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Description

Think about the impact choices make on your life.

Resources

Ball for each participant
Sheets cut out
Bucket/bin
Pens and sheet of paper for each participant

Instructions

Before you begin
The person leading the activity should use scissors to cut out the individual colours from the ‘Safety net game’ sheet.
The person leading the activity should use scissors to cut out the individual scenarios from the ‘Safety net game’ sheet.
Fold up the cut-out colours and put them in one bowl and fold up the cut-out scenarios and put them in the other bowl.
Take the leftover paper of the ‘Safety net game’ sheet and write ‘Safety net’ six times in a neutral colour. Cut these out, fold them up and add them to the bowl of scenarios. Make sure that the contents of each bowl is mixed around well before starting the game.
Run the activity
The person leading the activity should place a bucket in the centre of a large room. Everyone should stand in a circle around the bucket. Each person should have at least one metre of space between the bucket and the spot where he or she is standing.
The person leading the activity should give a piece of paper and a ball to each person in the circle. Everyone should draw ten small circles on their paper with the coloured pencils. Each player can choose any number of the six colours they like – for example, one person might do six red circles, two yellow circles, one green circle and one blue circle.

If there are not enough coloured pencils to go around, players can also draw neutrally-coloured circles and write the name of the colour inside.
The person leading the activity should then take a scenario and a colour from the bowls to begin the game. They should read these aloud to the group. Anyone who has the colour in one or more of their circles must follow the instructions given.For example, the person leading the activity might say: ‘Red. You’ve just had a pay rise – take one step forward.’

Any player with one or more circles with that colour must take a small step forward. If a player has more than one circle with that colour, they may take that many steps (e.g. three red circles = three steps forward).
As more scenarios and colours are read out, the players should end up at different distances from the bucket. When the person leading the activity calls out a ‘Safety net’ and a colour, players with one or more circles in that colour may choose to try and get their ball into the bucket from where they are standing. Anyone who gets their ball into the bucket has won and is ‘safe.’ Anyone who misses can retrieve their ball, return to where they were standing and continue playing.

‘Safe’ players who get lucky early in the game may wish to continue playing. The person leading the activity can retrieve their ball from the bucket and they may continue from where they were standing when they made their throw.
When there are no more colours remaining, anyone not safe has lost the game and is now homeless.

Tags

• choices
• community
• homelessness
• million hands

Badge Links

• Community Impact - Learn
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