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Description

Communication is especially important for people to be able to work well together. Use your senses in this team sorting game.

Resources

Neckers

Instructions

Everyone should line up in height order, from smallest to tallest. They can talk, look and move—and everyone should join in, including the grown ups! The person leading the game should time how long it takes everyone to get in the right order.

Everyone should talk about how they got into the right order, and how easy or difficult it was.

Everyone should mix themselves up, so they’re in a random order again.

Everyone should gently tie their scarves over their eyes.

Neckers work perfectly for this, or you could use sleep masks or ask people to close their eyes without peeking.

Now try to line up in height order again. This time, they’ve lost the use of one of their senses, so they’ll have to rely on other senses, such as talking, or (carefully!) touching each other’s heads. The person leading the game should time everyone to see how long it takes now.

It doesn’t matter too much if anyone can see a little bit or peeks. It’s still tricky to get the whole group working together.

The person leading the game should reveal the two times. Everyone should think about how they found the second time. Was it easier or harder? How did they communicate? If they want to everyone could play again with another order for the line, such as alphabetical order. It’s much easier if you can see the person next to you and you know their name!

Take off the scarves and then everyone should mix themselves up, so they’re in a random order again.

Everyone's going to do it one more time, but this time you'll lose the sense of hearing. Everyone will have to do either without making any noise, so person leading the game shouldn't be able to hear each other speak or whisper, or with everyone wearing ear defenders.

This time everyone needs to line up in date of birth order from January to December. Again they’ll have to rely on other senses, such as sight. The person leading the game should time everyone to see how long it takes now.
Everyone should think about how they found doing the task in silence. Was it easier or harder? How did they communicate?

Tags

• communication
• game
• senses

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