Originality

How many uses can you think of for a paper clip? a brick ?

What uses can you think of for waste materials such as  plastic bags, newspapers, empty bottles, old pieces of carpet, wire, pieces of wood?

How many things can you think of that are red or perhaps square or transparent (or use your own example).

How many words can you think of that start with P and can you make up a sentence using a lot of them?  This can be done in any language.

1. Arrange Matches to make six squares in a single row.         

Now remove four matches to leave three squares 

2. Use six matches to create four triangles

Learners make drawings from scribbles you make on paper. 

Arrange a sequence of pictures that tell the beginning of a story. Ask learners to draw pictures to finish the story as they imagine it.

Think of some useful but magical inventions to help me (their teacher) - such as a sweet that turns children's ears green when they are naughty, or a machine that can mark books. Ask them to draw it.

Comparison

What similarities are there between the following things:-

• Your mother and ice cream 
• a book and your brother/sister
• your teacher and a rose    
• your friend and a tree

Now to be a really creative teacher, you can make up your own creativity exercises!