The theme for the playbox I did with Alyssa was called Learning Through Movement. The planning process of this was quite difficult because we didn't have a clear idea as to what the theme meant and we eventually took our own spin on the theme. We knew going in that people were going to make comments beforehand about getting up and moving and being active at 5:00 at night, so that is what brought up the idea of doing a movement activity without doing the typical movements that people would think of. Our original idea was to do a musical chair game, but with silent cues and no music type of thing. We chose not to do that because of the giant pole in the center of the room.
The human knot idea was created because we looked at the weather and because it was going to be nice out we decided that we were going to do the activity outside and make the class even complain more. I think the activity went great and we got across the ideas that we wanted to get across. We wanted to get across verbal cues and nonverbal cues, as well as team building skills. If I was to do this activity again I would probably make it more clear to not start until we gave the okay to. I feel that some of the instructions got lost amongst some people because they went into the untying before actually hearing the instructions and what changes there were between the rounds.
Overall, I think it went very well and I believe we got our message across and it was a fun way to start the evening and gave a good energy towards our guest speaker for the night.
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