Pass Two Bean Bags Around the Circle - Receive, Toss, Pass Synchronize The Clap

About:

This game providers a small but powerful challenge to have members of the group work together and achieve a specific result. Built into the game is that students engage with the student who is across the circle from them. Student often sit next to or near their closer friends. The person across the circle a person that they are less connected with. That is the person they have to work with.

Purpose:

Contact, Cooperation, Coordination particularly with a peer.

Sending and receiving and attending to cues with a partner.

Directions:

Do this after the group is good with 'Passing One Bean Bag Around The Circle - Receive, Clap, Pass and the students can generally keep rhythm through the process.
If they can't do the passing well, this will only lead to frustration.

Practice having the passing hand face down and the receiving hand face up.

Start with teacher and assistant model this. They sit across the circle from each other. They each have a bean bag in their right hand.
They clap the bean bag in the center line of their body. Pass the bean bag into their left hands. Then the pass to studnets on their left.

Two students across the circle from each other receive the bean bags. They need to look at each other, and coordinate clapping the bean bags at the same time.

This cueing can be done non verbally through movement and gesture or verbally using an agreed on Count off. saying "One, Two, Ready, Go".

This can be a good exercise to let group members try different approaches to counting off and then evaluate together how well they worked.

Glitches:

• Neither student pays attention to the other for the cue.
1. Ask each "how did you know when partner was going to clap their bean bag?"
2. Take over the problem
• Students can't synchronize the timing of the clap
1. Have them practice the count off.

Next Exercise:

Pass an instrument around the room- play a particular 'piece' such as pluck each string on a ukulele.

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