Art Challenge Wheel
Art challenges with a twist take the pressure off making something perfect, which is exactly what reluctant artists need. This wheel holds 24 prompts: draw with your other hand, use only three colours, turn a scribble into an animal, design a new trainer, or draw without lifting your pencil. Some focus on technique, some on imagination, and all work with just paper and pencils. Spin one as an art lesson warm-up, keep the wheel open for early finishers, or run a weekly class challenge and display the results. Add techniques from your art curriculum to make it fit your scheme.
How to use it
- The wheel is ready with 24 entries. Press Spin, click the wheel or press Space, and the result appears in the middle.
- Open Edit entries to change the list for your class, or press Use my class instead to spin your students' names.
- Press Present (or F) to show just the wheel on the board. Turn on Take winners off the wheel in Settings if you don't want repeats.
Ways to use it in class
- Five-minute sketch: spin, set a five-minute timer, then hold the drawings up together on the chime.
- Early finishers: leave the wheel on a spare laptop so students can spin their own challenge.
- Gallery walk: everyone does the same spun challenge, then walks round to see how differently it turned out.
More ready-made wheels
Questions teachers ask
Can I change what's on the wheel?
Yes. Open Edit entries to add, remove or reword anything, one entry per line. Your changes last until you leave the page, and Restore brings back the original list.
Can I spin my students' names instead?
Yes. Press Use my class instead to swap the entries for your saved class, with absent students left off. Press the back button in the same place to return to this wheel's entries.
Is every entry equally likely?
Yes. The result is chosen with your browser's cryptographic random number generator before the wheel moves, and every slice has the same chance. Turn on Take winners off the wheel in Settings to avoid repeats.
Will ads show on my projector?
No. Press Present (or F) and the screen shows only the wheel and the Spin button, in large type for the back of the room.