The Cooperative games between boys and girls encourage improvement and effort in a healthy way, without competing with each other. With them values are transmitted as the important thing is to learn from the mistakes and difficulties that are encountered along the way.
We propose a series of cooperative games that promote aid and cooperation among equals and not competitiveness. They are games in which fun cousin in teams in which the children organize themselves into teams.
Games across the river and musical chairs
In this game of crossing the river all the boys and girls form a single team. The idea is that everyone stands on a cardboard, and one of them is given another cardboard of the same size. The idea is that the children come from one side of the classroom to the other, or the park where the game is taking place, and do it by putting that cardboard next to the other. All the boys and girls will have to go to the cardboard and thus, once they are on the second cardboard, they take the first one again to pass it forward and so on until they manage to cross the river until they reach the end. None of the children can step on the water, and they have to help each other.
This chair game is fair the opposite of the knockout chair. In the first level there are the same number of participants as there are chairs, then a chair is removed and two of the children will have to share it, and so on, one chair is removed. In the end, all the boys and girls will have to share the same chair, or at least they all touch part of the chair. This is a very fun and cooperative game in which everyone participates until the end.
Write words with the body
This game is played outdoors and parents, siblings, nephews and all those who want to participate can also participate in it. The idea is choose a word, how long it takes depends on the number of people participating. The way to write it will be In uppercase stretching out on the floor and getting into different postures simulating the different letters.
If the group is very large, you can write up to full messages. It is a lot of fun to have each word or message photographed.
This type of cooperative games In addition to making us have a great time, they encourage help, empathy, organization, decision-making ... they also avoid the frustrations of defeat, so that children do not feel pressured to win, because in reality everyone wins .
I am the oldest or the oldest
Every boy and girl are arbitrarily placed on a bench or foot stool. Once they have done it we tell them that they have to sorted by date of birth. So that the child born in January goes and places himself first, but first the one who was the first has to help him, so that for a moment the two are together. Then it is lowered and placed where the other was. And so on until all and all the girls have helped each other, in this cooperative game in which all of them are ordered in the end.
If children are very small we can tell them to be ordered by color, or for some cards that we have distributed, or for the shirts they are wearing. The lightest colors first and then the darkest ones. They will also have to agree on this color scheme.
And if they are older children, for example from the age of 10, instead of walking up and down the sidewalks they can go from one to another until they are ordered. And all without stepping on the ground!
Here we have given you four examples of collaborative games of different ages, but surely if you talk with your friends they will tell you much more.
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