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Description

Tangled is the tale of Rapunzel, a determined and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. She is kidnapped as an infant by Mother Gothel and locked away in a tower deep in the woods. As she grows up, Rapunzel dreams of understanding the significance of the floating lights that always appear in the sky on her birthday.

When the kingdom's most wanted bandit, Flynn Rider, hides out in her tower, Rapunzel seizes the opportunity. She strikes a deal with him and the unlikely duo set off on an action-packed adventure, with the resourceful Rapunzel using her strong hair and a frying pan to escape the men一and horse一pursuing Flynn.

After years of dreaming, she finally sees the lights: floating lanterns released by her parents and the kingdom every year in her honor. Through her adventures, Rapunzel rediscovers her identity as the kingdom’s Lost Princess, and finds her way back to the castle, where she is reunited with her family and becomes the princess she was meant to be.

Resources

30-50cm of rope or string per Squirrel (and enough in total to be able to skip with once tied together.

Scissors to cut the rope

Enough space to be able to skip with a 3-5m length of skipping rope

Instructions

All tied up

1. Gather everyone in a circle or their smaller groups. Chat to everyone about Tangled, who Rapunzel is and what happens in the story.

You could discuss things, such as where she lives, why she lives there, what animals are in the story and the names of other characters. You could also get everyone to name their favourite part of the story.

2. Next, show everyone the short pieces of rope. Ask everyone what it reminds them of from the story of Rapunzel, but what might be wrong with it?

Hopefully everyone should say it looks like her hair, but it’s too short and looks like only pieces of it.

3. Ask people to think about how you can make her hair longer again. Ask a few people for their ideas.
4. Once everyone’s thought of their ideas, you can say how you’re going to work together to tie the rope together.
5. Now, have a chat about knots and how they help tie things together. Ask if anyone knows names of any knots or how to do them

Has anyone tied any knots recently? Hopefully they might have tied their shoes, a friendship bracelet or their Scouts Necker!

6. Explain that everyone’s going to work together to tie the pieces of Rapunzel’s hair back together using a reef knot.
7. Show the group how to tie a reef knot and give everyone a few minutes to practise.
8. When everyone’s ready, ask the group to work together and tie all the pieces of rope together to make one long piece of rope.
9. Here’s a reef/square knot video to help show everyone how to tie the knot if needed. Make sure there are enough adults or young leaders around to help anyone if they need it.

Skipping round the tower

1. Explain to everyone that now they’ve tied all the hair pieces together, they’re going to use it to learn to skip.
2. Have a chat about what skipping is and how they’ve to try to jump over the rope.

You could talk about how Rapunzel’s brave and left the tower to try something new, so everyone can be brave, just like Rapunzel, and try skipping.

3. An adult or young leader could show everyone how to skip. Make sure there’s an adult on either end of the rope to swing it round.
4. Give everyone the opportunity to have a go at skipping.

If anyone’s a bit unsure about taking part, start spinning the rope slowly to build up their confidence and get faster when they have.

5. You could see if you could fit more than one person in the skipp

Tags

• Be active
• Disney
• knots
• rapunzel
• rope
• skipping

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