Sheep Shearing Relay
Thanks very much to Ruth Mott for posting this game
to the Guiding Mailing List!
Gear Required:
- a sheet of paper for each child with a sheep drawn
on it
- a pair of scissors for each patrol
- a felt tipped pen or crayon for each patrol
To Play: Patrols in line at one end of the Shearing Shed
(Hall). At the other end, opposite each patrol, is a pile of butcher's paper,
each piece having the outline of a sheep drawn on it, and a pair of scissors.
Halfway up the hall one-member of each Patrol stands holding a felt tipped pen.
At signal first girl in each Patrol runs to the paper, selects one sheet and
proceeds to cut out the sheep with the scissors. If the shearer goes off the
line the shearer calls out "Tar boy, quick!" and the girl with the
crayon runs up and makes a mark on the paper where the mistake has occurred,
then returns to the half way place on the floor and the shearer continues
cutting. When the sheep is cut out it is placed on the floor and the next girl
in line cuts out the next one. Game concludes when all girls have cut out a
sheep. However, the winning Patrol is not necessarily the fastest, as at the end
of the game all sheep are checked and any sheep with a mistake on it that has
NOT been tarred by the tar is taken out and the Patrol with the most CORRECTLY
cut out sheep wins. No points are deducted for mistakes which have been marked
by the tar.
Note: The outlines of the sheep could have been either
traced or drawn round a cardboard stencil by the girls at some time previously!
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