Thursday, September 12, 2002
City-Wide Street Art Game
A correspondent from an "adventure based learning center" in Australia asked for some Art Games. My first recommendation was, of course, Redondo.
Continued searching led me to this City-Wide Street Art Game from the eternally resourceful Halfbakery:
On a selected day, the puzzle-setter proceeds onto the streets with paint or chalk, having in mind an image or picture to draw. They make marks on the sidewalk/pavement of different streets. To the casual observer, these marks will not be significant, but to someone watching the progress from a satellite they will be highly significant, forming parts of the image superimposed onto the streets below.
However the puzzle-solvers will not be watching from above. They have to run around the streets looking for traces of paint, marking them on the maps in their hands, trying to work out what the puzzle-setter is drawing. Once they have an idea, they take out their own paints and try to complete the picture before the setter can. Each time the puzzle-setter comes to an already-painted place, they identify the team by their paint colour and score that team one point. If the solvers paint the wrong place, they score nothing.
For more art-like, play-like ideas from the Half-Bakery, see these search results.
Continued searching led me to this City-Wide Street Art Game from the eternally resourceful Halfbakery:
On a selected day, the puzzle-setter proceeds onto the streets with paint or chalk, having in mind an image or picture to draw. They make marks on the sidewalk/pavement of different streets. To the casual observer, these marks will not be significant, but to someone watching the progress from a satellite they will be highly significant, forming parts of the image superimposed onto the streets below.
However the puzzle-solvers will not be watching from above. They have to run around the streets looking for traces of paint, marking them on the maps in their hands, trying to work out what the puzzle-setter is drawing. Once they have an idea, they take out their own paints and try to complete the picture before the setter can. Each time the puzzle-setter comes to an already-painted place, they identify the team by their paint colour and score that team one point. If the solvers paint the wrong place, they score nothing.
For more art-like, play-like ideas from the Half-Bakery, see these search results.
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