To play at home or in the pillow fort.
The game, Exquisite Corpse, was invented by a group of artists called the Surrealists. And it’s a fun drawing game (even though it sounds like a makeover show for zombies).
The Surrealists used to play it when they needed to mind poo…
What you need:
A piece of paper
A pen
A brain (any size)
Here's how to play:
Grab a piece of paper and fold it into three equal sections.
The first person draws a HEAD in the top section. Any head. A dog head. A toilet head. A head that is also somehow a sandwich.
Fold your section over so the next person CAN'T see it. But draw two tiny lines poking into their section so they know where the neck ends.
The second person draws a BODY. Arms, torso, branches, whatever. Fold it over. Add two tiny lines so the next person knows where the legs start.
The third person draws the LEGS and FEET, Flippers, rollerskates etc
Unfold the paper.
Behold your magnificent, disgusting, completely unhinged creature.
Nobody knows what the others drew until the very end. That's the whole point. That's where the good weird stuff lives.
Now you have your creature it’s time to learn more about them. Ask yourself, where does it live, what does it eat. How does it walk? How does it talk?
What about putting them in a play? For two minutes try walking around the room saying hello to each other,
TRY DOING THIS WITH A STORY. Everyone writes a sentence of the story each.