Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Is my brother/sister a potato head?

The keywords in the title of this evening were brother/sister and potato. Brother/sister, because the topic focuses on the relationship and avoiding conflicts in the family, mainly with your brother(s) or sister(s). Potato, because nearly all games had potatoes in them.
The first game was the potato push, where you had to push a potato with your nose or forehead to the other side of the hall while doing a wheelbarrow race.


After that we did a game called 'HOT POTATO' which is pass the parcel with three potatoes. It is always a thrilling moment to reveal who gets the chocolate bar, who gets the chippies and who gets the cold potato mash...

We also did a competition like on the golden shears: the speed peel. No shearing , but peeling. on your marks, competitors ready, go!



Here the champion is peeling his potato!

We talked about how to avoid conflicts and how to resolve conflicts in a simple, quick manner, CLAP.

C stands for Calm down, when you calm down, half the conflict is resolved, because you are more eager to
L, Listen to each other and talk about the issue.
A stands for Answer back to the explanation given by the other and
P, Propose a solution, Please.


We did a little role play, where the CLAP way was used, and the conflict avoided.

After a short game of dodgeball we grabbed the potatoes and the peelers again and started to sculpture each others heads in the potatoes, making potato heads. Most looked really good!



The potatoes were cut into chippies and deepfried as supper, Yummy!

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