Off to a good start
You are wondering how to get off to a good start in your next workshop. Or you are looking for a different, surprising way to start your next meeting. Perhaps you have been asking yourself how you can push your team’s creative boundaries, or you feel meetings could benefit from fun breaks to bring people closer together with an entertaining exercise that gets everyone talking. A simple task with 6 simple building blocks will do the job for you. Try it out and see how people’s creativity is getting the better of them, and you.
How to play
The duck challenge rules
- Make sure you have a timer at hand.
- Hand out a set of 6 bricks to each person in your group.
- All participants place their 6 bricks in front of them.
- Explain: The goal is to build a duck in 30 seconds from these 6 bricks.
... start the challenge:
- Set the timer to 30 seconds.
- Ready, steady, go: 30 seconds to build the duck.
- When the timer stops, everyone stops building.
- Send us your photo and take a look at other ducks.
Different folks, different strokes
Ask all the players to put the ducks on one table. How many different versions are there? How many are the same? There are probably going to be as many different ducks as there are duck builders or teams. The team/s will be amazed at how many different ducks there are. There is no limit to creativity, even with the simplest of elements or ingredients.
