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BRAIN GAMES

You can improve your creative
What if...?
skills by following exercises
Exercise your creative streak and
designed to make you look come up with the most imaginative
at ideas and problems in story you can to complete the
different ways. So try thesse following scenarios:
games and let your ǩ What if we didn’t sleep?
imagination run free! ǩ What if your house could speak?
ǩ What if we could go on vacation in space?
ǩ What if our eyes were in our kneecaps?
ǩ What if we could breathe underwater?
Novel story
Use your imagination and
think of ways of combining
all the following words into
a funny story or poem:

purple, sheep, chips, string,
g
chair, summit, apple, screw,
w
tie, smile

CREATIVE

EXERCISES

Clip art
Can you think of 30 different Unusual crossing!
ways of using a paper clip Imagine that you are stranded
other than for holding papers on one side of a lake, your
together? Write down as many friend is on the other, and you
as you can in ten minutes. want to get to your friend.
The crazier, the better. Set yourself a time limit of
Ready, set, go! an interesting crossing!
five minutes and write down
as many ways you can think
of to cross the lake. See what
ideas your friends come up
with, too. It could make for

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