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Teambuilders | Chalkboard Sentences

CHALKBOARD SENTENCES: This exercise asks the participants, working in teams, to race against one another to formulate a sentence to which each team member has added a word.  The facilitator begins by explaining that the participants will be competing to see which team is the first to complete a group sentence.  Next, the participants are asked to divide into two teams.  If the group contains an uneven number, one participant may compete twice.  The group leader sets up blackboards or newsprint for each team.  The teams then are to line up 10 feet from their board.  After giving the first person in each team’s line a piece of chalk or marker, the leader explains the rules of the game.  The rules are as follows: Each team member is responsible for adding one word to the sentence.  The players take turns; after they go to the board and write one word, they run back to give the next player the marker, and then go to the end of the line.  (The sentence must contain the same number of words as there are members on the team.)  A player may not add a word between words that have already been written.  The group leader may wish to process the activity with a discussion on the most serious aspects of the exercise (i.e. the value of anticipatory thinking, the individual cooperating in a group task, etc.).