Checker Stacks
Overview
ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE: making new friends
Relationship Skills
ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE: making new friends
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION:
Some kids have difficulty maintaining a conversation with peers. This game requires kids to take turns and stay on topic.
To play this two-player game, you need only a set of stackable tokens — like checkers or poker chips — and an adult or peer group to help judge the relevance of each child’s contributions.
The game begins when Player One sets down a token and says something to initiate a conversation.
Next, Player Two responds with an appropriate utterance and places another checker on top of the first one.
The children keep taking turns to advance the conversation. How long can they sustain it? How tall can their stack become? When a player says something irrelevant or off-topic, the conversational flow is broken and the game is over.
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ACTIVITY MATERIALS
a good number that maintains a conversation | checkers |