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Description

What does it take to be a good leader? Give leadership a go with this berry energetic game.

Courtesy The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/fruit-salad/

Includes SPACE THEME variation.

Resources

10 minutes

If you're running a space / star gazing programme, use the planet signs instead of fruit for an energetic space game! Just adjust the language used accordingly.

Safety
All activities must be safely managed. Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. Do a risk assessment and take appropriate steps to reduce risk. Always get approval for the activity and have suitable supervision and an InTouch process.
- Active games: The game area should be free of hazards. Explain the rules of the game clearly and have a clear way to communicate that the game must stop when needed.

Change the level of challenge
The game leaders could also choose their own version—it doesn’t have to be about fruit. Maybe they want to turn the game into vegetable soup, colours of the rainbow, or a seasonal theme such as Halloween.

Instructions

Talk about teams and choose a leader
1, The person leading the activity should ask everyone what they think is important when someone’s leading a game. People could think about things such as listening to everyone, giving instructions that are easy to understand, helping anyone who doesn’t understand, making fair decisions, and sorting out any problems.
2. The person leading the activity should choose someone to be the game leader. They may ask for volunteers, or they may have some people in mind. You could choose one person at a time, or people could lead in pairs.
3. The person leading the activity should remind everyone else to be good team players so they enjoy the game and help the game leader—leading everyone can be a bit scary if you’re not used to it.

Play the game
1. The game leader should tell everyone to sit in a circle on the floor. They should make sure that there’s enough space for people to run around the outside of the circle.
2. The game leader should choose four different types of fruit. They should walk around the circle, tap people on the shoulder, and give them a fruit name. They should give the fruit names out in order (so every fourth person will be the same fruit).
[ALTERNATIVE: use the fruit-salad.pdf and print out enough for one per person, give these out instead of having them try to remember their fruit]
3. The game leader should check that everyone knows what fruit they are. They could ask each fruit to put their hands up in turn, or could ask if anyone doesn’t remember their fruit. If anyone’s forgotten their fruit, the game leader should work out what fruit they are, or just give them a new one.
4. The game leader should run a practice round. They should call out the name of one of the fruits. Anyone with that fruit name should get up, run around the edge of the circle, and sit down in a different place to where they were before.
5. The game leader should run practice rounds until they think everyone understands the rules and is ready to play.
6. The game leader should keep calling out fruits, and everyone should keep getting up and running around the edge when their fruit name is called.
7. If the game leader calls ’fruit salad’ everyone should stand up, run around the edge, and sit in a different space to the one they were in before.
8. The person leading the game should try different things to keep the game fun and make sure everyone’s interested. They should watch everyone carefully, so they can tell if they’re getting bored, or if the game is too easy or too difficult. We’ve included some ideas of what they could change, in case they need some inspiration.
9. Once the game leader has finished their turn at leading, everyone should give them a clap for trying their best to make the game fun. If there’s more than one person ready to be a game leader, make sure each leader doesn’t lead for too long so the players don’t get bored.

Different things to try
- Make it competitive—the last person to find a seat could be ‘out’ and have to join the team leader. The game leader should think about whether the people playing will enjoy this, or whether it would make it less fun. How will make sure the ‘out’ players don’t get bored?
- The game leader could make up a story—rather than just saying fruits, they could include them in a story about going shopping, or making and eating a fruit salad.
- The game leader could play tricks, by starting to say a fruit name and changing their mind, or ending up saying a different fruit. They could even call out fruits that aren’t in the game, or words that sound a bit like a fruit (for example, ‘great’ instead of ‘grape’).
- The game leader could speed up or slow down the game. Will they give everyone lots of time to run around and sit down before they call the next fruit, call them one after another, or even set another fruit off before one has finished?
- The game leader could call fruits in pairs.
- The game leader could tell the fruits how to move each time they call their name, for example, crawling, jumping, or tiptoeing. They’ll have to think about actions everyone can do without hurting themselves or taking too long.

Reflection
- This activity gave everyone a chance to think about what makes a great leader, and gave some people the chance to give it a go. The game leaders should tell everyone what they enjoyed about leading the game. Did they find anything tricky? What did the game leaders think about when making decisions? Did they just think about what they wanted, or did they look at everyone else and think about them?
- This activity also needed everyone to work together—including by working with the game leader to make sure they could make the game fun for everyone. How did you help the game leader out? Maybe you listened carefully, and kept quiet when they were talking, or maybe you didn’t challenge their rules. Did the game leader do a good job? Don’t forget to tell them what they did well and what they were good at.

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