Need some ideas if anyone can help?

teabag29

My daughters psychologist is coming tomorrow for her 3rd appt out of 8 and shes asked both me and my daughter to think of a team building game we can play (we have to pick 1 each). I have looked on the net but all the team building games I can see need atleast 4 people and there will only be 3 of us in total. Does anyone have any ideas?She said to look on the net for ideas but cant find anything

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

How about getting a treasure hunt going? You could both work together to reveal the answers (So some that your child would know but you might not and vice versa)

brians_daughter

Anythng she enjoys doing could be used as team building IMO.

How old is she? One technique we use with younger children in their own home is a treasure hunt? dunno if shes too old or young for this?

Look around the home write on cards say 15 items around the home easily accessable and you put them in a bag, pull one out at a time and then assist in finding them. Say some of the things are in her room so then she would give instructions as to where you and the psychologist can find these items.. you do the same with things in your room and the pschcologist helps with things in say the living room etc

or making a simple puzzle whilst 1 of you is blindfolded with the others giving directions? You dont have to make it complex and simple things that she is already used to doing (but with a twist ie the puzzle blindfolded with the rest of the teams help for eyes) can be used again and again if team building is an appropriate activity to be working on at home

brians_daughter

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel wrote: »

How about getting a treasure hunt going? You could both work together to reveal the answers (So some that your child would know but you might not and vice versa)

Great minds lol

McKneff

Strange you should post that, only last night my daughter in law was talking about 'playtime' with her two girls.

She has lots of off cuts of silky material and because they live as far away from the seaside as you can, they brought the seaside to the house.

Bluey, greeny material for the sea, beige/yellow for the sand. rocks were brown/black, dollies/teddies were the people, some paddling, some sunbathing. sunglasses/ cardboard cut out icecream van/ use your imagination I thought it was absolutely brilliant.

WestonDave

Something I thought of last night in a completely different context is to do with coins. One of you is blindfolded and has a selection of coins, the other one has a card with something on it that you want to buy with an amount on it - say a packet of Polos for 67p. The one with the card has to decide what coins make up that amount whilst the blindfold one has to hand over the coins by feel alone. So you might say I need one 50p, one 10p, one 5p and one 2p. The third person could act as shopkeeper and hand over the items when you get it right. Its not that brilliant but its something you could use.

peachyprice

I don't know where you're having your meetings, but how about a maze where one of has to guide the other through giving directions to the other person who is blindfolded. You could have a reward at the end to make it fun.

If at home you could set it up with furniture, if it's at a development centre they often have those large blocks you could use.

This is a great game for strengthening communication and building trust.

teabag29

Thanks guys, some good ideas. Dd is 13 but learning and emotionally is fuctioning at around age 7-8. We are having the meetings at home

heretolearn_2

how about hunt the thimble? My son used to love this so much. One hides something and the other has to find it with help from 'getting hotter' (nearer) 'getting colder' (further away) it gets quite silly with 'no! you are freezing cold' or 'ooh now you are going to burn yourself!' and you can just go OTT. It's good for cooperation and communication as well as good fun.

Tiddlywinks

How about baking muffins - choosing flavour combinations, weighing and mixing ingredients, filling cases, watching and timing them and then putting them out to cool.... then discussing how the combinations worked out by eating them .

You could always ice them as well - that's always good fun and lots to talk about.

It will get your organising and working together to plan and execute and then enjoy the fruits of your labour. We used to use this to get kids communicating as there isn't much face to face work - but lots of side by side discussions.

Tish_P

Get them to work together to build a bridge between two tables out of dry spaghetti and sellotape, and then see how much weight it can hold up.