Theme Thursday - World of Friends Africa - Amazing Race

Girls’ Brigade Africa Amazing Race

Week 3:

• Get girls back into teams from previous week
• Explain rules of the game

1. No running
2. Work as a team
3. No put down comments
4. Detour – choose between 2 activities (do only 1)
5. Roadblock – only one person from team does activity, different person from the team each week.
6. Idea of the game is to make it to the end, not about winning prizes.

Burkina Faso

• Tongue Twister Telephone
• In a circle in teams
• Give girls tongue twisters; to be passed onto next girl like Chinese whispers. Last girl to receive has to say to leader, if they get it right they get a point.
• Super snakes sneak silently searching supper.
• Every elephant eats eggplant each evening.
• Warthogs walk with worms without whispering.
• Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.
• How much wood could a wood chuck; chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.
• These thousand tricky tongue twisters trip off the tongue.
• Team with most points gets their BENIN – DETOUR clue.

Benin

• All members in team travel to Benin in a line and walking as if on a tightrope.
• Detour – choose between word unscramble or canoe races.
• Word Unscrammble – girls to spell out words from facts off sheet using letters; there will be no spare letters once completed.
• Canoe races – girls to make 1 canoe each, add some tape to the bottom of the canoe. Each canoe to get across the water without sinking. Girls have to blow; no hands.
• Once complete give GUINEA – ROADBLOCK clue

Guinea

• Skip backwards to Guinea
• One person is to find the ‘bug’ inside the bowl of pudding
• They are only allowed to use their mouth to get it out.
• The bug has their next clue on it; DEVOTION clue

Devotions

• As a team jump holding hands to find the cross.
• Complete the activity using the instructions on the sheet
• Give AFRICA clue

Africa

• Girls are to keep together as a team and find 15 Africa facts, these are located all around the building.
• Once complete, team can go to the pitstop.

PIT STOP!

Theme Thursday - World of Friends Africa - Amazing Race

Girls’ Brigade Africa Amazing Race

Week 2:

• Get girls back into teams from previous week 
• Explain rules of the game 

1. No running 
2. Work as a team 
3. No put down comments 
4. Detour – choose between 2 activities (do only 1) 
5. Roadblock – only one person from team does activity, different person from the team each week. 
6. Idea of the game is to make it to the end, not about winning prizes. 

Africa

• ‘Water’ Relays 
• Line up in teams 
• First relay – bucket balance, girls balance bucket on head to chair and back again 
• Second relay – Camel relay race, girls on all fours with upside down bucket on their back, balance bucket on back to chair and back. 
• Team with most points gets their TANZANIA – DETOUR clue. 

Tanzania

• All members in team travel to Tanzania leap frog style 
• Detour – choose between cooking or singing 
• Cooking – girls to cook Tanzanian Baked Bananas, and eat 
• Singing – girls to learn words to Toto off by heart and sing 
• Once complete give NIGERIA clue 

Nigeria

• Travel as a human knot to Nigeria 
• One person is chosen to have their face painted, another person is the painter 
• The rest of the team is to tell the painter how to paint the persons face 
• Once finished, give DEVOTION clue 

Devotions

• Find the cross 
• Complete the activity using the instructions on the sheet 
• Give KENYA clue 

Kenya

• Girls to travel acting and sounding like monkeys to Kenya 
• Girls to make one bracelet each using beads. 
• Once complete, team can go to the pitstop. 

PIT STOP!

Theme Thursday - World of Friends Africa - Amazing Race

Girls Brigade Africa Amazing Race

Week 1:

• Line up oldest to youngest and number off to form teams of 4/5 girls.
• 5 minutes to choose team name and write it down.
• Explain rules of the game / get girls to suggest rules

1. No running
2. Work as a team
3. No put down comments
4. Detour – choose between 2 activities (do only 1)
5. Roadblock – only one person from team does activity, different person from the team each week.
6. Idea of the game is to make it to the end, not about winning prizes.

Africa

• Animal Alphabet game
• Give each team plenty of letters of the alphabet.
• Leader calls out the name of an animal and each team must spell the animals name and put their hands up when completed.
• Soccer relay – with balloons
• Team with most points gets their KENYA – DETOUR clue.

Kenya

• All members in team to crawl to Kenya
• Detour – choose between words or wisdom
• Words – find all animals in word search (must work as a team)
• Wisdom – work out the animals in the crossword (must work as a team)
• Put team name on sheets when finished, give SOUTH AFRICA – ROAD BLOCK clue

South Africa

• Travel blind holding hands, one person in team leading the way to the kitchen.
• Team to make maize meal and a cup of tea.
• One person to eat maize meal and drink tea.
• Once finished, give BOTSWANA clue

Botswana

• Hope holding hands to Botswana
• Using 1 sheet of sand paper each and crayons, each team member to make a rock cave painting, stick on the walls.
• Give CREATION DEVOTION clue

Creation

• Find the cross
• Look up and read together as a team Genesis chapter 1:1 – chapter 2:3
• Use template to create origami

PIT STOP!

Theme Thursday - World of Friends Africa

Yes! World of Friends is back for another year!  This year we're doing Africa and its for all ages.  We'll be starting by putting together another Amazing Race.  We'll be having our first week racing next week - so check back next Thursday for resources :)

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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