55. Puppet Pen
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Friendship
Indoor Game
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Each player pulls one of the strings attached to the team's pen to write a word
Activity details
Duration: 25 minutes
Participants: 4 - 24 people
Cost: $ 3
Age range: 7-25 years old
Equipments
- 1 ballpoint pen
- 1 sheet of paper for 5 people
- 5 pieces of string per pen, about 20cm (not necessarily the same length)
Goal:
Understand that you have to cooperate with others and adapt to each other in order to work as a team and achieve a common goal.
Steps
Tie 5 pieces of string around each ballpoint pen. Provide a ballpoint pen and its strings already tied per team.
- The objective is to be able to write a word as a team, as quickly as possible.
- Give a pen and sheet to each team. Then give orally the word to write
- Let them organize themselves to write. They are not allowed to touch the pen, only the strings attached to it.
- The first team to write the word legibly wins.
CONCRETELY :
- What did you find difficult?
- What did you like about this exercise?
FOR FURTHER :
Would you have preferred to do this exercise in pairs? at 8 ? Why ?
- Is there a role that you spontaneously assigned to one of the players: leader? to advise ? observer ? other ?
#teamwork
- To work as a team and achieve a common goal, a common good, we must cooperate with each other, adapt to each other.
...For example, in the Puppet Pen game, you mustn't pull too hard, think you can write on your own. We have to rely on the help of others
- This requires effort, self-control in one's actions and desires to overcome one's individual interest. This sometimes includes sacrificing or questioning one's own way of seeing, one's own way of doing things to integrate others and take everyone into account.
For example, in group work to be submitted for the teacher, everyone must have their place, trust the others: they can have good ideas, draw or lay out, be good speakers for the presentation... Everyone his place, I don't do everything alone; I don't leave all the work to others either.
Top tip: Achieve your goals and trust others to do the same!
String puppets :
Also called puppets, from the Italian fantoccio, they have a rigid and articulated body, moved by several wires attached to the arms and legs (at the knees). They are manipulated using wooden crosspieces, called splint crosses. Handling them requires a great deal of dexterity. The technique for linking a string puppet to its control is called ensecret, because each puppeteer has his own manufacturing secrets and know-how. The most refined are in Burma, where the complexity of the gestures of the characters requires articulated puppets sometimes up to the fingers20.
Constitution of 3 teams of 4, the girls had to write their team name on the A4 sheet. Great game, perfect for learning to coordinate and listen to each other.
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6 teams of three decided arbitrarily so that they mix. We taped the sheet to the ground so they wouldn't have to hold it. The word to write was "Together". At the end, debrief on cooperation, the need to come to an agreement before acting, not to go each in one direction without consulting each other... Pre-cut pieces of string to go faster.
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Awesome!! The young people loved it and laughed a lot and while they did not yet know each other very well within the teams, it required them to really cooperate and communicate. They had to write their team name that they had to choose, it allowed to anchor this name in their mind and to increase their feeling of belonging to this team.
The atmosphere was competitive between the teams and we gave them a time limit, so they tended to bring their hand closer to the pen to be more efficient.
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I organized several rounds with different words to make the activity last. it allowed us to reflect on the best way to proceed and to improve the technique. Two words were written in particular: thank you in Thai and then in English. After concluding on the game, in connection with this word, I continued with an individual reflection activity on gratitude and recognition.
Specify from the start that the strings must be held at the ends. The fingers tend to quickly approach the pen. We used markers to have a thicker line than a BIC. Some strings were slipping off the felt but that wasn't a huge problem.
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