Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Who's Left??


This activity is a slight twist on one I learned from the great Karl Rohnke. It's good for having some high energy fun and depending on how you set it up and debrief it could be geared toward cooperation.

Who's Left??

- Have everyone number off by 2's and split up into two teams. Call one Team A and one Team B (or feel free to use some creative expression)

- Have everyone spread themselves out randomly in a relatively large playing area (a gym, field, random parking lot, etc.) making sure that they have room between other players

- Once the players are distributed they have to stay there with both feet stationary until the action starts happening.

- Tell all the players on Team A to extend their right hands and players on Team B to extend their left.

- Choose two people (one from each team) one being the "Left Initiator" and the other the "Right Initiator"

- The two initiators then jog to opposite ends of the playing area and stand ready about ten feet from the nearest distributed person

- On "Go!" the right initiators looks for a player with an extended right hand and grasps that person's hand. The two then become connected and go look for another extended right hand and so on until all right handed players are connected hand in hand. If the "right" team gets connected before the "left" team completes their connection, the right wins.

Special notice
* Yelling and shouting is strongly encouraged
* If anyone moves their feet before the initiator grasps their hand 5 seconds will be added to their time.
* Physically interfering with the other team is not allowed
* If anyone in the developing line breaks grip then there will be a ten second time penalty for each break

For multiple rounds

Break the group up into 4 teams (Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo) then randomly pick two groups to be on Team A and two to be on Team B right before calling go.