To get everyone working in the same space and doing a similar task today the challenge was set to make a clay monster on the wall. There was even a prize to encourage those creative juices, for the best monster voted for by the group. Most got stuck in straight away, one or two were worried about getting dirty playing with the clay but with a little time started smearing clay on the wall too. Once everyone had finished and cups of hot chocolate had been drained each person told the group about their monster and what it could do. We did not always show good listening skills and as a group this is something we do need to work on, as quite often we have to sit in the log circle waiting for everyone to simmer down before we can start the first activity. We talked about respect and how we should act if someone else is talking and we will be working on this in the next couple of weeks.
One of the boys monsters fell off of the wall and he was all for packing it in as he felt he did not stand a chance of winning anyway. He was encouraged to have another go and to give him time to finish we agreed that we would come to him last. It turn out that he won with the most votes for his monster and he later showed amazing sportsmanship by sharing is prize with two older boys who got rather upset at not winning.
It has been interesting to observe how the different members deal with competition from the boys who were in tears because they did not win to the boy who doesn’t like competitions because he never wins because he thinks he’s rubbish at everything. I think we need to work on this and find away to get the group thinking positively about competition that winning is nice but not everything and that taking part can be fun and that it is important to have a positive attitude and aim for a personal best. So much from one small Milky Way bar to work on.
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