Ink Blot Activity

Ink Blot Activity

 

What you will need:

• Paper
• Paint
• Printed Pictures
• Ink Blot History

This was an exciting activity for all of our residents! Regardless of their cognition they could discover a picture in the ink blot. We first began talking about the purpose and history of ink blots. Here is the link to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test I just printed it out and read a little from it. I even showed a picture of Rorschach. It's important to talk about the purpose of the activity. To discover underlying ideas and attitudes in the brain! We even talk about a few optical illusions to go along with this experiment. Here are a few attached pictures you may use.

These are some of his actual inkblots with the majority of the answers

Here is Rorschach himself! (A lot of the ladies ooh'd at his good looks)




Ink Blot Example

Ink Blot Example

This one actually has a wolf inside! They COULD not spot it! It was difficult!




Depending on how you turn it you could see a bunny or a duck




How many legs does this elephant have? I think we counted 8.



They were baffled at this one!

 We brought them around and showed them to each resident! They were SO creative and really got into it! Then we made our own by putting paint (any color) on one side of the page (mostly in the middle of the page) and folded it over. It created a symmetrical pattern of their own! Don't use too much paint or the page may get wet and rip apart! If you have time you could even try to see what picture is in each page. It is a really enjoyable activity and very simple. Here are some pictures! Please comment!

Here are some of our resident photos!