Title: Button, Button
Type: Game
Target: Can you help me?
Materials: A button (or a small coin)
Procedure: In this game there is one searcher and one hider. The hider has a
button cupped in his hands. The rest of the students are all in a line with their
hands cupped in exactly the same way. The hider then slides his cupped hands
in between the others hands all the way down the line. Except, secretly, he drops
the button into someone else’s hands somewhere along the way. The student
who receives the button from the hider should not give any indication that he
has the button because we don’t want the searcher to know. Then when the hider
is finished everyone asks the searcher grasshopper, “Button, Button, who has
the button?” Then searcher should guess who he thinks has the button by asking
“Can you help me?” If the student he guesses doesn’t have the button they
should answer, “Sorry I can’t” but if he guesses correctly and you have the
button you say “Sure I can” and then give him the button. Repeat with new
searchers and hiders.
Comments: Perhaps could be altered to focus on another conversation theme.