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Creativity Exercise: Paper Printer |
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Indoor Games |
Early and Mid Adolescents |
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Submitted By: Chelsea Elm |
Source: http://www.skillsconverged.com |
This is a fun and engaging exercise which uses kid’s imagination and innovative skills.
Split the group into subgroups of three or four kids. Provide each team with a shoe box, sticky tape, a pair of scissors, a marker pen and a few A4 sheets. Each team has twenty minutes to design a paper printer out of the materials provided. The best design gets a suitable prize.
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Frisball |
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Outdoor Games |
Mid and Late Adolescents |
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Submitted By: Josh Panzier |
Source: N/A |
Basically this is a game that some of my friends and I made up in Southern Illinois and I think it would work good for any youth group.
Basics: Baseball with a Frisbee at night.
Rules: There are 2 teams. One "bats" and the other plays the field. The batting team stands on home and chucks the Frisbee. Players are out if they strike out (Frisbee has to make it past the baseline or if you foul 3 times) or someone catches it. If it is in the outfield, the batter runs until it is in control by a player in the in-field(they have to be holding it). We play with the half-way rule (where if you are half way to the next base you are on that base). We generally do a ten run rule too just to make the game go smoother.
Game is best played at night with a little light on a baseball diamond.
Have Fun!! |
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Do You Want to Buy a Duck - Variation |
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Indoor Games |
All Youth |
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Submitted By: JD Lemon |
Source: N/A |
This is a variation to the game posted by Brianna - "Do you want to buy a duck?" The game is roughly the same with a couple differences. It would proceed as follows.
Person 1 "Do you want to buy a duck?"
Person 2 "A what?"
Person 1 "A duck."
Person 2"Does it quack?"
Person 1"Of course it quacks."
Person 2"Then I'll buy it."
Person 1"Sweet."
Then person 2 asks person 3 to buy something else entirely. It gets crazy because you start having to keep track of the different animals or objects being asked about and you can allow the youth to come up with crazy ideas and questions. Ex:
1 "Do you want to buy a duck?"
2 "A what?"
1 "A duck."
2 "Does it quack?"
1 "Of course it quacks."
2 "Then I'll buy it."
1 "Sweet."
2 "________(name of person) do you want to buy a surf board?"
3 "A what?"
2 "A what?"
1 "A duck."
2 "A surfboard."
3 "Will it let me catch big waves?"
2 "Does it quack?"
1 "Of course it quacks."
2 "Of course it will let you catch big waves."
3 "Then I'll buy it."
2 "I'll buy it.
1 "Sweet."
And it goes on like that with each successive person. You can even ask people questions who have already been ask. You can ask questions back to someone who just asked you a question - to make it interesting. |
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