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Description

Work as a team and test observation skills with a frozen scene game.

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/freeze-frame-game/

Resources

10 minutes

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.

Change the level of challenge
Make it easier by encouraging people in the circle to make more noticeable changes, for example they could all lie down or raise their arms. Conversely, the smaller the changes – like one person crossing their fingers or another closing their eyes – the more challenging the game will be.

Instructions

Play the game
1. Everyone should and sit in a distanced circle.
Larger groups may want to split into two or three circles.
2. The person leading the activity should tell everyone to choose a position and hold it still.
They could sit, kneel, or pretend to have a conversation with the person next to them.
3. One player, the spotter, should leave the circle for a short time.
4. Once the spotter can’t see what’s happening, the rest of the circle should change or move something. The aim is to work together to make tiny changes the spotter can’t pinpoint. To give the spotter a fair chance, people shouldn’t make too many changes at once.
People could turn a scarf from back to front, sit with their legs out straight, or take a shoe off.
5. The spotter should then return to the group. They should try to work out the differences between the group before they left and now, as quickly as possible.
Add a competitive element to the game by timing how long it takes for different spotters to work out what’s changed in the circle.
6. Repeat until everyone has had a chance to test their freeze frame abilities and their observational skills.

Reflection
- When everyone was part of the circle, they needed to work as team to change their positions or actions subtly. How did they decide what changes to make? Did they take it in turns to make suggestions, or did certain people take the lead and direct everyone else?
- When they were the volunteer, they tested their observational skills to figure out what had changed in the circle. How did they go about identifying the changes? Did they study each person individually to spot differences, or view the entire circle as a whole to get a sense of what had shifted?
- Everyone should feel like they’ve got to know other people in their section better. At the end of the game, they should close their eyes and see if they can remember the faces and names of as many people as possible.

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