Overall we had great success with our icebreaker and our game. That said, we are wondering if the jellyfish bottle would be an activity that the kids would have to do with their parents prior to the game (maybe a day before the KCC meetup, at home) as we don't think the kids under 8 will be able to properly make it (especially without a mess -food colouring!). We're thinking that colouring in the acrylic sea life and then hanging them up into the gazebo would be an icebreaker enough, as it will still have the same effect:
1. Gives the narrator enough time to spark a discussion about plastic pollution in NZ oceans and rivers
2. The kids get attached to their creations. Which is logically and more sensible, because we want them to care about the sealife, hence getting attached to a -plastic- Jellyfish is questionable. It is still important to the game though, as it gives away the point that plastic does not belong in the ocean, and needs to prevented/cleaned up.
Tanya gave us feedback, when we packed down, as it is momentarily too complicated to put it together and pull it apart. We need to figure out a way to manufacture it so that it is ready to go and simple to be put back together. She was referring hereby with the decorations in the gazebo.
What if we could make a web out of string or fabric that we can just tie into the frame. The streamers would be streams of green, blue and light blue fabric so that they can't be pulled off easily (One problem we noticed, the kids LOVED pulling them down).
It just needs to work as a pack, as at the moment it seems like we have way too many bits and pieces to get it working.
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