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Description

Wide game where the young people must follow a wool and talcum powder trail to find their lost elephant.

Resources

20 pieces of Coloured Wool per Group
Talcum Powder
Plant labels/ tokens

Instructions

1. Tell a story to the players about the elephants who have escaped from the local circus, who have asked for the players help in getting the elephants back. The circus tell us that each elephant is wearing a coloured mat on it’s back, each mat matches one of the teams colours. So each team can look for the elephant wearing their teams colour on it’s back.

2. The players then follow a trail of wool, picking up their colours as they go. They must not pick up any other colours. You could tell them how many pieces they should find. The trail divides and finally the coloured wool disappears.

3. All that can be seen is large (talcum powder) elephants footprints on the ground. These all lead to one place where the elephants can clearly be seen, wearing tatty mats on their backs, (parents or leaders).

Extension
4. But the elephants have been caught by a gang of thieves who will sell them back to the cubs for #200 no more, no less. The players are then told that they can gather this money from around a certain bush. This money is the plastic plant tabs, stuck into the ground around the bush. Each label is marked with an amount of money. Each team must only take labels to exactly #200 and pay the thieves for their elephant . They then take their elephant back to the circus where there is sure to be a reward

Tags

• wide game

Badge Links

• Adventure - Activity
• Outdoors - Wide game