Office Break Games

Drawing games

Thirty-second portraits

Everyone draws the person opposite in thirty seconds, without looking at the paper. Then the gallery opens.

Players
2–20
Time
5–10 min

What you need

  • Paper and pens

How to play

  1. Pair up and sit facing each other.
  2. Start a 30-second timer; draw your partner while looking only at them, never at the page.
  3. Swap partners and repeat a few times.
  4. Stick the portraits on a wall and let people find themselves.

Office tip: A good warm-up for a workshop: it is impossible to be good at, so nobody worries about it.

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