Toolbox Tuesday - World of Friends Europe - Amazing Race Week 3

Girls’ Brigade Europe Amazing Race

Week 3:

• Line up teams as from week previous
• Remind them of rules etc

Greece

• Olympics
• Round 1 – Hockey, each team given magazine stick and a balloon – up to chair and back
• Round 2 – Javelin Throw – each team given a straw, must throw and where it lands to stand and keep throwing until it reaches chair, then run back
• Round 3 – Reverse hurdles, each member of the team crawling, and to go under 2 chairs and then back again
• Round 4 – Gymnastics, each member to do forward rolls to chair and then star jumps back to team
• Team with most points goes on first then each other team 30 seconds later than last, give DEVOTIONS CLUE

Devotions

• Choose an animal, and acting and making sounds of that animal, find the cross.
• Follow instructions on work sheet
• Check answers to get SPAIN DETOUR clue

Spain

• As a tight group hug walk to Spain
• Detour
• Choose between craft fish or word fish
• Craft fish – Cut out template, decorate and add verse Matthew 4:19, “Come follow me”, Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men” – 1 per person
• Word fish – complete Spanish fruits wordfind – 1 per team
• Names on activities, get ENGLAND ROADBLOCK clue

England

• Roll to England
• Roadblock – one member of the team to complete
• One member of the team to Sing “I’m a little Tea Pot”, with actions, once complete direct them to table where craft set up.
• England – craft
• Each person to make handbag for tea party

PITSTOP

All girls to clean up and then be seated for English Tea Party.

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Toolbox Tuesday - World of Friends Europe - Amazing Race Week 2

Girls’ Brigade Europe Amazing Race

Week 2:

• Line up teams as from week previous
• Remind them of rules etc

France

• Story told to all teams of the invention of Braille
• All teams given a list of items to find in Braille (with alphabet)
• Teams to decipher list and find all items, bring to leader to confirm, if correct give IRELAND DETOUR CLUE

Ireland

• All members of team to skip backwards to Ireland
• Detour – choose between green or scene
• Green – craft a leprechaun each member
• Scene – cut potatoes to form a picture
• Team names on items when finished, give team DEVOTIONS CLUE

Devotions

• Find the cross, travel there in extreme slow motion (points awarded)
• Answer questions, name team and strengths, team name and motto
• Check answers with leader, give CRAFT CLUE

Craft

• Make your way to leader working as a team with only 2 feet on the ground per team to get next clue
• Make cross pins and attach to card as shown in sample with message
• Girls to write made by ......... with their name on the back, give SCOTLAND ROADBLOCK CLUE 

Scotland

• Travel singing the national anthem of New Zealand (English) to Scotland
• Roadblock – team to give one person in the team a face pack made from cold porridge

PIT STOP!!

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Toolbox Tuesday - World of Friends Europe - Amazing Race Week 1

Girls’ Brigade Europe Amazing Race

Week 1:

• Line up oldest to youngest and number off to form teams of 3/4.
• 5 minutes to choose team name and write it down
• Explain rules of the game / get girls to suggest rules 
• No running 
• Work as a team 
• No put down comments 
• Detour – choose between 2 activities (do only 1) 
• Roadblock – only one person from team does activity, different person from the team each week. 
• Idea of the game to make it to the end, not about winning prizes 

Switzerland

• Get all teams to sit down in a row team members in a line. Get a chair put opposite end of room. 
• Read story of William Tell, give instructions to put apple on head, walk to the chair and around once then back to team, repeat – after all 3, team to put chair away before getting EUROPEAN UNION – DETOUR clue.European Union 
• All members in team to crawl to EU 
• Detour – choose between words or wisdom 
• Words – find all words in word search (must work as a team) 
• Wisdom – mark and colour all countries listed (must work as a team), to write in pencil first and check with leader (tell which are correct), if incorrect they must sit down again as a team to work out (do not stand by leader and point to everything!) 
• Put team name on sheets when finished, give ITALY – ROAD BLOCK clue 

Italy

• Travel blind holding hands, one person in team leading the way to the kitchen 
• One person from team to eat spaghetti from bowl with hands behind back.
• Once finished,WALES clue under bowl.

Wales

• Hop holding hands to Cmyru (Wales in Welsh)
• Using template and cutting 2 hand prints from each team member, make a Welsh Dragon (does not have to be red)
• Stick on the wall, give DEVOTION clue

Race of Life

• Find the cross
• Look up bible verse

PIT STOP!!

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