Ensure everyone in the group can see each other. Someone must leave the group briefly, given them a specific time e.g. 3 minutes.
Choose somebody to be the leader. Explain to the group that they must copy the actions of
the leader but that they should not make it obvious who the leader is. They do not want the
guesser to be able to tell who is leading the action.
The leader starts an action that everyone copies. They then changes action. After this has been
done a few times for practice invite the person who is guessing who the leader is back into the
room.
The guesser watches the actions, can they guess who the leader is?
Get the group to play this several times with children taking turns at being the leader and the
guesser.
Discussion Questions
- How could the children tell who the leader was?
- What gave it away?
- Was it hard for the leader to change action without the guesser seeing?
- If someone new came into your group, would they be able to guess who the leaders were? How?
- What do leaders do?
