• Establish creative confidence; collaborate effortlessly; build capacity for working together as a workshop-group.

Materials Needed

• Felt markers one for each participant
• Paper or blank postcards

Step By Step Instructions

1. Prepare for the activity by asking participants to sit around a table in a circle. 
2. Hand out a sheet of paper or postcard & a marker to each participant. Markers in identical color and size – not too thick & not too thin –  cater for better results. 
3. Introduce the activity by saying the following words: 

   We will create something together here in the next few minutes. I will direct you through a sequence of simple tasks. Please do as instructed and – especially in the last two steps – don’t do more than is asked.

4. Give the instructions as : 

• Draw a form – pass your paper on to the left (or right – stick to one direction)
  
• Make something out of the form you got from your neighbor (an object or a person, an animal) – pass your paper on
  
• Add context to the paper you got from your neighbor – pass your paper on
  
• Add action or drama to the paper you got. Refrain from using text, this will be another step! – pass on
  
• Add text

Activity Variations

1. Do the impro-part at the begin of an event and use empty post-cards as paper; let people pick one design at the end & let them write their address on the back; swap again among participants and let them write a postcard with insights/ things they want to share with the person.
2. Play a certain song during the doodling e.g you can play festive songs and you might end up with interesting holiday postcards.

Tips for running this activity online

• Choose an online whiteboard tool that allows you to use a large, zoomable canvas.
• Create a sticky note for each participant and arrange these in a circle, with space underneath for an image. Arrange people in groups of five where possible.
• In the first step, have participants draw their first image and add it below their name tag in the whiteboard.
• For the following steps, each person will drag their image and pass it to the next person in the circle.
• When facilitating full group discussion, we recommend that participants use non-verbal means to indicate they’d like to speak. 
• If you’re not using an online whiteboard, we recommend using a collaboration tool such as Google Docs to place and pass your images, create a heading for each participant under which they place their image.
• Alternatively, you can use Slack and have each player private message their image to the next player at each step.