Training course More Action Please Compendium of Games

The Training Course “MAP - More Action Please!“aimed to empower youth workers, youth leaders, volunteers, activists in NGO with competences and skills useful for leading international youth projects.

Through NFE and Informal Education participants had chance to plan and organize thematic workshops and activities as well as games, with the aim to know and learn from each-other new methods for the implementation of youth international project, and to improve as well, the quality of project within Erasmus+ - KA1.

Non-formal methods were also used for build a cohesive working group and set a successful cooperation. Activities such as role playing, brainstorming, simulation and workshops have encouraged their sense of initiative, entrepreneurship and active citizenship. Self-reflection and evaluation moments have fostered participants' understanding of their own skills and abilities.

This project involved 22 participants from 11 countries: Armenia, Croatia, Estonia, France, Georgia, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine and have seen the participation of youngsters with fewer opportunities.

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Games are a good and useful practise to build a cohesive group and as well as for have fun and learn. Usually they help to get to know someone better and to establish good feelings and nice atmosphere into a working group. Games help project to be more inclusive and the learning more effective.

During the Training Course More Action Please, participants had chance to exchange and practise games and as well to create some.

This activity grouped together participants with the aim of creating games to raise awareness on: Social Inclusion

Social Awareness Intercultural Learning

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Social Inclusion

The aim was to create different types of activities in order to promote the incusion of children/youngsters which are experiencing social exclusion. Activities will lead players to get to know each other better, interact in the group and to learn more about social values.

Target group: from13 to 22 years old living in one country but having different nationalities. (can be migrants, minorities, children with social and/or economical difficulties, children with fewer opportunities) TIP: Since children are from different areas and countries, to overcome language barriers is recommended to choose activities which do not require a lot of verbal communication. We suggest the AnimalVocabulary game, Mountain game (silence game), card games and other. During these games, we will help children to work together and cooperate, to have more communication, learn different languages from their own and help them to feel more comfortable in the group.

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Animal vocabulary game 

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Aim: To help children to learn vocabulary of different languages easier, faster and in more playful way.

Number of participants: 20 participants divided in 2 groups.

Material: Vocabulary cards.

Activity: Each child chooses one card from the deck of cards. On each of the card is written a name of an animal. According to the illustrated animal on the card, children need to act like the animal and explain what is the animal to other members of the group without talking. Other children have to guess the animal in the language which they are currently learning, for example, Italian.

At the end of the game they all have to repeat the new words they have used during the game.

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Mountain game 

Aim: Children learn how to communicate with others without words by using their gestures and creativity.

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Number of participants: 20 participants.

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Material: Rope.

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Activity: On the floor there is a rope set as a long line and all players need to stand next to the rope. When all players are standing in one line, we will ask them different statments and they need to communicate without words in order to give answers to the questions. By the end of chosen time, all players need to stand in one line and be in order according to their date of birth, alphabetical order of the name of their home country, their own name etc.

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Trust! 

Aim: sensitize to disability, to learn cooperation and solidarity.

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Number of participants: 20 participants divided in 4 groups.

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Material: Scarf to blindfold, glass of water, chair etc.

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Activity: Some players are blindfolded and someother are not. Players able to see have to guide blindfolded by using their voice in order to achieve simple given tasks like: drink a glass of water, go around a chair etc. Roles will be swiched during the game. A debreaf will follow the game in order to share feelings, how was being blindfolded or helper, how was the process of decision making, how their inclusion to the society. TIP: Facilitate the discussion by raise reflection on people with disability, adapt the game if in the group there are people with disability.

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What can I do for my society? 

Aim: To raise awareness about problems in society and propose ideas in order to make it better.

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Number of participants: 20 participants divided in 4 groups.

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Material: Pens, pencils, paper.

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Activity: Every group will have different topics, for example, Environment, Poverty, migrants, Disability, young mothers, elderly, Young offenders etc.

Each group has 30 minutes to think and discuss about what are the problems in every day life and the difficulties caused by our society’s inefficiency for this group of people. For the following 20 minutes, the group needs to propose new simple rules or behaviours that society can apply to make easier the life of those people. Each group presents the results to other groups.

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The auction game 

Aim: To increase understanding among young people about differences between social groups its inequality, vulnerability of some of the groups and importance of Human Rights.

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Number of participants: 15 - 30 participants divided in 3 groups, aged from 18 -21.

Material: Pens, pencils, paper.

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Activity: Each group represents different social group based on their monthly incomes (group 1 - low income; group 2 - average income; group 3 - high income). Groups have to bid for the Human Rights.

Rules of the auction: Auctioneer presents 10 basic Human Rights offered for the bid. Each Human Right has its primary price (for instance, $20 per Right).

Each group is allowed to buy more then 4 rights but every group has a limited budget according to their income rates (for example, group 1 – $200, group 2 $600, group 3 - $1,000). The auction can start!

At the end of the bidding, teams will discuss what were their actions, priorities and results of the auction.

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Treasure hunt - quest «eldorado»

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Aim: To overcome language barriers, cultural stereotypes, sharing knowledge and experience between international participants.

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Number of participants: 16 - 24 participants divided in 4 international groups, age from 14 to 21.

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Material: Pens, pencils, paper.

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Requirement: In each group should be at least one member from different country then others.

Activity: Each group creates a map for the Treasure Hunt using all languages spoken in the group. The players in the team try together to understand the written message and follow the instruction.

Every team needs to decode, follow and complete all 4 Treasure maps in a fixed period of time. After all 4 tasks have been completed, the teams meet at the starting point.

Example: “Ola! Welcome! Иди in the tower nella foresta об одинадцятiй.”

(Meaning – Hello, welcome, go to the tower in the forest at eleven o'clock.

Languages used: Portuguese, English, Russian, Italian, Ukrainian).

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This compendium is a result of activities during the Training Course “MAP - More Action Please�. It reflects the view only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

The project was supported by the European Programme ErasmusPlus under the KA1

Implemented by Associazione ICARUS and

Association Realization