Friendly Flyers
This exercise promotes communication and relationship building within teams. Participants work in pairs to create paper airplanes while sharing personal insights, culminating in a playful flying contest to guess whose plane is whose based on the attributes shared.
Comment l'animer
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Organize participants into pairs and provide them with paper and pens in a large space away from other pairs.
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Instruct each pair to build an aerodynamic paper airplane that can fly the farthest.
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Have each participant write down personal characteristics on the airplane's wings or inside.
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Conduct a paper airplane flying contest to determine which plane travels the farthest.
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After the contest, challenge the rest of the group to identify who each plane belongs to using the attributes written.
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Reveal the answers and celebrate the guesses.
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Continue with the planes in the order of distance flown.
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Conclude by highlighting that everyone has contributed and won in the activity.
Conseils
Encourage participants to be creative with their planes and personal attributes.
Facilitate the guessing game in a supportive manner to ensure everyone feels included.
Provide clear guidance on the importance of features that contribute to flight.
Variantes
You can introduce themed attributes for the planes based on specific group goals or assign different distances for additional competitiveness.
Contextes d'utilisation
Questions fréquemment posées
Quand utiliser Friendly Flyers ?â–ľ
Utilisez Friendly Flyers lorsque vous souhaitez: team building activity; icebreaker exercise; communication skills workshop; retrospective activity.
Combien de temps dure Friendly Flyers ?â–ľ
Friendly Flyers dure généralement 15–30 minutes.
Pour combien de participants Friendly Flyers convient-il ?â–ľ
Friendly Flyers fonctionne mieux pour des groupes de 6–30 participants.
De quels matériaux ai-je besoin pour Friendly Flyers ?▾
Friendly Flyers ne nécessite pas de matériaux particuliers — juste des participants et un espace.
Quel est le niveau de difficulté de Friendly Flyers ?▾
Friendly Flyers est classé débutant — facile à animer même sans expérience préalable.
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