VARIATIONS ON KIM'S GAME
BASIC KIM'S GAME
Equipment:
o a tray with 20 small articles (may be related by theme!)
o Pencil and Paper for each person
o A watch or timer.
Category: Indoor, quiet
Number who may play: any number
Age: Guides and up.
Uncover the tray and hold each article up, while naming it so that
they whole group sees each thing and hears its name separately. Cover
the tray after 2 minutes and allow the group 5 minutes to write the
names of as many of the 20 objects as they can remember. Scoring:
One point for each correct article in their list.
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FLYING SAUCER KIM'S GAME
Have a bag instead of a tray, with your 20 objects in it. You need
two Guiders for this. One person takes the article out of the bag
and tosses it to the other Guider, who holds it up, names it and puts
it in their bag (or throws it back to the bag holder, which ever works
for you). After all the objects have done their flying saucer act
the girls have 5 minutes to record as many of them as they can. Scoring
as above.
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MIME KIM'S GAME
This is a camping game. In the bag have a list, which the girls can
not see of 20 camping related articles. Reach into the bag, and one
at a time mime the action of taking out and using 20 articles that
you would have a camp, i.e. a flashlight, matches, etc. After you
have done all 20 actions the children see how many they can remember.
Scoring as above.
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HEARING KIM'S GAME
This version requires some preparation and a tape player. Make a cassette
tape of 10 sounds that you would hear. This could be 10 nature sounds,
or 10 city sounds, or a mixture of the two. Unlike the above versions,
the girls record what they think they are hearing as they hear them.
So, you play your first sound, and the girls are given 10 seconds
to write down what they think it is, then you play the second sound,
etc. Scoring as above.
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SMELLING KIM'S GAME
10 baggies with wet sponges that have been soaked in vinegar, maple
syrup, coffee, orange pop, water, ketchup, mustard, etc., are lined
up and numbered. The girls smell the contents of each bag and immediately
mark down their conclusion. The bags need to be covered so that the
girls do not get hints by colours, or textures. This one can also
be a tasting game, each girl tastes with a drop of the liquid put
on her tongue with a tooth pick. For reasons of health, a tooth pick
is only used once and never dipped into a bag a second time. Salted
water and sugar water can also be used for the tasting version. Scoring
is the same as above.
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FEELING KIM'S GAME
This is done much the same way, with textures being the thing guessed.
Cooked spaghetti, a bag of elastics, macaroni noodles, peeled sectioned
oranges, sand, raw diced carrots, etc. In between each feeling there
may need to be a place to rinse your hands. Or you could use latex
gloves for each person. Immediately after feeling something they could
record their guess, someone could be taking dictation for this! Scoring
as above.
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ITALIAN KIM'S GAME (can be adapted for any country)
Give each small group a copy of the map of Italy. Play Kim's game
using this map. After letting the groups study the maps for a given
length of time, have them turn the map over and then ask questions
such as:- Which body of water lies to the south of Italy? What city
is almost in the centre of Italy? What mountains lie in the north
of Italy? What is the name of island which looks like it is a soccer
ball being kicked by Italy? What colour is the country to the east
of Italy on this map? etc. To check, have the groups look at the map
again and then repeat the questions so they can see if they had the
correct answers. The give each girl a piece of paper and a pencil
and challenge her to draw the outline of Italy. While all of them
probably know it is shaped like a boot, let them see how close they
can come to the actual outline.
