Lesson Plan

Uncover Your Artistic Gifts

Students will explore and articulate their unique artistic talents through guided prompts, hands-on doodle challenges, and self-reflection, culminating in a personalized ‘creative superpower’ profile.

Recognizing individual creative strengths builds confidence, nurtures a growth mindset in arts, and fosters a supportive classroom culture where each student’s talents are celebrated.

Audience

Time

Approach

Materials

Prep

Prepare Materials and Technology

10 minutes

Step 1

Creative Warm-Up Doodle

5 minutes

Step 2

Identify Your Creative Strengths

10 minutes

Step 3

Doodle Your Superpower

15 minutes

Step 4

Superpower Gallery Walk

10 minutes

Step 5

Personal Superpower Reflection

5 minutes

Slide Deck

Creative Superpower Showcase

Welcome students and introduce the purpose of today’s session: discovering and celebrating our unique creative superpowers.

Warm-Up: Energizing Doodle

Explain that this quick doodle warm-up is all about feeling energized. Set a timer for 2–3 minutes and invite volunteers to share.

Identify Your Creative Strengths

Project all three questions together or one at a time. Give students think time and remind them to record answers in their worksheet.

Doodle Your Superpower

Encourage students to pick one strength from their profile and go wild with color and patterns. Play upbeat music to set the mood.

Superpower Gallery Walk

Arrange doodle sheets around the room. Give each student two sticky notes. Remind them to focus on positive feedback and curiosity.

Personal Superpower Reflection

Guide students to wrap up their thinking by answering how they might use their superpower in future work.

Awesome Creative Superpowers!

Celebrate students’ work and remind them that every superpower is valuable. Encourage ongoing creativity.

Lesson Plan

Uncover Your Artistic Gifts

Audience

Time

Approach

Materials

Prep

Prepare Materials and Technology

Step 1

Creative Warm-Up Doodle

Step 2

Identify Your Creative Strengths

Step 3

Doodle Your Superpower

Step 4

Superpower Gallery Walk

Step 5

Personal Superpower Reflection

Slide Deck

Creative Superpower Showcase

Warm-Up: Energizing Doodle

Identify Your Creative Strengths

Doodle Your Superpower

Superpower Gallery Walk

Personal Superpower Reflection

Awesome Creative Superpowers!

Worksheet

Warm Up

Cool Down

Rubric

What’s Your Creative Superpower?

Makensie Wilson