Most of the people find it difficult to recall the last time they explored their imaginative power. In this fast-paced life, we find people becoming mechanical and stopping the use of their creative skills quite often. However, exploring and refreshing your imaginative skills becomes vital, especially when you want to take a break from the drudgery of everyday life. To do this, you need to give food to your brain and indulge in some creative activity. Read on to explore some interesting creative thinking activities and exercises, which can help you rejuvenate your hidden imaginative power.
Creative Thinking Activity And Exercise Ideas
Relate The Objects
- Get two things, (edible or non-edible), which are related to each other. For instance, you can take a strawberry and a cake for the purpose.
- Supply yourself with a paper and a pen.
- Write down the relation between the two things, after describing each of them separately.
- The idea is to brainstorm, in order to correlate the two things, and bring as many connections between the two objects as possible.
- The best way to do this exercise is to set a time limit for yourself. If you put such activities into practice, you will be able to generate ideas quickly.
Figure Out Different Meanings
- One of the creative thinking activities, which can prove to be food for the brain, is to add random alphabets to a word and change its meaning completely.
- For example, you can take a noun, say the name of a pet animal, like dog.
- Now, use prefixes and suffixes, at random, in order to create meaningful words, each having different meaning. For instance, you can add 'ma' to dog and generate the 'dogma'.
- Set a time limit, say 15 seconds, within which you have to figure out as many new words as possible. Not only will this exercise increase your vocabulary, but also improve the skill of correlating things.
Expand The Word
- This activity is best suited if you want to increase your vocabulary.
- Derive as many meaningful words as possible (each containing at least three letters) from a long word, say 'independence'.
- Explore long, difficult words (having thirteen to fourteen alphabets) that you have never heard of before and try to derive new meaningful words out of them.
- You can increase the level of difficulty, by exploring little-known words. Make use of a thesaurus for the purpose.
