Requirements
people
pen and paper
Objective
to show how something said in the beginning of a group can turn into something different at the end of the group.
Description
Don’t Gossip
This teaches that one thing can be changed into something different.
Have the children sit in a circle.
The leader will read off a card and whisper into the first ear.
The children continue to whisper until it comes back to the leader.
The last child says out loud what he/she heard.
The leader shows the card.
Usually there is a difference.
You can only repeat the phrase to someone else once. That’s it.
Here is the catch. While others are whispering Û_you can sing a song to make it more distracting since in every day life there are usually things going on while we talk to others.
Example sentence:
Sally ran to the store and hurt the leg of her mother’s other girl who was eating pizza.
