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New skill in 5 minutes - ideas, please?

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  • clearingout
    clearingout Posts: 3,290 Forumite
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    thanks ladyhawk - some good ideas there
  • Ladyhawk
    Ladyhawk Posts: 2,064 Forumite
    edited 26 January 2013 at 9:55PM
    How to say hello in 10 languages

    How to impersonate a log?

    How to knit (using big needles - obviously you'd need to cast on... But the old " in the rabbit hole, round the rabbit hole, through the rabbit hole and off" should be ok
    Man plans and God laughs...
    Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry. But by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it introduces the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.
  • pesky85
    pesky85 Posts: 183 Forumite
    A few basic words in French? Bonjour, Au Revoir, Je m'appelle...
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  • TeamLowe
    TeamLowe Posts: 2,406 Forumite
    British sign language alphabet? Or just his name in sign language.
    Little Lowe born January 2014 at 36+6

    Completed on house September 2013

    Got Married April 2011
  • Yorkie1
    Yorkie1 Posts: 11,998 Forumite
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    I use the knuckles trick but never heard the 9x table one before - love it and have learnt something!
  • meeps
    meeps Posts: 465 Forumite
    A simple magic trick?

    That's a cool homework.
  • Macca83_2
    Macca83_2 Posts: 1,215 Forumite
    Someone was trying to explain the knuckle trick to me the other day and I could not get my head round it. I don't think they quite understood it themselves, which didn't help. I still use the old, '30 days has September, April, June and November' rhyme.
  • Tigsteroonie
    Tigsteroonie Posts: 24,954 Forumite
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    Wow, I've learnt two things now - the knuckles trick for months (I just remember the rhyme!) and the 9x table on fingers, which is quite delightful!!

    I had a similar exercise on a training course about 15 years ago, I had to teach a task to a group of 4 people in 5 minutes. I got them to do fancy napkin folding.
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  • dizziblonde
    dizziblonde Posts: 4,276 Forumite
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    TeamLowe wrote: »
    British sign language alphabet? Or just his name in sign language.

    I was thinking something like how to finger-spell his name... unless he's got a really really long double barrelled first name and surname in which case it might be more of a 30 minute job!
    Little miracle born April 2012, 33 weeks gestation and a little toughie!
  • Macca83_2
    Macca83_2 Posts: 1,215 Forumite
    What about a little card or magic trick.
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