Creative workshop for 12 year olds (yr 7)

This was my first workshop with Year 7's and it proved to be a very different experience. They were attentive and well behaved but more importantly the ideas in the 'what happens next?' were very different. Not a single pupil suggested a dragon. They didn't manipulate what was already said but attacked the challenge from an individual perpective. It is interesting that as children get older they are able to develope deeper more complex ideas. Some of the ideas were totally unconnected but I think I know why this was. In their minds the ideas were much bigger but time didn't allow them to develop these ideas sufficiently.