Back Scratch Encouragements illustration
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Back Scratch Encouragements

Encourage each other through back scratches in response to a characteristic

Duration
11 - 15 · 16 - 30 min
Group Size
6 - 15 · 16 - 30 · 31 - 59
Ages
11 to 14 · 15 to 17 · 18+
Materials
None

How to play

Players find a comfortable area and spread out on the floor, laying on their stomaches, face down, eyes closed. The facilitator walks around and taps 6 or 7 people who stand up.

The facilitator then reads a characteristic such as "good listener" or "leader". The people who are standing up then walk around the room and scratch the backs of all the people they think match that characteristic. The facilitator goes through around 10 or 12 characteristics.

The facilitator then has the scratchers lay back down with their eyes closed and the facilitator chooses 6 or 7 different people to stand up and it repeats until everyone has had a chance to stand.