101 Great Games and Activities

Creativity

Belt It Out

Objectives

• To demonstrate the need to view problems from different perspectives
• To practice fluent idea generation

Uses

The activity is useful to train participants in the creative-thinking process.

Audience

Any

Time

Five to ten minutes

Handouts, Materials, and Equipment

• An overhead projector and transparencies or a flip chart and markers
• Paper and pens or pencils for participants

Procedure

1. Write the word “BELT” in large letters on a transparency or flip-chart pad.
2. Hand out paper and pencils and ask the participants to generate all the different uses they can think of for an unlimited supply of belts and to write them ...