Game Night!

This last week was a different volunteer's turn to lead the activity. He had a great idea to have the kids make their own board games. Each was given a slice of poster board, paper, scissors, glue, and stickers. Some of the kids had more fun with this than others. The only boy attending really enjoyed making a space-themed game for us. It had an easy and a hard side, decorated to look like the Milky Way. The other two kids there were not very interested in the game. They were both younger and girls. Instead of making the game, they had fun seeing how many stickers they could attach to a volunteer's face.

I made an example board game for the activity. Even though the theme of my game went over the kids' heads, it was a good template for some of them to copy.

My own idea for a Kids' Group activity would be to make a poster board about the kids themselves. I did something similar when I was in grade school. We drew or printed out pictures of ourselves along with facts about our lives and interests on the board and then decorated it. It gave us a chance as kids to get to know our peers and begin exploring our identity, even though we didn't understand what that meant then. Doing this with the kids of Canyon Creek Women's Crisis Center would be great because it provides them with the chance to talk about themselves rather than their family situations.

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