Tee Time: Wordplay & Warm-Ups
Item ID: TTWPW-2021
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Word Play & Warm-Ups by Chris Dunmire
Posted 9/1/20 | Updated 11/24/24
Welcome to the green, your blank canvas to engage in creative thinking and play!
The printable activities in Tee Time: Swing Into Creative Play are designed to move you into creative mode through word play and other warm-ups that engage your brain through humor, artistic expression, free thinking, idea generation, and problem solving.
Suggested use: Play with the activities in this book on your own, partnered up, or in groups. Try a free sample challenge below.
Creative Brain Play
Marcel Danesi Ph.D. is a brain workout expert who says that regularly challenging the brain with games can help maintain cognitive abilities, and that puzzles can improve memory, concentration, and mental speed.
Challenge your brain with the sample "Rename the Game" activity from Chris Dunmire's Tee Time: Wordplay & Warm-ups.
Tee Time: Wordplay & Warm-Ups
Item ID: TTWPW-2021
$5.99
What impact do creativity warm-ups — word play, drawing, coloring, and puzzles — have on your brain and well-being? Consider what research shows:
"Creativity in and of itself is important for remaining healthy, remaining connected to yourself and connected to the world." —Christianne Strang, Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Alabama Birmingham and the Former President of the American Art Therapy Association
"Coloring goes beyond being a fun activity for relaxation. It requires the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate. While logic helps us stay inside the lines, choosing colors generates a creative thought process." —Beaumont Health, Michigan, USA
"There is little doubt in my mind that puzzles are beneficial [...] I saw this with my own eyes within my own family." —Marcel Danesi, Professor of Semiotics and Anthropology at Victoria College, University of Toronto
"Coloring has the ability to relax the fear center of your brain, the amygdala. It induces the same state as meditating by reducing the thoughts of a restless mind. This generates mindfulness and quietness, which allows your mind to get some rest after a long day at work." —Beaumont Health
"Anything that engages your creative mind — the ability to make connections between unrelated things and imagine new ways to communicate — is good for you." —Girija Kaimal, Professor at Drexel University