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Engage (What you need to know)
Ages
10+
Number of Participants
8-16
Time frame
10-30 minutes
Necessary components.
Whatever resources you happen to have laying around
Examples, blocks, rope, hula hoops, chairs, and ect.
Purpose
To get a group of people to creatively problem solve together. This activity requires a high amount of nonverbal communication and cooperation between all of the participants involved. It is also very easy for it to devolve a little bit of controlled chaos which can help a group to learn and grow together.
Demonstration / Guide
Make one big circle of the participants, with all of your supplies off to the side.
You are going to pull one of the participants off to the side, or put them outside the room, or just blind fold them.
In the center of the circle you are going to build a structure. It could be completely random. Example, a blue block sitting on a chair with a red Hula Hoop leaning against it. Tell all of the participants who can see it, that their goal is to get the blinded person to replicate this structure exactly.
You can either photograph this particular creation if you have a phone
If you have the supplies, you can cover this version with a blanket or tarp, and provide the participants with an exact duplicate set.
Once the original creation has been covered or destroyed you bring the blindfolded person back and into the circle. Their job is now to work with their team in order to recreate the original structure.
Each person on the exterior of the circle can only say 1 word. So the entire group must work together in order to try and recreate it.
Player 1. “Place” Player 2 “the” Player 3 “blue” player 4 “block” player 5 “on” Player 6 “the” player 7 “chair.” This continues on until the original structure has been replicated.
Optional extension.
Multiple people pulled out to make communicating with them more challenging
More items.
Explaining the requirements
Everyone gather into a circle
Pull one person aside
Each person in the circle can only say one word
Everyone must work together in order to try and replicate the original structure.
Build a random structure
Ex, hula hoop with block in the center, and PVC pipe making a cross on the outside.
Take a picture of, or cover this structure. Tell the participants to memorize it.
Bring back the person kept to the side.
Pick a person to start with on the outside of the circle.
That person gets to start the game off by saying a single world that relates to the building of the structure.
Once they have said their word it moves to the person to their right. This will continue around the circle as many people say one word to the person in the middle.
With constant one word instructions see if this blind builder is able to build an exact replica
Engage (What you need to know)
Ages
10+
Number of Participants
8-16
Time frame
10-30 minutes
Necessary components.
Whatever resources you happen to have laying around
Examples, blocks, rope, hula hoops, chairs, and ect.
Purpose
To get a group of people to creatively problem solve together. This activity requires a high amount of nonverbal communication and cooperation between all of the participants involved. It is also very easy for it to devolve a little bit of controlled chaos which can help a group to learn and grow together.
Demonstration / Guide
Make one big circle of the participants, with all of your supplies off to the side.
You are going to pull one of the participants off to the side, or put them outside the room, or just blind fold them.
In the center of the circle you are going to build a structure. It could be completely random. Example, a blue block sitting on a chair with a red Hula Hoop leaning against it. Tell all of the participants who can see it, that their goal is to get the blinded person to replicate this structure exactly.
You can either photograph this particular creation if you have a phone
If you have the supplies, you can cover this version with a blanket or tarp, and provide the participants with an exact duplicate set.
Once the original creation has been covered or destroyed you bring the blindfolded person back and into the circle. Their job is now to work with their team in order to recreate the original structure.
Each person on the exterior of the circle can only say 1 word. So the entire group must work together in order to try and recreate it.
Player 1. “Place” Player 2 “the” Player 3 “blue” player 4 “block” player 5 “on” Player 6 “the” player 7 “chair.” This continues on until the original structure has been replicated.
Optional extension.
Multiple people pulled out to make communicating with them more challenging
More items.
Explaining the requirements
Everyone gather into a circle
Pull one person aside
Each person in the circle can only say one word
Everyone must work together in order to try and replicate the original structure.
Build a random structure
Ex, hula hoop with block in the center, and PVC pipe making a cross on the outside.
Take a picture of, or cover this structure. Tell the participants to memorize it.
Bring back the person kept to the side.
Pick a person to start with on the outside of the circle.
That person gets to start the game off by saying a single world that relates to the building of the structure.
Once they have said their word it moves to the person to their right. This will continue around the circle as many people say one word to the person in the middle.
With constant one word instructions see if this blind builder is able to build an exact replica