Active Tag Game to Promote Fun & Strategic Decisions - Mad Chefs
Active Tag Game to Promote Fun & Strategic Decisions - Mad Chefs is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Nominate one person for every five people in your group to be a ‘chef.’
- Identify half of the chefs as ‘good’ and the other half as ‘mad.’
- Distribute a pen to every chef and a paper plate to every other person.
- When ready, invite your chefs to distribute themselves evenly throughout the playing space.
- Instruct the rest of your group to visit as many of the good chefs as they can while avoiding being tagged by the mad chefs.
- Good chefs are instructed to write the name of one food on the plate of each person who visits them.
- Announce that up to three (or four) people may queue in front of a good chef and not be tagged.
- Every time someone is tagged by a mad chef, they will have one of their food items struck off their plate.
- Mad Chefs Active tag game to create strategy & friendly competition.
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Prompts to use +
Identify half of the chefs as ‘good’ and the other half as ‘mad.’
When ready, invite your chefs to distribute themselves evenly throughout the playing space.
Good chefs are instructed to write the name of one food on the plate of each person who visits them.
Every time someone is tagged by a mad chef, they will have one of their food items struck off their plate.
Mad Chefs Active tag game to create strategy & friendly competition.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Active Tag Game to Promote Fun & Strategic Decisions - Mad Chefs. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Identify half of the chefs as ‘good’ and the other half as ‘mad.’; When ready, invite your chefs to distribute themselves evenly throughout the playing space.; Good chefs are instructed to write the name of one food on the plate of each person who visits them.; Every time someone is tagged by a mad chef, they will have one of their food items struck off their plate.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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