Contributed by: Wendy Baker
Games Leader, Among Other Things
wbaker@redden.on.ca
NEWSPAPER GAME
This is a Co-Operative Memory Game
Purpose: To test powers of co-operation and memory.
Method: Give each girl their own newspaper, magazine, junk mail,
advertisement, etc.... anything you can get free..... you need one for each
girl plus one to cut up.
In advance cut and paste onto a separate sheet the number of ads or stories
etc as there are girls.
Play: Say to girls: "This is a co-Operative Memory Game: I have given
you all the same newspaper. I want you to study this page which has (7,[editor's note: the number of girls in Wendy's unit])
ads, stories etc, known in newspaper language as a "Lay-Out" or "Proof"
page. You have 3 minutes to study it carefully. I want you to reproduce
my page without looking at it again. You have 10 minutes to finish your
"Proof".
Equipment required: GLUE STICKS, EXTRA PAPER, SCISSORS
Before Hand: Make a master Proof page....
Question:
Did they produce more than 1?
Did they each remember one ad?