Trainers’ Toolkit – Piece of paper

	Exercise nr 46: Piece of paper
Duration	10 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	Sensory stimulation and relaxing the body.
Group size	3-18 participants
Hashtags	#senses #relax #focus
Apps	Zoom, Microsoft teams, Google Hangouts or other,
Materials	Tell participants to prepare themselves a piece of A4 paper or a page from any newspaper.
Exercise agenda	Using a simple sheet of paper you can stimulate the senses of the participants and take their attention away from the online world. First, ask them to take the prepared sheet of paper in their hands and do gentle tactile exploration: move it around to check if it makes a sound, smell it, check its texture and temperature with their hands, put it near their eyes to see if it lets the light through. Ask everyone to make a paper ball, close and then open the hand around it. Does the paper open with the hand, or does it remain squeezed? Encourage each person to toss the ball with one hand and try to catch it with the other. Invite the participants to notice their sensory reactions to this exercise. After the exercise ask everyone for their impressions: with which sense do they experience the world most?
Possible modifications	You can ask the participants to turn off their cameras and microphones.At the end of the exercise, you may ask the participants to straighten the sheet of paper and tear it into smaller pieces, or use it for some other activity for writing, sketching, or drawing.
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-funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union