Being a leader can be a challenging experience, when in a family, in a group, or amongst strangers. leaders also need followers. Take turns as a family leading each other around the rooms where you live in various ways. Here are some examples:-
Copy Cats Freeze
Now it’s time to ‘up the ante’ slightly. Here’s the harder version.
This game is basically the same as the version above, but this time there is a ‘trick move’. The ‘trick move’ could be ‘hop on one leg’, for example.
Start the game again, with all the copy cats following the person who is ‘it’.
However, whenever that person starts hopping on one leg they have to freeze!
If you start copying, you are out. You could possibly sit down for a moment, but probably not for too long.
Another variation of this game is that when the person that is ‘it’ does the ‘trick move’, the others have to do something different. So, it might be when ‘it’ starts jumping, everyone has to do anything apart from jumping (hopping, skipping etc).
Pied Piper Game
This is probably the simplest ‘follow the leader’ game and is great for even very young children.
One child (or maybe the adult to start with) is at the front. The rest are going to follow behind the first, all trying to keep a reasonable gap between each other.
The person at the front can move however they like, and the others are going to follow.
Some good moves are:
i) Long or short footsteps
ii) Travelling low, or reaching up high
iii) Going fast/slow
iv) Moving like animals
You can move in a straight line, or you can loop around all over the place.
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