This is a great game for encouraging children to look really carefully at a work of art. It also develops communication skills and team work.

Describe your painting to your partner, who must then draw it.

• Put pupils into partners.
• Each pair must have a 1 piece of paper and 1 pencil.
• Give partner 1, a picture (images of works from the Ben Uri collection can be found in the teaching packs, the A Sense of Place teaching pack is particularly suitable) Partner 1 will be the 'describer'.
• Partner 2 MUST NOT SEE the picture given to the describer.
• Partner 2 will be the 'drawer'.
• The drawer must draw the picture guided only by the instructions of Partner 1.
• The describer must describe every detail of the painting, in order for Partner 2 to reproduce the picture accurately.
• When the first drawing is created partners can swap roles and begin the activity again.
• At the end of the activity pairs can show their results to the rest of the class. Keep a big pile of pictures ready for those that finish early. Pupils enjoy playing this game!