NEPA Odyssey of the Mind

Given: gum drops, toothpicks. Build a structure and describe each others’ creations.

Given: a piece of poster board, markers, a chain, a cotton ball, 2 Kleenex, a pen, a blender blade, a tupperware lid, a glove, a newspaper ad. Using the materials provided, create a treasure map leading to the most important part of…

Given: paper bag, chair, broom, straws, paper, string, sticky labels, yardstick, 2″x 2″ piece of tape, marker, scissors. Set up a 20″ x 10″ rectangle as the starting point. Five feet away, set up another rectangle the same size along with the…

Given: envelope, ping pong ball, gym shoe, small empty paper bag, two straws, tennis ball, roll of masking tape. In five minutes, the team must construct a sculpture using every item, connected with masking tape. They must then tell the name of…

Given: a 12-inch long piece of aluminum foil for each member of the team. Team members are given 5 minutes to create something out of the foil. Creations are scored for creativity on a scale of 1 to 10. Teams who watch…

Given: Each team member gets approximately one quarter of a cup of clay. They have two minutes to make anything about which they may tell a story. The first member starts their story and the second member adds to it using his…

Given two pictures from magazines of desolate, barren or industrial areas. Act as travel agents and describe these locations as “‘vacation paradise” detailing attractions and amenities.

Choose miscellaneous objects and create a story as the items are passed around.

Name creative uses for a slinky. Examples: You go down stairs by yourself, you move between hands, you look like spring in bed, this is an antenna for an alien, a fishing pole for a whirlpole, a telescope

Given: chalk, eraser, paper wad, pencil, scissors, paper clip, Uno deck (numbers 1-6) Number each item one through six. Each person, in turn, draws two cards, then must create an imaginary sentence linking the two selected objects.