Free-Range Doodling

OBJECTIVES

Through this Spark, participants will…

• use nonsense ideas to spark ideas for silly poems or stories
• use nonsense ideas to create art
• be able to develop their own list of nonsensical ideas
• use the given list and/or their own list to think in different ways

TARGET AUDIENCE

• children, ages 5-18
• adults

SUPPLIES FOR THIS SPARK

• Notebook or journal
• Pencil or pen
• Eraser
• Drawing paper
• Tools to add color, such as markers or colored pencils or watercolors

DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES FOR THIS SPARK

FEATURED QUOTATION

“Only those who attempt the absurd…will achieve the impossible.”

M.C. Escher, artist