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Musts:

No Criticism Allowed

Work for Quantity

Freewheeling Encouraged

Hitchhiking Welcome

1. Substitution: Who else instead? What else instead? Other ingredients?

2. Combine: Combine Units, purpose, appeals. How about a blend?

3. Adapt: What other idea does this suggest? What could I copy?

4. Modify, Minify, Magnify: New twist? Change color. Motion, sound, odor? Add? Thin?

5. Put to other uses: New way to use it? Other people to reach.

6. Eliminate: Make smaller? Shorter? Omit?

7. Reverse/Rearrange: Interchange parts? Turn upside down? Reverse role?

8. Substitution: Who else instead? What else instead? Other ingredients?

9. Combine: Combine Units, purpose, appeals. How about a blend?

10. Adapt: What other idea does this suggest? What could I copy?

11. Modify, Minify, Magnify: New twist? Change color. Motion, sound, odor? Add? Thin?

12. Put to other uses: New way to use it? Other people to reach.

13. Eliminate: Make smaller? Shorter? Omit?

14. Reverse/Rearrange: Interchange parts? Turn upside down? Reverse role?

*Invent America Teacher's Packet

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