Fun with Character: Eggs Vs Tennies Ball

Flexibility
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Cover part of the floor with newspaper (or do this outside where you can hose down afterward). Have one of your students drop a raw egg onto the newspaper. Have your students observe its reaction when it hits an obstacle. Now have them drop a Tennis ball (but not in the egg mess!) and observe its reaction to the obstacle. Discuss with your students how these two reactions demonstrate how to react when something gets in your way that changes your plans. If you are like the egg, you crumble and stop when your plan hits a snag. If you are like the Tennis ball, you bounce and get right back in the game.

To process this activity, ask these or similar questions:

  • What did the egg do when it hit an obstacle?

  • What did the tennis ball do when it hit an obstacle?

  • What do people do when we (figuratively) hit an obstacle?

  • Are you more like the egg or the tennis ball when you (figuratively) hit an obstacle?

  • Will you remember the egg and tennis ball the next time something gets in the way of your plans?

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