Follow the Master
Genre – Outdoor Game
Learning Objectives:
- An exciting activity that helps children overcome hesitation and shyness and facilitates effortless mingling, by bonding with their peer group.
Values:
- Concentration
- Alertness
- Problem-solving
- Cooperation
- Communication
- Team-spirit
- Leadership
- Creativity
- Presence of mind
Materials Required:
- Music (optional)
How to play:
- Children form a circle.
- The Guru taps on the shoulder of a child and prompts her to start an action (eg. laughing), which the others have to follow.
- While that action (laughing) is on, suddenly the guru taps another child on the shoulder.
- Now this child has to replace the old action with a new one (ex.clapping) and the rest of the children have to change over to that new action.
- The game is continued in this manner till the time permits.
Tips to gurus:
- No action is to be repeated.
- Those children who are not attentive or alert enough to change over to the next action are declared out of the game.
- 6-8 actions for each set of 20 children, after which the next set of 20 play the game with altogether different actions.