Trainers’ Toolkit – Objects around you

	Exercise nr 21: Objects around you
Duration	10-15 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	Encouraging participants to move a bit and  to express themselves, boosting energy level in the group
Group size	5-15 participants
Hashtags	#energizer #relax #movement
Materials and tools necessary for the activities	No additional materials are needed.
Exercise agenda	This exercise is proper when you need to change group energy during a training session. Especially when you need to take a break and get away from the main topic of the workshop for a while. The aim of the exercise is also to invite participants to move away from chairs and monitors. The task is to find certain objects around you as quickly as possible and bring them in front of the computer camera. Ask participants to act quickly and spontaneously. Count to three and ask the participants: “Let’s focus, ready, steady, go and find something green!” Encourage participants to move away from the monitors in order to find their subjects. Give them 5? seconds for this task.  Ask participants to show their objects to the camera, so that everybody could see. You can ask a few questions about objects people have collected: – Was it easy to find it?  – If someone brings a plant, you can ask if they have many plants at home. Then offer a few more challenges. For example: – Bring and show others the thickest book you can see in your place.  – Bring and show the strangest thing you see around you. – Bring and show others something soft. – Bring and show others something round. – Make yourself a headdress from whatever you have on hand. Each one can be commented on briefly. You can add some of your own suggestions – experiment! Finish the exercise after a few minutes. Take advantage of the moment when everyone is doing something interesting and take a picture of the group using the print screen function.
Possible modifications	In this simple exercise you can come up with your own ideas for challenges for participants. Remember that nothing brings people closer like having fun and laughing together. Use spontaneous fun to talk a bit with the participants, make sure the relations within the group are good. You can use as well a great online tool: “Wheel of Fortune: that generates random tasks that you prepare in advance:  Using “Wheel of Fortune” that generates random tasks that you prepare in advance https://wheeldecide.com.
Credits	Compiled by Fundacja Culture Shock for TRENDSS – Transnational Roadmap for Educators in Digital Soft Skills (https://trendss.eu/)Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Co-founded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union