Boomerang & indiaca

Topic
- Arts & crafts
Learning skills
- Creative thinking
- Fine motor skills
Activity type
- Crafting & constructing
- Physical distancing
Materials
- Basic
- Printable downloads
Age
- 6 - 11 years
- 12 - 14 years
>15 minutes
2 - 4 players
Intermediate
Medium
Small (office, pavement)

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Everything you need to play this game

Boomerang: a piece of cardboard, scissors, glue, coloured pencils /markers /crayons / paint...
Indiaca: balloons, cord or rubber bands, sand/ rice /couscous, feathers...
Educational game CRAFTS C2 Download crafts-c2.pdf (11.3mb)

A step-by-step guide to play the game

The players follow the instructions on the game board in chronological order.

A choice can be made between making a boomerang or an indiaca (see additional game info).

Play! The players throw the boomerang as if throwing a ball, with the folded corners pointing upwards, and/or bat the indiaca back and forth to each other using their hands and/or feet.

Extra game information

The red part of the game board illustrates how to make a boomerang, the blue part illustrates how to make an indiaca.

These are the steps to make the boomerang and the indiaca:

BOOMERANG:

Glue a paper sheet onto a piece of cardboard.
Cut out the two rectangular pieces of your boomerang.
Glue the two pieces onto each other, precisely in the middle, forming a cross.
Decorate the boomerang.
Fold up the four corners of the boomerang a little.

INDIACA:

Fill a balloon with sand, rice, couscous, … You can use the top part of a bottle as a funnel.
Tie three feathers together with a cord or a rubber band.
Push the bottom part of the feathers through the opening of the balloon, so it sinks into the filling.
To make the indiaca stronger, cut out the middle part of a balloon and stretch it over the filled balloon.
Close the opening with a cord or a rubber band.

Variations

To make the activity easier: make an example the players can look at and/or prepare the different parts of the boomerang/ indiaca in advance.

Specific learning objectives

Stimulate concentration.
Stimulate and develop fine motor skills.
Understand instructions based on illustrations.

What people said about this game

Andrei Craciun

Psychologist Save the Children Iasi RO

22 August, 2019

(1)

It's a nice way to create fun toys for children to play with even after the Mobile School is gone.

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