Draw the word game

Fun drawing games are a lifesaver when you need to pass some time or want to connect with your kids on a creative level. My 9-year old invented this drawing game over brunch, and it entertained the two of us for the entire meal. Dessert included.

“Draw the Word” encourages imaginative thinking, writing, and playful drawing. Not only is it a great exercise in creativity, but it’s also a wonderful way to connect, bond, and get to know others better.

The supplies are crazy simple, so you can easily play this on the fly or when you’re out at a restaurant or waiting room. Here’s what you’ll need:

Supplies

Marker or pencil (one per player)

Paper (one per player)

How to Play

• Each player divides a paper into four sections.
• Players come up with themes for each of the four sections and write down words that correspond with the theme. For example, if the theme is place, a player could write “beach” or “Mexico.”
• Players switch papers and draw interpretations of the words on their new paper.
• Share responses and be ready to laugh and swap stories.

In the following game, the themes we started with were good, plant, household item, and wild card (anything goes). I wrote the words on the left (my daughter drew the images) and she wrote the words on the right (I drew the images).

Can you guess the themes in this game?

Answer at the bottom of this post 🙂

There you have it: a non-competitive cooperative drawing game that’s designed to support play and connection.

More Art Games

If you’re looking for more Art Games, check out our popular monthly art challenge, TinkerSketch. Each day is a different word prompt. Give yourself 5-10 minutes to interpret each prompt in a medium of your choice. For the most current challenge, go to our home page and scroll down to find this month’s challenge. Join anytime!

Art Dice are one of my favorites: cover each side of a dice with different colors, lines, or shapes. Roll the dice and draw what you see. A fun exercise in serendipity and improvisation.

One-minute drawings is a fun exercise. Take ten pieces of small paper and give yourself a minute to draw on each one.

If you’re looking for art board games, see how you can play Cranium with non-readers and read our essential Creativity Games Gift Guide.

Feedback or questions?

Join me in our online art and creativity community on Facebook in Club TinkerLab. 

Answer to the theme question: liquid, fire, ocean, wild card

Improve your artistic and puzzle-solving skills at the same time while playing Drawar.io! This is one of the less conventional titles on Kevin Games: several players join a lobby and take turns drawing secret words assigned by the AI. While one person is drawing, the others watch the process in real time and take guesses as to what that might be.

The playing area is separated into several parts: the drawing board is at the top, the chat is underneath it at the bottom and the list of players is to the right. The drawing is done with the mouse, while the guesses are supposed to be submitted to the chat just like regular messages – if your guess is correct it will be hidden from everyone else until the round ends.

The gameplay of Drawar io is based on communication: it teaches you to find ways to express yourself, even if your options are limited. To make the guessing a little easier the game displays the number of characters in the current word, and if someone types in the wrong answer, their suggestion is shown to the chat so that the others wouldn’t have to repeat that mistake. Work together to uncover the mystery or try your best to draw the best representation of the word you’ve been given to make every Drawar.io game as fun as possible!

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Instructions

1. Ask participants to get into small groups of four to five people and to choose a name for their group/team.
2. Explain that in the activity they will be competing in teams. You will give one person in each team an Article from the UDHR to draw. The others in the team have to guess which right it is. The team that guesses first scores a point. The team with the most points at the end wins.
3. Tell the teams to collect several sheets of paper and a pencil and to find somewhere to sit around the room. The teams should be spread out so they can not overhear each other.
4. Call up one member from each team. Give them one of the rights on your list, for example, «freedom from torture».
5. Tell them to return to their groups and to make a drawing to represent the right while their team mates try to guess what it is. They may only draw images; no numbers or words may be used. No speaking is allowed except to confirm the correct answer.
6. The rest of the team may only say their guesses; they may not ask questions.
7. After each round, ask all the drawers to write on their picture what the right was, whether they finished it or not, and to put the paper to one side.
8. Do a second round; call new people to be the drawers and give them a different right. Do 7 or 8 rounds. A different person should draw in each round. Try to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to draw at least once.
9. At the end, ask the groups to pin up their pictures so that the different interpretations and images of the different rights can be compared and discussed.

Debriefing and evaluation

Begin by reviewing the activity itself and then go on to talk about what people know about human rights.
• Was it easier or harder than people had expected to depict human rights?
• How did people choose how to depict a particular right? Where did they get the images from?
• If they drew violations to illustrate the rights, are those violations likely to occur in their country?
• How do the different images of the right compare? How many different ways were there to depict and interpret the same concept? 
• After all the pictures have been reviewed, ask how much — or how little — participants discovered they knew about human rights.
• Do they think human rights have any relevance to their own lives? Which ones?

Tips for facilitators

Before you do this activity you should read through the UDHR and be familiar with what is meant by human rights; for example, that they are internationally guaranteed, legally protected, they focus on the dignity of the human being, they protect both individuals and groups, they can not be taken away, they are equal and interdependent and they are universal.

You will need to decide how to use the wall chart. If participants have very little knowledge of the UDHR you may like to use the chart before you start the activity, so that participants have some clues as to what they should be guessing! If participants have more knowledge, then use the chart at the end to stimulate discussion about the rights that were not drawn.

Be aware that people who consider themselves poor artists may think this will be too difficult for them. Reassure them that you are not looking for works of art and encourage everyone to have a go. They may be surprised!

Use the abridged version of the UDHR  for finding rights for drawing. Some suggestions are: the right to life, freedom from torture, the right to a fair trial, freedom from discrimination, the right to privacy, the right to education, freedom from slavery, freedom of association, freedom of expression, the right to a nationality, freedom of thought and religion, the right to vote, the right to work, the right to health, the right to own property, the right to marry and found a family and the right to choose who to marry.

Variations

If you have a small group of less that 8 people you can play as one group; ask one person to draw in the first round, and whoever guesses draws in the next round, and so on.

Instead of drawing, you can do the exercise by asking the participants to mime selected rights.

Suggestions for follow-up

The activity «Flower power»  also uses drawing to explore where the concept of rights comes from.
If the group enjoy being creative, they may enjoy the activity «Act it out»  in which people have to mime to convey the general concept of human rights.
The group may like to go on to explore some of rights relating to a particular group, for instance the rights of disabled people, using the activity «See the ability».