The Big Draw - running a staff drawing event

Last week I was involved with planning and running a 'Big Draw' event for staff at the university one lunchtime. Along with some colleagues we planned a series of team games and activities to provide 'a new perspective on drawing'.

Games underway - everyone drawing

Inviting eight teams of 3 along to our creativity centre for an hour, they played a describing game, speed Pictionary and some doodle challenges. We also had some other non-competitive activities - the sign-in poster, drawastickman.com and a flipchart paper version of consequences.

The Creativity Centre - flexible learning space allows us to move the writeable walls
and projectors to design the playing areas as we wish

Although not convinced we actually lived up to the 'new perspectives' we promised the feedback was that people really enjoyed the session and definitely did some team bonding, as well as thinking about communication skills.

One of the big hits of the session - 'put yourself in the picture' sign-in poster

The winning doodle of 'Critical Thinking'

 For those interested, there is a fuller set of photos and description of the games on Facebook.