ROPE KNOTS Equipment: Length of rope about forty to fifty feet long
Concepts: Communication, cooperation
Objective: For the group to untie the knots without letting go of the rope
Task: Tie three simple slip through knots at about the quarter, half and three-quarter points. Instruct people to take hold of the rope with one hand, making sure that there are 2,3,4 people along each quarter of the rope. The task is then to untie the knots without letting go of the rope.
COUNTDOWN Equipment: none
Concept: Cooperation
Objective: Collaboratively countdown to 0.
Task: Someone must start at the top of the numbers (if there are 10 in the group then the number is 10) and then someone else (not sitting next to that person) must say the next lower number. You must countdown to 1. Do not sit in a circle and there are no assigned numbers. The leader says countdown and someone starts with the highest number. If two people call the same number at the same time, the leader calls out Cancel the Launch, and they start over. If there is too long a pause in the countdown the leader can cancel the launch.
