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Description

An activity for new sixers and seconders (or existing) to help them effectively communicate with and lead their Sixes. Each Six has to recreate a simple line drawing which only the Sixer and Seconder can see.

Resources

Paper, pencils, a ruler, rubber and colouring pencils. A simple line drawing i.e. a house

Instructions

The pack are split up into their Sixes and go to their area / corner with the paper, pencils, ruler, rubber and colouring pencils, with the Sixers and Seconders staying in the middle of the room. When everyone is ready the following instructions are given to the pack.
1. Each Six is to draw as accurately as possible a copy of the drawing of a house (or whatever your drawing is)
2 Only the Sixers and Seconders can speak
3. The Sixers and Seconders cannot go closer than 1 metre to their Six to give them their instructions.
4. Each member of the Six must participate
5. They only have 15 minutes to complete the task

The Sixers go to a leader, either in the middle of the room or in a separate area, ideally where the rest of the pack cannot hear what is being said and are given a specific instruction as to what their Six is to draw, for example, the youngest member of the Six is to draw the roof, or the tallest member of the six is to draw the windows, a boy is to colour in the door, or a girl is to draw the door. The Sixer then needs to pass this instruction on to their Seconder who in turn passes the instruction on to their Six and makes sure it is carried out correctly. The Sixer and Seconder can spend some time discussing how they are going to make sure that the correct person in their Six carries out each part of the task. The Sixer and Seconder then swap over so that this time the Seconder gets the instruction from the leader, and passes it on to the Sixer who then organises the Six to make sure it is carried out correctly. This then continues until the drawing is completed or time runs out.

Once completed (or if the time allocated is up) their drawings are compared to the original to see how closely they match and is followed by a brief 5 minute discussion on how it went. For example, how did the Sixer and Seconder feel about passing on instructions, do they think their Six listened to them? Did their Six think that they gave clear instructions etc..

It may be a good idea for the leader giving the instructions to keep a record of what they've said so each six gets the same instructions, and if possible an adult or YL stays with each Six to make sure they stay quiet etc. and to help the Sixer / Seconder organise each part of the task.

Tags

• communication
• leadership
• Listening skills
• Seconder
• Sixer
• team building

Badge Links

• Skills - Problem solving
• Team Leader - Lead
• Team Leader - Teach
• Teamwork - Examples
• Teamwork - Team game
• Teamwork - Team-building