring your topic/project/subject must be pretty complex!
By breaking challenges into steps, it helps you understand it better.
This activity can be adapted to the students having to draw another type of simple process – what would be fun for them to draw?

Less than 10 minutes

Problem-solve

Group, Individual

Setup and materials

Pen, paper

Intended Learning Outcomes

Creative thinking

Metacognitive skill of self and peer -evaluation (through group discussion)

Pillars insight

Creativity

Students will activate their creative thinking by engaging in this short activity.

Co-creation

Although this is primarily an individual activity, it could be adapted so that students work in pairs or groups.

Well-being

This activity is a fun exercise that should spark excitement and enthusiasm amongst students.

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