Given: Each team member gets approximately one quarter of a cup of clay. They have two minutes to make anything about which they may tell a story. The first member starts their story and the second member adds to it using his or her clay creation as a prop. The team has two minutes to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Given: a 12″ long piece of aluminum foil for each member of the team. Team members are given 5 minutes to create something out of the foil. Creations are scored for creativity on a scale of 1 to 10. (Teams who watch each other and create objects based on a theme should be scored higher.) […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Given: envelope, ping pong ball, gym shoe, small empty paper bag, 2 straws, tennis ball, roll of masking tape. In five minutes, the team must construct a sculpture using every item, connected with masking tape. They must then tell the name of the sculpture and what it represents. The score will be based on creativity […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Given: paper bag, chair, broom, straws, paper, string, sticky labels, yardstick, 2″x 2″ piece of tape, marker, scissors. Set up a 20″ x 10″ rectangle as the starting point. Five feet away, set up another rectangle the same size along with the items listed above. The object of the problem is to move an egg […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Given: a piece of poster board, markers, a chain, a cotton ball, 2 Kleenex, a pen, a blender blade, a tupperware lid, a glove, a newspaper ad. Using the materials provided, create a treasure map leading to the most important part of life. Print PDF
Given: gum drops, toothpicks. Build a structure and describe each others’ creations. Print PDF
Shape a piece of Play-dough into a “voodoo” doll, and each team member must predict the future of another member’s doll. Print PDF
Given: 2 pencils, 6 oz clay (3-2 0z. balls), 10 straws, 3-8.2″x11″ sheets of tagboard, 20 pieces of dry macaroni, 12 inches of masking tape, 2 Styrofoam cups, 4 large marshmallows, 5 toothpicks, 1 golf ball. This is a two part problem. Part one: the team is given 2 minutes to think and 5 minutes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Given: pieces of gingerbread, tubes and cans of icing, sprinkles, etc., M&M’s, mint marshmallows, gumdrops, plastic knives, toothpicks. The team has 30 minutes to create a gingerbread house that stands up. They then have time to tell a story about the house. Print PDF
Given: 1 bag of coconut, 1 serving tray. You will have one minute to think and experiment and three minutes to respond. Your problem is to shape the coconut and say what the shape represents. Team members may give a different response to the same shape, or reshape it and give a different response, however, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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