Rope III
How are your knots?
Keep up the practice.
Having several retired (meaning no longer used for holding humans off the ground) lengths of rope around is a great way to add props and activities to your program.
Some common ways to use rope in activities.
Boundaries
There are many time that a clear and defined area to play in helps the group. This may contain a group of kids or limit the area that a team operate in. Lay the rope out in the desired space and its like an instant wall. The fishermen's knot is extremely well suited for tying two ends together. Need to adjust? The fishermen's knot slides! Use one rope to tie the knot around the other. Repeat the process so the two knots will toward each other when the loose ends are pulled.
Turn Style
This is a great game to get a group to talk through brainstorming and implementing ideas. It usually follows the classic storming, forming, norming (performing) pattern. The rope is used as a large jump rope. The object is to get the team from one side to the other with out touching the moving rope, in as few swings or turns as they can. The group will need to set a goal and then work to achieve that goal.
(no jumping needed in this activity)
Spaghetti Soup
Using the fishermen's knot from above tie the ends of your rope together. this will create a single loop. I like to coil of bundle the rope together so the whole of the rope is laying together no more than two feet in diameter. I have the team each say something that they can bring to the group for the benefit of all. Then grab a section of the rope coil, across from them, with both hands so that their hands (an individual's right and left) can touch their own thumbs together while holding the rope. When every one is holding a section of rope, they must then untangle the rope without letting go.
Keep up the practice.
Having several retired (meaning no longer used for holding humans off the ground) lengths of rope around is a great way to add props and activities to your program.
Some common ways to use rope in activities.
Boundaries
There are many time that a clear and defined area to play in helps the group. This may contain a group of kids or limit the area that a team operate in. Lay the rope out in the desired space and its like an instant wall. The fishermen's knot is extremely well suited for tying two ends together. Need to adjust? The fishermen's knot slides! Use one rope to tie the knot around the other. Repeat the process so the two knots will toward each other when the loose ends are pulled.
Turn Style
This is a great game to get a group to talk through brainstorming and implementing ideas. It usually follows the classic storming, forming, norming (performing) pattern. The rope is used as a large jump rope. The object is to get the team from one side to the other with out touching the moving rope, in as few swings or turns as they can. The group will need to set a goal and then work to achieve that goal.
(no jumping needed in this activity)
Spaghetti Soup
Using the fishermen's knot from above tie the ends of your rope together. this will create a single loop. I like to coil of bundle the rope together so the whole of the rope is laying together no more than two feet in diameter. I have the team each say something that they can bring to the group for the benefit of all. Then grab a section of the rope coil, across from them, with both hands so that their hands (an individual's right and left) can touch their own thumbs together while holding the rope. When every one is holding a section of rope, they must then untangle the rope without letting go.
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