Marble Roll: A Cooperative Game for Teaching Mindfulness
published March 18, 2014
photo by Maggie Smith for freedigitalphotos.net
by Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village Community, from the book Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children
Materials: empty paper towel or toilet paper roll for each child, one marble for the group
The children stand in a line, close together.
Each child holds an empty paper towel or toilet paper roll.
The child at the head of the line puts the marble in her paper towel roll and tilts it slightly so that the marble rolls into the roll of the person next to her.
The object is to try to move the marble from the first person in the line to the last person without dropping the marble.
No catching with hands allowed!
If someone drops the marble, she must start over again at the beginning of the line.
From Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children (2011) by Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village Community. Reprinted with permission of Parallax Press, Berkeley, California.www.parallax.org
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