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Freshly Squeezed
Supplies:
An orange for each participant (or clementine, satsuma, tangerine, etc..)
Baby wipes or towels for each participant
Set-Up:
Find a location where everyone can have access to the floor, and enough room to spread themselves out.
Play:
Direct the participants to roll the oranges around in their hand to loosen the skin, then to peel it off.
Have the participants sit on their backs with their hands behind them, and their feet flat. They are to select one hand to place the orange under, with their palm open and flat on top of it. Tell the participants that they are going to slowly balance themselves upon the orange. If at any time they squish the object, making orange juice, they get to watch the remainder of the group (and they get to clean themselves up). Additionally, if at any point in time, if a body part that has been eliminated touches the ground, the participant is also eliminated.
The following is a sequence of progression to eliminate participants:
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Raise up your bodies so that the only part touching is your feet, one hand, and one hand with an orange under it.
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Raise up the same foot as your orange hand (so if your right hand is on the orange, raise your right foot
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Raise up your palm on the other hand
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Put the palm down, and only raise your fingers
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Remove your other hand
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Balance on the heel of your foot
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If somehow, you still have members competing, its a waiting game, to see who loses balance first.
Extra Ideas:
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In place of oranges, you can use eggs or water balloons. Or if youre trying to have a non-wasteful approach, use those water soaked mesh balls.
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Use this as a starting point for a discussion about stress.
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As the orange is stressed, the result is a squishy, sticky mess.
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What are some stressors for you?
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What do you need to balance?
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The result of a stressed orange is something valuable, if it can be contained: orange juice!
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Are there any benefits of being stressed?
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For a different positioning of the orange, have all the participants stand with a table near them. Have them place one hand on an orange on the table, and lift one leg. Then have them stand on their toes, and wait it out.
Chocolate Coated Challenge
Supplies:
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There is a certain candy manufacturer that produces certain candies in a variety of flavors: plain, peanut, peanut butter, pretzel, dark chocolate, almond, etc Purchase 2 or 3 different varieties.
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Masking tape (if playing indoors) or sidewalk chalk (if outdoors)
Set-Up:
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Create a grid using the tape or chalk. The size depends on your group, but should be roughly big enough to hold most of the participants.
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Pour some of each bag of candy into a bowl, and shake it up
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Divide your participants into two equal teams, and have each participant randomly take 1 candy out of the bowl.
Play:
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The leader reaches into the bowl, and chooses a candy (ie red pretzel candy)
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If any participants on either team has a candy that matches, they get to select a space in the grid.
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If nobody matches that candy, the leader disposes of or consumes that candy, and selects another one.
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The game plays like tic-tac-toe. If any team gets three in a row across, vertically, or diagonally, they win.
Extra Ideas and notes:
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Take into account food allergies of your group. If anybody is highly allergic to peanuts, consider using taffy or marbles instead.
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To make game play move more quickly, direct participants to grab 2 or 3 candies initially, so that they have multiple back-ups.
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If there is ever a tie (2 players have a yellow dark chocolate candy), paper, rock, scissors decides who gets to step into the grid first.
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