Burst the sad

Players: Group I & Group II Children

Values Inculcated

• To help children to discriminate between good and bad attitudes.
• To make children understand that by eliminating bad attitudes, happiness is achieved.

Materials required:

1. 4 balloons and strings per child (the colour should be such that elders can write on the balloons).
2. 1 marker
3. Music Player (optional)

Preparatory effort:

• The guru should speak about the importance of good attitudes in life to be happy.
• Explain that the game will help them to use the inner sense of discrimination and burst all the bad attitudes.

How to play:

1. Divide the children in to two teams.
2. Four blown up balloons tied around each child’s legs and wrists by the gurus.
3. Children should close their eyes, while the gurus go around them and quickly make alternative drawings of smiling or sad faces on the balloons (on each team there should be half balloons with smiling faces and half with sad faces).
4. Children now open their eyes.
5. Start the music, while each team should burst their team mates balloons with sad faces by sitting on them
   • none is allowed to burst the balloons with hands or other parts of body
   • none is allowed to burst their own balloons
   • child should keep carefully the balloons with smiling faces.
6. The first team losing all the balloons with sad faces should shout: “Happy! Happy!” and the music stops.
7. The guru totals only the blown up balloons left, on each team; Each smiling face = 1 point/ Each sad face = -1 point!