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Engage (What you need to know)
Ages
10+
Number of Participants
Minimum of 10
Time frame
20-40 minutes
Necessary Components
Small square about 4 x 4 feet.
Think fully covered pallet, VERY sturdy table, a board, ect.
Purpose
This game requires participants to get very close together. It has participants standing and interacting in very close quarters with one another. It requires a very high degree of cooperation in order for a group to be able to successfully complete this activity.
Demonstration / Guide
The guide will need to lay out a platform or enclosed space of some kind that is much smaller than the group as a whole. The goal is to have the entire group standing on this platform with none of their feet outside of the platform.
Story to tell the group, “There has been a massive squall and our ship has been wrecked. This small piece of wood is all that is left. We need to get all members of our team on the box and out of the shark infested water!
At the end of the challenge, everyone must be off the ground without any part of their body touching the ground. This will require every single participant to ram together, stack together, or hold together in a very small space. It involved everyone working together in order to accomplish a very specific task.
Everyone must remain on the platform for 5 seconds. Participants cannot lie on top of each other or be on the shoulders or back of another. Facilitators should spot the group. To decrease difficulty, the 5 second rule may be removed.
Optional Extensions
Make it so the main leaders can’t speak.
Decrease the size of the platform.
Increase the amount of time that they must remain on the platform.
Add a time limit. If they do it twice, give them 30 seconds to do it.
Explaining the requirements
Gather everyone together around the platform
Explain the story
Everyone must fit onto this small wooden platform
No one's feet may be touching the ground
They must hold that position for at least 5 to 10 seconds
No laying down and stacking on top of one another.
They must now problem solve themselves through this difficult circumstance while working together with one another.
Engage (What you need to know)
Ages
10+
Number of Participants
Minimum of 10
Time frame
20-40 minutes
Necessary Components
Small square about 4 x 4 feet.
Think fully covered pallet, VERY sturdy table, a board, ect.
Purpose
This game requires participants to get very close together. It has participants standing and interacting in very close quarters with one another. It requires a very high degree of cooperation in order for a group to be able to successfully complete this activity.
Demonstration / Guide
The guide will need to lay out a platform or enclosed space of some kind that is much smaller than the group as a whole. The goal is to have the entire group standing on this platform with none of their feet outside of the platform.
Story to tell the group, “There has been a massive squall and our ship has been wrecked. This small piece of wood is all that is left. We need to get all members of our team on the box and out of the shark infested water!
At the end of the challenge, everyone must be off the ground without any part of their body touching the ground. This will require every single participant to ram together, stack together, or hold together in a very small space. It involved everyone working together in order to accomplish a very specific task.
Everyone must remain on the platform for 5 seconds. Participants cannot lie on top of each other or be on the shoulders or back of another. Facilitators should spot the group. To decrease difficulty, the 5 second rule may be removed.
Optional Extensions
Make it so the main leaders can’t speak.
Decrease the size of the platform.
Increase the amount of time that they must remain on the platform.
Add a time limit. If they do it twice, give them 30 seconds to do it.
Explaining the requirements
Gather everyone together around the platform
Explain the story
Everyone must fit onto this small wooden platform
No one's feet may be touching the ground
They must hold that position for at least 5 to 10 seconds
No laying down and stacking on top of one another.
They must now problem solve themselves through this difficult circumstance while working together with one another.