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Dragon Egg Hunt

As we apply our skills

Activity
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Dragon Multi-skills

Let's Play

  • Make an obstacle course using any appropriate equipment available
  • Hide objects around the course
  • In teams of four, complete the course as a staggered relay (like the 100m relay) collecting as many objects as possible

Safety & Organisation

Ensure:

  • everyone knows how to complete the course safely
  • necessary arrangements are made if going to a new location
  • zones for less ambulant or wheelchair users as appropriate

Opportunities to

  • sustain activity over appropriate periods of time
  • begin to take more responsibility and begin to understand associated risks
  • co-operate in solving problems when working with others
  • start to ask relevant questions in order to improve and make progress
  • work as a team
  • develop observation skills

Questions

  • Which part of the course did you enjoy most?
  • Which part of the course did you find most difficult?
  • What could you practise to help you complete the course more easily?
  • What did you do to make sure your team worked well together?
  • What could you do as a team to work together more effectively next time?
  • If you could change the course, what would you change and why?

Changes to the activity

Change the:

  • Space

    • order of the course, add new features, repeat some sections

  • Task

    • relay to a central start (like 400m relay)
    • way the participants have to travel and the direction they travel in
    • point system for objects; consider a secret points system

  • Equipment

    • bigger, smaller, lower, higher, wider, narrower, longer, etc.

  • People

    • section of the course they complete; allow participants to choose which section they complete
    • complete in pairs or fours, connected in some way ensuring safety