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Ice-breaker, Group Building Activity, Name Game/Get to know each other
The tool was created by a group of youth workers in frames of a training course about game creation to make the elarning processes more effective.
Objectives: teambuilding, icebreaking, brain stimulation, improving hand-eye coordination
and reflex, increasing the energy level
Players: 5 - 12
Instructions:
→ The warm up phase:
- players standing in a circle, facing the middle
- one player (the facilitator) holds one ball and has a bag or a basket with the rest of the balls in front of them
- the facilitator says the name of another person in the circle and throws the ball towards this person
- the next person says the name of another person in the circle and throws the ball towards that person, and so on
- it’s important to remember the name of the person that you throw to!
- after throwing the ball to someone else the player crosses their arms on the chest
- players keep saying names and passing the ball between each other (every time crossing their arms on the chest after having thrown the ball to another person)
- you cannot throw the ball to a person with their arms crossed on the chest
- the last person without their arms crossed throws the ball to the facilitator
- the warm up phase has ended
- everyone should remember the person they threw the ball to
→ The game phase:
- each player takes one ball
- the group decides who will give the signal to start every time
- the task is to synchronize and throw all the balls at the same time
- each person throws a ball to the same person as in the warm up phase
- during the game players don’t cross their arms on the chest
- the ultimate challenge is to throw all the balls and catch all the balls, so the balls should exchange the places, and no ball should be on the ground
- the group can count how many times in a row they manage to exchange all the balls without dropping even one ball
- the group can decide what score they would like to achieve (for example: 5 times in a row without any drop)
- the group can choose one person who will be responsible for counting the score
→ Possible variations:
- throwing with both hands, catching with both hands
- throwing with the right hand, catching with both hands
- throwing with the left hand, catching with both hands
- throwing with the right hand, catching with the left hand
- throwing with the left hand, catching with the right hand
- throwing with the right hand, catching with the right hand
- throwing with the left hand, catching with the left hand
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http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/3173
This tool is for
Age: 12+
and addresses
Group Dynamics
It is recommended for use in:
Training and Networking
Materials needed:
Materials: juggling balls (or other balls suited to the palm size of the players, easy to throw and catch with one hand)
- as many balls as players
- preferably the balls in different colours
The tool was created by
A group of youth workers
in the context of
Training Course about Game Creation
The tool has been experimented in
The project “Game in Action” is co-funded by the Polish National Agency in the framework of Erasmus+ Programme. Project reference number: 2020-1-PL01-KA105-079836.
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Hermine Papikyan (on 3 April 2022)
and last modified
2 February 2022
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