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Practise being yourself and expressing your feelings with a fun game.
Courtesy of The Scout Association: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/express-yourself/
This activity was created with Boing Kids

Resources

- Cones or Hula Hoops
- Make sure you’ve risk assessed your meeting, and also have a COVID-19 safe risk assessment that’s been agreed by your line manager.
- Mark out a large circle with cones or hoops.
- Come up with a list of emotive situations (or read the ones below).

Instructions

1. Everyone should stand by a cone ready to start the game.
2. The person leading the game should shout out a situation that’s likely to make people feel something.
[Situations could include ‘playing this game’ or ‘eating your favourite food’. We’ve included some examples below. Try to use a variety of situations to encourage a range of emotions.]
3. Everyone should think about how that situation would make them feel. They should choose a cone somewhere else in the circle to move to, and move to it using their body to express their emotions.
[For example, they could skip to show happiness, jump to show excitement, or walk hunched over to show sadness. There’s no right or wrong answer here – anything goes!]
4. Once everyone’s got the hang of the game, people should take it in turns to shout out their own situations for everyone to react to.

Example situations
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- Playing a fun game
- Eating your favourite food
- Going to bed early
- Seeing your friends
- Going home after Cubs or Beavers
- Tidying up

Create the right atmosphere
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The key to learning through games isn’t winning or losing: it’s creating the right atmosphere. Try to create a space where everyone feels confident trying new things, finding out what works, and learning from what doesn’t work. Sometimes things might feel a bit chaotic – as long as everyone’s enjoying themselves and getting involved, you’re onto a winner.

There are three things you can change to get the right atmosphere: the task, the environment, or the individual.

If a game’s too easy (or it feels a bit boring), you could:
- make the task harder
- make the game area smaller
- add more obstacles
- give individuals different roles to do.

If a game feels too chaotic or difficult, you could:
- make the task simpler
- remove or change some equipment
- ask people to work together.

Tags

• emotions
• feelings

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