Exciting Warm-Up Game Boosts Energy & Laughter - Salt & Pepper
Exciting Warm-Up Game Boosts Energy & Laughter - Salt & Pepper is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Ask everyone in your group to stand on one side of a long line marked on the ground.
- Encourage people to spread themselves evenly along the line, within 30cm of the line.
- Identify one side of the line as ‘Salt’ and the other as ‘Pepper.’
- Loudly announce a series of calls such as “SALT, PEPPER, SALT, SALT…”
- Immediately upon each call, each person must jump to the correct side.
- If an individual makes an error, eg jumps to the wrong side of the line, they are eliminated.
- Each person aims to stay in the game for as long as possible.
- Salt & Pepper Exciting warm-up game to build energy & listening skills.
- As an exciting warm-up game, Salt & Pepper builds group energy through competition whilst creating laughter as unexpected mistakes are made.
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Ask everyone in your group to stand on one side of a long line marked on the ground.
Identify one side of the line as ‘Salt’ and the other as ‘Pepper.’
Salt & Pepper Exciting warm-up game to build energy & listening skills.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Exciting Warm-Up Game Boosts Energy & Laughter - Salt & Pepper. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask everyone in your group to stand on one side of a long line marked on the ground.; Identify one side of the line as ‘Salt’ and the other as ‘Pepper.’; ; Salt & Pepper Exciting warm-up game to build energy & listening skills.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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