Playground Shuffleboard
Playground Shuffleboard is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Using tape or chalk create a shuffle board about six feet long with three lines at three feet, four feet and five feet. Mark the point values in each space.
- Each team gets four bean bags (or similar object, such as a small frisbee).
- Teams use Rock Paper Scissor to determine who will slide their bean bags first.
- Players may place their bean bag behind the start line and slide it across the board one at a time.
- The goal is to get all your teams bean bags into the zones with the higher points.
- Once everyone has slide their bean bags, each team tallies their points.
- Players can hit any bean bag on the board when it is their turn.
- A bean bag does not have to be fully inside a zone to get those points. If it is in two zones, pick the zone it is in more or rock paper scissors to determine the zone.
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Using tape or chalk create a shuffle board about six feet long with three lines at three feet, four feet and five feet. Mark the point values in each space.
Teams use Rock Paper Scissor to determine who will slide their bean bags first.
Players may place their bean bag behind the start line and slide it across the board one at a time.
Once everyone has slide their bean bags, each team tallies their points.
Players can hit any bean bag on the board when it is their turn.
A bean bag does not have to be fully inside a zone to get those points. If it is in two zones, pick the zone it is in more or rock paper scissors to determine the zone.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Playground Shuffleboard. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Using tape or chalk create a shuffle board about six feet long with three lines at three feet, four feet and five feet. Mark the point values in each space.; Teams use Rock Paper Scissor to determine who will slide their bean bags first.; Players may place their bean bag behind the start line and slide it across the board one at a time.; Once everyone has slide their bean bags, each team tallies their points.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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