Re: I could use some spider activities

Posted by Mike(inTN) on 2/13/08

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This is a late response, but you could use it next year. It's a group-building
activity.

Have students in groups of eight to ten stand in a circle with their shoulders
touching. Tell them to put their hands into the center of the circle and take the
hands of two different people, neither of whom are standing next to them. Then
tell them that they can't let go of each other's hands (but they can rotate their
hands so they don't twist off!), and have the groups escape the tangled spider's
web so they form one big circle. (Tell them they are all insects trapped in the
web.)

Sometimes it takes a group a while to unravel, but when they do, applause
erupts from the group.

It's a wonderful group building game, because they feel like they worked as a
group to solve a seemingly impossible task.

Younger grades, use eight per group. Upper grades, use ten or eleven.

-Mike(inTN)

Posts on this thread, including this one

• I could use some spider activities, 10/19/07, by k-1 .
• Re: I could use some spider activities, 10/21/07, by mh.
• Re: I could use some spider activities, 10/21/07, by Mary.
• Re: I could use some spider activities, 2/13/08, by Mike(inTN).