It was a great day for the first “Prop Soup” Day!!
About 20 members came and had fun sampling various kinds of delicious soup and creating new, revisiting, reinventing new games and initiatives. Networking, snow falling, hot soups and breads. It was great!!
As for the soup – thanks to Mike, Justin, Sharon, Jodi, Alex & Terry and Daniel and to Rich for a bagful of rolls and a few others who brought bread! Great way to spend a snowy afternoon!
The antics of 18 adventure folks at our first Prop Soup Event – 1/10/09!
Frankie
~Buzz Ring – how the heck does it work? Daniel proved to be a fast learner – Mike being a super teacher!
Rich
~Poppers purchased from PA’s new fitness programs –
We played “Gotcha!”
Best launching technique came from Daniel R – on the tip of the finger
Jodi
~Catch and throw a variety of balls using your shirt – group juggle, warp speed, etc…
Steve
Cards from Newtscards.com
~Groups of 4 or 5 at a table w/1 deck of cards each.
Shuffle 3 times
Pick a leader in the group
Take 6 cards out and put aside – do not look at them
60 seconds to turn over one card at a time onto a deck so one can see only 1 card at a time
Object – to determine what the 6 cards are that were pulled out at the start
60 seconds to plan strategy
When done, even if not all cards are seen, each group receives a 8.5×11 piece of paper with the 52 cards pictured on it and the group must mark which the 6 are “the” 6
We played w/3 per group – really challenging because there are 4 suits, tough to solve that way… but fun trying!
Play again to see if groups could better their scores – some did.
~Sort the cards by suit in Ace to King order
The first 2 teams done must place cards in Steve’s hands. If either team makes any mistake the other 3 teams win, which is what happened. It’s the Ace to King order that threw them.
Shirley
~In the dark, in a circle - smell contents in film canisters and find the person whose canister’s smell matches yours. Recap canisters. The lack of sight heightens the smell sense. Smells such as spices, scents, one was glue (we think), perfume, cologne, vinegar, etc
Cats and dogs lick their noses to help them smell more efficiently. So, wet your nose with a bit of the water that is going around and try again.
Keep in zip-lock bags for storage.
~Can play with sounds or numbers of coins in the canisters, too.
Scott
~Music – shaker eggs – chhhick - chhhick - chhick, buy or make, moving an egg between hands, between people, with less and less time between. The facilator chants the instructions. Adaptation includes like a Simon Says Phrase in there…like remove the word “shake”
1, 2, 3, 4, stop
Shake high, shake low, shake behind your head, shake it at your nose, shake it at your toes, dance with it.
Get a rhythm going with the motions and the rattle.
1, 2, 3, take an egg (pass from your left hand to your right)
1, 2, 3, pass an egg (pass from your right to the person’s on your right left hand
Continue
1, 2, take an egg (pass from your left hand to your right)
1, 2, pass an egg (pass from your right to the person’s on your right left hand
Continue
1, take an egg (pass from your left hand to your right)
1, pass an egg (pass from your right to the person’s on your right left hand
Continue
take an egg (pass from your left hand to your right)
pass an egg (pass from your right to the person’s on your right left hand
Continue
Every other person move to an inside circle, facing the out circle and continue rhythm
Scott~Word Jumbles
~Processing with keyboard keys
- Procession with all kinds of mini street signs laminated – both have interesting choices for debriefing, “why do you feel like a dead end sign?”
Eliza
~Twizzler Trains!
The best laugh of the afternoon – 2 teams partners link arms back to back and each group is attached to another with a Twizzler between the teeth (we used longer ones than the traditional size) – now race the trains around the place!
Shirley
~Global Village using 100 blocks – can use 100 of anything. Demographics of race, education, etc are called and the group move that number of the one hundred into piles to represent the demographic. For instance, if one of 100 worldwide is college educated the groups would be 99 and 1. Get the picture? Visualizes our world.
Scott
~Animal cutouts to discuss which ones we identify with and why. Animals can be paired up, with dicusccion around why they are paired, but always an odd cutout allows for debrief around being left out. I.e. the set of cutouts has all animals but one star, all colors of cutouts will pair up except for one single thats red, etc.
Sully
~15 people – each with a “spot” …spots are various colors…yellow, red, blue, green
The only Instructions: “1, 2, 3, 4, and 5…Go”
The group has to figure out what to do.
Solution: Make a pyramid with no two colors next to each other
Steve
~Bus Stop – He was the driver standing on a chair facing the group who are all lined up, one behind the other, facing him. Given two choices – MUST choose one and go to that side – Coke or Pepsi? Yankees or Red Socks?, etc..Facilitator points to each side with each choice. Like the bus but it requires no rope boundary. Participants don’t “step out of the bus” they step left or right of the centerline.
~Can play again with blindfolds to see if selections change to discuss peer pressure.
Blair
~6’ piece of webbing – how many activities can we come up with? His new favorite prop to travel with.
Limbo, jump rope, comfort circles, race car, yurt circle, boundaries, rope jousting, tug of war, rope push, electric fence, roller coaster, shapes, hula hoop pass, star, blind polygon, blind walk, warp speed, worm holes, knots to undo, harness, mergers, intro roll-up, egg retrieval, toxic waste, Others?