This booklet has a set of challenges all based on the television programme The Cube. You will need to collect together a certain amount of equipment. For those of you who have a family a lot of this can be found in your house. For others boots fairs and charity shops are a good source. There are several ways you can use these challenges. I first put together the challenges for form time in a secondary school I worked in. Each week I set up a different challenge for the pupils to attempt. At a Guide Camp I had a set of six or so challenges for them to attempt. It could also be used as a wide game if you have plenty of help, sending groups to different places for each challenge. I have given you the base for you to adapt to fit your needs! Siobhan Gascoigne
Contents Page 3 Equipment for Cube games 4 The Cube Challenges 5 The Cube Challenges 6 The Cube Challenges 7 The Cube Challenges 8 Ideas and adaptations 9 Box Grid 1 10 Box Grid 2 11 Jenga Tower 2
Masking tape Blind fold Selection of balls Equipment for Cube Waste paper bin or similar Grid of squares (sheet 1 and 2) Timer 15 Jenga bricks 10 red balls } 10 blue balls } ball pool balls are ideal 5 green balls } 5 yellow balls } 2 large trays (red and blue) (I used lids from boxes of photocopying paper with sheets of coloured paper in) 4 small trays (red, blue, yellow and green)( same as above but cut and halved) 10 small cube bricks ( from child s building bricks) 15 cuboid bricks ( again from child s building bricks) Plastic circle (from P.E. Equipment card circle will be fine) 2 garden canes Stacking cups 6 piece jigsaw 3
The Cube Challenges Walking in a straight line Mark down a line on floor about 30 cm wide and 3m long using two strips of masking tape. Challenge : Walk from one end to the other without stepping over the line whilst blindfolded. Simplify : Walk a shorter distance Rolling a ball into a square Mark out a square about 40cm square using masking tape. Mark out a starting line about 3m away. Challenge : Roll a ball so that it stops inside the square Simplify : Either make the square larger or place a box or board along the back edge of the square so that the ball can rebound back into square. Throwing a ball backwards into container Mark out a starting line and place a waste paper bin(or similar) about 3m away Challenge : Stand with your back to the bin and throw a ball over your head to land in the bin Simplify : Use a smaller ball or a bigger bin How many squares Print out a 10 by 10 square with so many squares coloured in Challenge : Look at sheet for 5 seconds and then turn it over. Then say how many squares are coloured in Simplify : Look at the sheet for longer, say 10 seconds 4
Which square is missing Print out a 10 by 10 square with so many squares coloured in Print out another square with one of the squares changed back to white Challenge : Look at the 1 st sheet for 5 seconds and then change it for the other sheet. Which coloured in square has changed to white? Simplify : Look at the sheet for longer, say 10 seconds Build a Jenga Tower Have a copy of the Jenga grid. You will need 15 Jenga bricks and a timer Challenge : Build the tower to the correct design using all 15 bricks in less than 20 seconds. Simplify : Build the tower in less than 30 seconds Switch the balls Have 10 red balls and 10 blue balls and two trays, one red and one blue if possible. Put the 10 red balls in the blue tray and the 10 blue balls in the red tray. Challenge : Switch the red balls into the red tray and the blue balls into the red tray within 10 seconds. Simplify : Give 15 seconds. Move a tower 10 bricks (cubes) are built in a tower. Challenge: Move the tower one brick at a time and rebuild about 30 cms away in 10 seconds or less. Simplify: Complete task in less than 12 seconds. 5
Sort the balls Have 20 balls, 5 of each in four colours and mix up altogether in a tray Challenge : Sort the four colours into 4 trays in 10 seconds Simplify : Give 12 seconds 15 brick tower 15 bricks (cuboid) are provided in front of player Challenge: To build a tower 15 bricks high without it toppling over. Simplify: build tower 12 high Roll the Ball into a circle Place a circle of paper or plastic about 30cm diameter at the end of a table or on the floor. Have a small ball. Challenge: Roll a ball from about 1 ½ metres distance to land in the circle Simplify: Have the circle against a wall or box so the ball can rebound into circle. Walk over 2 Canes Place 2 canes on chairs or similar at about knee height with a gap of about 2 metres between them. Challenge: Blindfold player and challenge to walk along about 5 metres stepping over the 2 canes on the way. Simplify: Only have one obstacle Move the Jenga bricks Place about 10 jenga bricks in a bowl on a table and a bowl on another table about 1.5m away. Challenge: Player stands between tables and moves one brick at a time from one bowl to another. Can they move them all in 6
15 seconds. Simplify: Change to 20 seconds. Build the cup tower Give player the set of stacking cups. Challenge: Stack the cups from biggest to smallest in a tower in 10 seconds Simplify: Give 12 seconds Make the jigsaw Have a simple 6 piece jigsaw. Challenge: Make the jigsaw in 10 seconds. Simplify: Give 12 seconds 7
Ideas and adaptations 1) Each person tries the challenge and gets points for succeeding. 2) Give each person 2 or 3 attempts with different points awarded depending on which attempt they succeed 3) Give person 10 lives and they work through the games until they run out of lives, gaining points for each game they succeed at. Allow them one simplify 4) Instead of having to do a challenge in so many seconds just time everyone and award points from fastest to slowest. 8
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Which box was black on the first sheet but is now white. 10
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