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Perseverance Activities

The document provides instructions for 6 team building activities involving balloons, marbles, rope jumping, drawing descriptions, flipping a tarp, and duplicating block structures. The activities encourage cooperation, coordination, communication, and problem solving skills. Each activity lists materials needed and step-by-step directions, with suggestions for making the activities more challenging over time.

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Perseverance Activities

The document provides instructions for 6 team building activities involving balloons, marbles, rope jumping, drawing descriptions, flipping a tarp, and duplicating block structures. The activities encourage cooperation, coordination, communication, and problem solving skills. Each activity lists materials needed and step-by-step directions, with suggestions for making the activities more challenging over time.

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  • Balloon Pass: Describes a team-building activity involving passing a balloon around a circle without using hands.
  • Circle of Silence: Outlines an activity where participants pass a can with marbles in silence, testing non-verbal communication skills.
  • Photo Finish: Instructs a synchronization activity where a group must jump over a rope in unison.
  • Art Chain: Details a drawing activity that emphasizes communication and interpretation skills among team members.
  • Magic Carpet: Explains an exercise where participants must flip a tarp they are standing on without stepping off it, promoting creative problem-solving.
  • Sneak a Peek: Describes a task where teams attempt to replicate a hidden structure from memory, enhancing spatial awareness and teamwork.

Balloon Pass

Materials:
• 2 balloons (or more), 2 unsharpened pencils for each
student
Directions:
1. Blow up 1 balloon.
2. Get into a circle, each student holding 2 pencils.
3. Pass the balloon around the circle, with the balloon
only touching the pencils.

Don’t:
• Touch the balloon
Want More of a Challenge?
• Time the group and try beating your time
• Divide into 2 groups an race
• Try having each student use only 1 pencil
Circle of silence
Materials:
• 1 blindfold, 1 can with marbles in it
Directions:
1. Stand in a circle with 1 blindfolded person in the middle.
2. Pass the can of marbles around the circle without it being
heard by the blindfolded person.
3. The blindfolded person must point to the can when he/she
hears it.
4. Try to make it all the way around the circle as fast as
possible.
Don’t:
• Empty the can of marbles
• Speak while the can is in motion
Want More of a Challenge?
• Try to beat your time with different blindfolded students
Photo Finish
Materials:
• 1 long rope
Directions:
1. Assign one person as the challenge master. This person
can not speak, but must decide when the group has
completed the challenge successfully. This person may
change throughout the challenge
2. Stand in on one side of the rope
3. All members must step over the rope at the exact same
time
4. If one person is out of sync, the group must start over.
Don’t:
• Move the rope
Want More of a Challenge?
• Try to jump over the rope at the same time
Materials:
Art chain
• 2 pieces of paper, 2 pencils, timer
Directions:
1. Assign one person as the artist and one person as the
interpreter.
2. Line up in a straight line with the artist at one end and the
interpreter at the other.
3. The artist has 30 seconds to draw a picture.
4. After 30 seconds the 2nd person in line must describe the
picture to the 3rd. The 3rd person describes the picture to the
4th and so on until the interpreter hears the description.
5. the interpreter must try to reCreAte the Artist’s piCture.
Don’t:
• Look at the picture (only the artist and 1st person can see it)
Want More of a Challenge?
• Change the artist and interpreter
Magic Carpet
Materials:
• 1 large tarp (or sheet)
Directions:
1. Lay the tarp on the ground.
2. All students should stand on the tarp.
3. Flip the tarp over so all students are standing on
the other side without stepping off. If a person
comes off the tarp, start over.
Don’t:
• Step off the tarp
Want More of a Challenge?
• Use a smaller tarp
Sneak
Materials:
a Peek
• 2 identical sets of building blocks, divider, timer
Directions:
1. One person builds a structure with the blocks behind the
divider
2. The rest of the group tries to duplicate this structure
without seeing it.
3. One person from the group may go over and look at the
structure for 10 seconds, then report back to the group.
4. You may send over each member of the group once for 10
seconds each.
Don’t:
• Touch the original structure
• Go look at the structure more than once
Want More of a Challenge?
• Try to do this without speaking

Balloon Pass Directions: 1. Blow up 1 balloon. 2. Get into a circle, each student holding 2 pencils. 3. Pass the balloon aro
Circle of silence Directions: 1. Stand in a circle with 1 blindfolded person in the middle. 2. Pass the can of marbles around
Photo Finish Directions: 1. Assign one person as the challenge master. This person can not speak, but must decide when the g
Art chain Directions: 1. Assign one person as the artist and one person as the interpreter. 2. Line up in a straight line w
Magic Carpet Directions: 1. Lay the tarp on the ground. 2. All students should stand on the tarp. 3. Flip the tarp over so a
Sneak a Peek Directions: 1. One person builds a structure with the blocks behind the divider 2. The rest of the group tries

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