The Dallas Orchestra
Create your own community melody and share it with the world on April 12th, the International Day for Street Children.
Game details
Everything you need to play this game
- Cardboard
- Coloured paper (3 colours)
- 9 empty cans
- A soft ball
Make it yourself
1
Step 1
Create 3 cardboard shelves
- Cut out 3 strokes of cardboard that will function as shelves
2
Step 2
Stick the shelves to the large cardboard
- Colour the background of the large cardboard in three different colours. You can use the coloured paper.
3
Step 3
Cover the 9 cans
- Cover each time 3 cans in a different colour, according to the background of the large cardboard.
4
Step 4
Stick images to the cans
- Three cans with the same colour have images on maths, drawing, comparing (cognitive skills).
- Three cans with the same colour have images on running/ carrying something/ doing the wheelbarrow (physical skills).
- Three cans with the same colour have images on throwing a ball in a bucket / catching a ball / balancing (psychomotor skills).
5
Good job!
A step-by-step guide to play the game
1
Divide the children in 2 teams and write the names of the teams on the blackboard or on a piece of paper in 2 columns, so you can write down the scores during the game.
2
Explain the game to the children and go over the different skills per category.
3
All children choose the talent/skill they think they're best at of the 9 skills depicted on the cans.
4
One child tries to hit the can picturing his chosen talent/skill with a soft ball.
5
The child will play the corresponding game against one child of the other team. If he hits a different can, he will play the game corresponding to that can anyways, since that way he can possibly discover new talents or skills.
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The child who wins the game, gets 1 point.
7
The game is over when all the players of the group have played a game. The team who scored the most points, wins.
Extra game information
On a cardboard background, 3 cardboard shelves are made in different colours. Each colour refers to a specific category of talents/skills: e.g.
- blue = cognitive,
- yellow = physical
- red = psychomotor skills.
On each shelf, there are 3 empty cans of the same colour, depicting an image of a specific talent/skill in that category, e.g.:
- Cognitive: maths/ drawing/ comparing
- Physical: running/ carrying something/ doing the wheelbarrow
- Psychomotor skills: throwing a ball in a bucket / catching a ball / balancing
Variations
You can easily vary the game by changing the pictures on the can and you can easily add different categories of talents and/or skills, e.g. creativity.
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