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Description

Actions speak louder than words in this shape making leadership challenge. Who’ll get their team in shape first?

Resources

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Instructions

Get the teams ready

Everyone should get into a group of between five and ten people. All the groups should be roughly the same size.

Each group should find their own space to stand or sit.

Each team should choose a team leader—they may decide to nominate people in their group, or people could volunteer.

It’s OK if people want to take it in turns to be leader. You could play the game several times over a few meetings to make this easier.

Play the game

The person leading the game should give the team leaders a simple shape, for example, a square, or the letter ‘E’. The person leading the game could whisper the shape, or they could show the team leaders a drawing of the shape.

The team leaders should return to their teams. Without making any noise (and without touching anyone) the team leaders should direct the rest of their team to make the shape they were given by the person leading the game. The rest of their team can’t make any noise either.

Each team should follow their team leader’s instructions to make the shape. It’s up to the team leader whether they stand up, sit down, or lie on the floor.

When the team leader is happy with their team’s shape, they should put their hand up. The person leading the game should check their shape.

The first team ready with a well-formed shape wins a point.

Everyone should keep playing, as the person leading the game changes the shapes. They could make them trickier as the game goes on.

Tags

• game
• teamwork

Badge Links

• Skills - Problem solving
• Teamwork - Goal