Grade:

Grades 3-5, Middle

Setup:

Teams of 3

Objective:

Divide your group of students into teams of three. Each person on the team has one of the following roles:

• Drawer. The Drawer attempts to recreate a pre-drawn design they cannot see. They take directions from the Talker. They stand with their back to the Talker and the Viewer and may not talk.
• Talker. The Talker describes the design to the Drawer, without seeing the design. They may question the Viewer. They may not use hand gestures.
• Viewer. The Viewer sees the design. However, they are not allowed to talk and must communicate nonverbally to the Talker. Additionally, they must not draw the design in the air or actually show the design with their gestures.

The activity ends when the Viewers say they are satisfied with the drawings. You can have the Talkers vote for which image looks the most like the one they were trying to recreate (hint: don’t let them know which drawing belongs to their team).  

(Note: If you have uneven teams, you can have that student draw the original artwork that will be recreated.  Or you can draw them yourselves before you start the game, or you can have the art drawn on the whiteboard with the Drawers already in place, with their backs to the board.)