Writing teachers, why not warm up a class by playing Lewis Carroll’s Doublet puzzle?

Here are a few websites that explain the puzzle:
http://www.logicville.com/doublets.htm

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-workout/200908/the-doublet-puzzle-masterpiece-the-pen-lewis-carroll

Generate a list of interesting words and then use them as a kind of spine for a poem.
This may work with adults and older students as well as younger ones.