Hide and Seek/ Digging Ground and plantation

Learning Outcomes

1. Students will be able understand the importance of sustainability of resources and the necessity to protect them for the upcoming generations.
2. Reinforce Object Permanence and minimize Separation Anxiety.
3. Improve Physical Development and Coordination.
4. Develop Cognitively.
5. Learn Emotional Self-control and Impulse Control.
6. Tone and Strengthen Gross Motor Muscles

Description Of Activity

How to play 

Students will be taken to the Vidyalaya garden and encouraged to play hide and seek. They will be asked to use the trees, flower bushes and the rocks in order to hide themselves. They will be able to identify these things as natural resources. Then the teacher would explain that if the trees and the bushes are harmed in any way, the juniors wont find any place for hiding when they come to learn this lesson. Therefore, thinking about the juniors, they should treat the natural resources with utmost care and delicacy while playing the game.

If the seeker sees the person hiding doing a wave, however, then they are found and come and join the seeking team. The game ends when everyone is found.

Hide And Seek Jail 

1. One child is it. They are going to be doing the counting. They count next to a designated spot that will also be the jail. It could be a tree or next to a fence, for example. If you are indoors, it could be a particular room in the house.
2. Everyone else goes away to hide.
3. Whenever the seeker finds someone, they have to go and stand in the jail.
4. The aim for the seeker is to get everyone into the jail. Then they have won.
5. However, children that are hiding can free people in the jail by sneaking over to the jail and tagging anyone in there. They can then all run away and hide again.
6. As long as the seeker doesn't see this, then everyone is back in the game.
7. There are all sorts of benefits to risky play such as this that you can read about in this article that I wrote.

 Hide The Teddy

1. One way is to have two teams. One team will be seeking, and they close their eyes. The other team will be doing the hiding.
2. Every member of the hiding team needs to have one toy or teddy to try to hide each.
3. They go off and hide them and then come back to where the seekers have their eyes closed and say, Ready!
4. The seekers go off and try to find the teddies (or toys).
5. When they have found them all, simply swap roles, and the hiders become the seekers and vice versa.
6. Another way of doing the game, is that one child does the hiding of the teddy, and everyone else is seeking. The winner is the person that finds the teddy first.
7. You could also try this game with some kind of class puppet.

Code Hide And Seek 

1. This is a slightly trickier game, that is probably for children from the ages of about 6 upwards.
2. Have some kind of code. This could be a laminated word that has been cut into its letters. For example, the word gold could be split into four letters g, o, l, and d.
3. At least one child is going to be it and count, although you could definitely have several. At least one child (but again it could be a few children) will hide the code letters.
4. The seekers go off and find the code. When they find it, they try to put it together.
5. You could potentially have code that is one of the following:

Numerals from a long number
Words that make a sentence
Letters from a name
Letters from a secret word

Object Hunt

1. This is a similar idea to find the teddy.
2. There are two teams again one the seekers and the others are hiding the objects.
3. Its good to have a range of interesting objects for this. It could be some pebbles with pictures on. Or maybe some pretend treasure.
4. Or it could be toy superheroes, or vehicles, or something else like that which the children are interested in. Tapping into interests is one of the best ways of motivating young children.
5. Anyway, one half of the children go off to hide them, and then the others go to try and find them.
6. Finding an object is usually harder than finding a person, so games like this can take quite a bit longer. Objects dint move, and so they are harder to spot. They are also a lot smaller, and can hide in a wider range of places.
7. Use a game like hotter, colder if they are having lots of problems in finding the objects.
8. Then, when everything is found, swap roles, and the seekers become the finders.

Using Maps To Find Treasure

1. This is a game that mixes up the fun of hide and seek, with a bit of early writing and map making.
2. Its similar to the hiding objects game above, only it is a longer process.
3. Split into two teams, the seekers and hiders.
4. The seekers close their eyes, and (just to warn you) they will probably have them closed for quite a while.
5. The hiders go hide objects in different places, then they come back and draw a big map as a team of where they've hidden the things.
6. For example, if you hide a digger truck next to a tree, try to draw the tree with a truck next to it! Its probably quicker if all the hiders work together to draw the map at the same time.
7. Then the seekers open their eyes, and try to use the map to find the objects.
8. If they are having problems, the hiders can give them clues, or maybe just explain what the pictures are meant to represent!
9. This game is a fantastic way of bringing early writing to life!

Variations

Plantation programmes can be planned while teaching and learning this lesson. This will involve digging of the ground and weeding which will impart some physical fitness. At the same time, they will learn that theoretical knowledge is not sufficient. Students as future citizens have to be proactive in creating and protecting resources either individually or as a team.

Secret Wave -This is a fun variation of classic ‘hide and seek’.

1. One child is the ‘seeker’, closes their eyes and counts.
2. Everyone else is hiding.
3. The seeker goes off to look for the others, and when they find anyone, that person will join them on the seeking team.
4. However, here’s the twist. If the new ‘seeker’ is able to spot another child that is hiding before the main seeker sees them, then the two children (seeker and hider) can do a secret wave to each other.
5. As long as the original seeker does not see this, the child that was hiding to begin with can now run away and hide once again.
6. If the ‘seeker’ sees the person hiding doing a wave, however, then they are found and come and join the seeking team. The game ends when everyone is found.

 

Coaching Tips

The students should be able to understand that these activities are not mere activities but a way to raise awareness towards the responsibility of humans in protecting the resources for future generations.

Equipment/Material Required

Gardening tools, crone, hoe, gloves, water pipes, blind fold