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Human Knot

Goal, Objective or Purpose of Activity: Team building, Thinking, Leadership, Social Fun

Appropriate Age Level: 9 and up

Minimum/Maximum Number of Participants: 8 to 30+

Set-up Time Required: 0-15 minutes

Activity Time Required: 0 – 15 minutes

Space Requirements: Normal Meeting Area, beach or grass field works best

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Procedure for Teaching:

1. Everyone needs to be in the same general area.
2. Each person needs to hold one hand of two different people.
3. This may require some of the participants to reach across the group.
4. Once everyone has tow hands, you will have ONE human knot.
5. You must unchain the knot to form a circle.
6. If you discover that you have 2 knots in the group, all the more fun.

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