Creating a collaborative drawing should never be an end in itself – it should always serve a specific purpose, such as decorating the classroom, summarizing content, or supporting storytelling.

This method is well-suited for text-based activities. Students create a joint illustration of the story or passage and then use the drawing to support an oral presentation. If the drawing is successful, it often makes it easier for students to recall and retell the content of the reading.

Specific lesson related examples:

• Math: The initial story behind the exercise: the squirrel has lost the nuts it collected for the winter. The children work together to draw a “happy future” in which the forest animals help the squirrel; their task is to hide and count a specific number (e.g., 15) of nuts in the drawing.
• Reading and Writing: We pause at the sad part of a short animal story, and the group draws a happy ending. Since they are just learning to write, instead of a long text, they write only 1–2 simple words that describe the picture or a single sentence next to the drawing (e.g., “The cat is happy.”).
• Environmental Studies: The starting point is a very trash-filled, neglected playground or park forest (which the children can easily imagine). In the group drawing, they create a clean, rebuilt dream playground, where they must consciously include recycling bins and people helping one another.
• Grammar (Vocabulary): The children transform a stormy, scary picture into a cheerful, sunny, peaceful drawing. As a grammar exercise, they must collect and write down simple pairs of opposites (e.g., dark-light, sad-happy, stormy-calm) around the finished drawing.
• Language: The problem is a very basic situation: a puppy is hungry and cold. The group draws the ideal situation (the puppy eating in a warm little house) and names the basic elements in the drawing using the language they have learned (e.g., dog, house, happy, food).
• Music and Visual Arts: The teacher plays a slow, sad piece of music (representing the problem), then switches to a cheerful, upbeat tune, to which the children must paint the “happy future.” In the visual arts class, the task is supplemented by the requirement that they may only use warm, bright colours (yellow, orange, red) to express joy.