Designate a place in the room to be a river. Appoint different students to be two chickens, two foxes, two bags of grain and two farmers. The farmers have to physically carry the chickens, foxes and bags of grain across the river. The farmers must travel together. Reprinted by permission from Building Community in Youth Groups , copyright 1985 by Group Publishing, Inc., Box 481, Loveland, CO 80539.
Students work together in order to achieve a goal.
Everyone else forms a circle around him and tries to steal the treasure without being tagged. Smaug, the mighty, can range as far from his jewels as he dares. If you get touched by him, you are instantly frozen in place until the end of the game. Name three different strategies that could be used to solve this problem. This is an activity which allows the students to have fun while learning to cooperate with one another.