Sometimes the only way to kick-start momentum is to get your hands dirty. Turn the classroom into a “lab” and use group ice-breaker and warm-up activities as a way to get pupils to start making marks in their sketchbook, OR making marks with “things”. The boundaries set by the activities will offer a structure from which to work, but by inviting pupil’s to do something outside of the expected you’ll be helping them take on new ideas and start to think more creatively. 

Take a look at how you can adapt the following activities to fit your question, theme or provocation. Remember you don’t have to make every sketchbook activity directly relate to your topic – sometimes throwing “spanners in the works” can shift and refresh thinking, and ideas and experiences generated will feed through the sketchbook work.