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Description

Work as a team to recreate a display of random items that only one of your group has seen

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/building-memories/

Resources

A set of items to create a display, and an identical set of items for each team.


Youth shaped guidance
Young people could set up a display as a team, and then swap with another team (who have also created a display) to play.

Instructions

Before you begin
- Gather your items – if you’re playing inside, you could use cups, pens, chairs, and toys. Outdoors, you could use items like chairs, tents, sticks, and pioneering poles.
- Set up a display using the items – arrange, balance, and layer them to create a scene for the players to copy. The display must be hidden from the teams – put it in another room, or tuck it away behind a table.

Play the game
1. Split into teams, and give each team their set of items. They must have all of the items they need to copy the display.
2. Teams should choose one team member to be the runner. The runner should come and view the original display – they can look for 20 seconds.
3. The runner should re-join their group, and give their team instructions so they can recreate the display. The runner can’t touch any items – they can only use verbal instructions.
4. Teams can have a conversation with their runner and ask them any questions they have.
5. The challenge is complete when the team has recreated the display as accurately as they can. The person leading the game should reveal the original display, and teams should compare their creations.
6. If you want to, you can play again with a different display, and different runners.


Change the level of challenge
- Adapt the complexity of the display – add or remove elements, or combine items in more intricate ways.

- Give teams extra items, which don’t belong in the scene – to make it extra tricky, use similar items (for example give them a red, a green, and a blue building block, when they only need one blue block).

- Give teams a time limit to complete their copied display.

- Give runners more chances to view the original display – allow them to check halfway through, or check their work at the end.

- Limit the words the runner is allowed to say – now, they can’t name any of the items used. For example, they can’t say ‘chair’ so they’ll have to describe it by saying ‘the thing you sit on’.

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• Teamwork - Team-building