One of the handiest tools in my teacher bag of tricks is BRAINSTORMING. This tool will help you gain an enormous amount of ideas to pick from as you plan your camp. Put aside your preconceived ideas about how to brainstorm and let me show you the way I taught it to kids. It's simple, but may be different than you think. First, read through the guidelines slowly. 1. Think of lots of ideas...as many as possible. 2. No judging. Don't stop to evaluate each idea. 3. Wild and crazy ideas are great. 4. Piggyback on ideas. Let one idea lead to another. The hardest guideline to remember is No Judging because you'll want to try to decide if each idea is going to work or not. BUT refrain from doing that. Your brain will stop storming if you let yourself get distracted. Now, indulge me for 2 minutes as you practice. Take a piece of paper and write the word RED at the top. Get a timer and set it for 2 minutes. You are going to write as many things as you can that are RED, or related to RED, before the timer goes off. Ready. Set. Go! How'd it go? Did you come up with lots of ideas? Hint: get someone to help you add to the list, or better yet, ask them to join you as you try this with your theme. That's what's next. Take a new piece of paper and write your theme at the top. Set a timer for 2 minutes. Write as many ideas as you can. You'll want to let your list hibernate for a few weeks, but do add to it as something crosses your mind. Also, if you are tech-literate...do a google or Pinterest search on your theme, The ideas there are endless! Free brainstorm page! go too...
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