Bruno Larocerie

LEI 4724

Activity: Back-2-Back Drawing

Source: Back-2-Back Drawing. (n.d.). Retrieved March 17, 2017, from
http://www.teampedia.net/wiki/index.php?title=Back-2-Back_Drawing
Equipment Needed: Paper, and Pencil

Activity Description:

1. Introduce yourself and announce the name of the activity you will be instructing.
Rules of The Game
No visual gestures are allowed while describing the object.
No body language is allowed.
You must only use shapes and lines and direction of placement to describe the
painting.
2. Allow participants to get into groups of two.
3. Tell participants who are paired to arrange desks or chairs, back to back to each other.
4. Then choose one of the pair to be the one who draws and that leaves the other to be
the one that needs to describe the painting.
5. Choose a picture card of an object for the describer to try and describe without
breaking any of the rules.
6. Once all participants are done or a limit of 10 minutes is up, have the partners role
switch and give the new describer a new picture card (if they were a drawer, they
not become a describer, and if they were a describer, they are now a drawer.
7. Once everyone has had a chance to play both roles then have them rearrange their
desks so that they can all face you.
8. Debrief the activity and ask about their experience while playing out both roles
(Describer, and Drawer)
Leadership Considerations
For this activity, the ratio of participants to instructor should be around 20/1. Questions the
facilitator may ask is, how did you feel when you were giving instructions?, how did it feel
when you were receiving the instructions and had to draw?, now that youve done both roles,
how clear do you think your instructions were?
If you happen to have some or one of your participants with Parkinson disease, you might have
to use either a writing stabilizer or have them use the paint software program when they are
the describers. If you dont have those types of assistive technologies you may be able to have
cards cut out into shapes and have them arrange those cards with the directions given to them
by the describer. The goal when you have someone with Parkinson is to have their
uncontrollable movements interfere with the activity as much as possible.
When a participant has a learning disability, such as Visual Perceptual/Visual Motor Deficit is
participating in the activity, the facilitator may need to adapt certain things to better include
the participant in the activity. This form of learning disability can be adaptable with pencil grips,
providing rulers and text windows, and provide pictures with a wider spacing of objects so the
shapes are not clustered.