creativity gymnastics x dix (which is french for 10, but is our new word for thursday)

Creativity Building Activities

(ACTIVE is part of “Activities”)

Lie down — flat on your back— close your eyes— open your eyes— look up…
turn over — look down or around.
REALLY look but don’t describe anything until the next day when, after you close your eyes again, write down what you heard or smelled on day one, NOT what you saw.

Take out one word you use frequently from your vocabulary. Substitute another word. Look it up in another language….For a day, several days. Home=abode, Pickup= Draggin’ Wagon, table=mi mesa, etc…. doesn’t have to be complicated or clever, just different. Hell yes, get out the Thesaurus.

Call someone you know by another name— not a harmful name, for goodness sake, but a different name. We used to call our children “george” regardless of gender or actual name. Without the capital “G.”A george was an inhabitant who needed to get something done. As in, “Okay, george, time to clean up.” Substitute an uplifting name. We are happily known as “Pumpkins” from time to time. We suggest “Beauty”

Pick a color— make it a taste.

Turn a framed picture or photo in your home upside down for at least a day. Do you still like it? Why or why not?

Write 10 words using only the hand you don’t normally use.

Draw a plan of your home or room from the viewpoint of a bird looking down.

Record your voice saying three things you love.

Measure objects in a room using yourself as the measure: The door is 1 1/3 Beauties tall… the cabinets are half a Beauty wide…
Could be parts of yourself! Horses are still measured in hands!

Spread some flour or sugar on a flat surface like a countertop or table and spend 10 minutes or using both hands to doodle in the surface.