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How can you deliver a message with no words? Work with your team to pass it on.

Source: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/mime-time/

Resources

Safety checklist
Use the Safety checklist (https://cms.scouts.org.uk/media/10684/safety-checklist-leaders-2020.pdf) to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Additional coronavirus-related controls to think about may include: Set up a hand washing station that you can use throughout the session; Remind everyone to stand at least two metres away from each other in their teams.

Instructions

Play the game
1. Everyone should split into teams of about four to six players. Adjust the sizes as you need to, depending on your group.

2. Each team should line up one behind the other, facing the same direction. Remember to leave 2m of space between each person.

3. The person leading the game should ask the last person in each team to turn around to face them, and take a few steps away from their team.

4. The person leading the game should give each person a simple message, for example, ‘I love apples’, ‘we’re going rock climbing’, or ‘we need to tidy up’. You don’t need to give all the teams the same message. You could make the messages relate to an activity or theme you’ll be doing.

5. The players should return to their place in the line.

6. The player with the message should call the name of the person in front of them. The person in front of them should turn around, and the player with the message should mime their message using actions and facial expressions - they can’t say any words or use any noises.

7. When the player in front of them thinks they’ve got it, they should turn around to call the name of the person in front of them and repeat step six.

8. The message should travel all the way up the line, one person at a time.

9. Once they’ve seen the mime, the person at the front of the line should tell everyone what they think the message might be.

10. The person at the back of the line should tell the person at the front of the line if they’re right. Did the message change much?


Reflection
This activity was a chance for everyone to communicate in a slightly different way. People often rely on talking to each other, so passing messages on without talking (or writing, or drawing) can be tricky. How did people feel during this game? Some people may have felt frustrated when they couldn’t get a message across, or confused if a message wasn’t clear. Can anyone think of another time it might be difficult to communicate? People may think about when two people don’t speak the same language, or people with hearing difficulties. Well done for everyone for giving it a go.


Change the level of challenge
It’s up to you how tricky the messages are. You might want to start with really simple ones, then play again (with people in a different order) to make it more challenging. Abstract messages will be harder than actions, for example, ‘someone doing star jumps’ would be easier than ‘I love milk’.

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