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Good-bye Video

Suggested Group(s): Young, Middle & Teen

Purpose: To review the session and find a way to say goodbye

Task/need: Group building, group structure

Activity Setup Ideas:

  • Indicate that this will be the last meeting of the group (or the next-to-last meeting of the group) and that you'd like to take a few minutes to think back on the ten (or eight) meetings that you have shared as a group.
  • Ask the children to comment on what they liked or found valuable about their time at the Caring Place.

Materials:

  • iPad (the video camera is accessed through the Camera App)

Description: Ask everyone to say his/her name and last words to the camera. Film this in an area that is separate from the rest of the group. This video can include messages to the group, wisdom gained from the group, things they will miss, etc. Allow the group to watch all the videos together.

Activity Wrap Up Ideas:

  • Ask if anybody would like to expand on what he/she said and discuss as he/she wishes.
  • Ask how everyone feels after watching the videos.
  • With all the participants' permission, you can show the video to the whole group in the Forum at the end of the evening. This should be coordinated with the staff at the beginning of the evening, in case they need to make adjustments to the schedule.

ADDENDUM: This activity can be expanded to include further questions-and-answers. Depending on how much time is available for the activity, you can go anywhere from adding a couple of extra questions to the interview to creating a full-scale setup of the TV reporter and TV broadcast theme.

For the full-scale TV Reporter setup, this activity can be done during the middle weeks of a group rather than at the end. This can be used as a way for the group members to get to know one another better, although if that is the activity's main purpose, it is generally better done live, without the recording and playback components (see the "Caring Place Reporter" activity for more on this). If the group has a hard time talking with each other, however, doing this activity on the iPad might be a way to help break the ice. In this way, this can be a fallback Group Building activity when other attempts haven't worked.

Choose the parts of this process that work for your group:

Activity Setup Ideas:

  • Ask, "How many of you have ever seen the news on television?" Begin a discussion of the role and importance of reporters in the news. They investigate the story by asking questions, and then they put their findings together and report them back to the audience. Tell the group that they will all have a chance to be their own "Caring Place Reporters." As a Caring Place Reporter, their assignment will be to get to know something about fellow group members and report back to the group.

Materials:

  • List of interview questions for each child
  • iPad to record and play back
  • Microphone (optional)
  • A cardboard "TV screen" from which to report (optional)
  • Any other props to support the "reporter" theme (optional)

Description: Have the children pair up, then interview each other. Then have the children introduce their "new friend" to the group by first personally introducing them to the group, and then playing back a highlight of their interview.

Activity Wrap Up Ideas:

  • Have the children reflect on similarities found between group members.
  • Did you meet someone who has something in common with you?
  • Are there any unexpected similarities or differences found?

Suggestions: For younger children, you may want to have them "dress up" for the part of the reporter using hats or a thrift store jacket for a prop.

Caring Place Reporter Questions:

  • What is your name?
  • Who is in your family?
  • Are you the oldest? Youngest? In the Middle of your family?
  • What grade are you in?
  • What is your favorite food?
  • Do you have a pet? What kind? What is its name?
  • If you don't have a pet, would you like one? What kind?
  • What is your favorite thing to do?
  • If you could invite any three people to dinner, whom would you invite?
  • What makes you laugh?
  • What is your favorite kind of music or your favorite musical group?
  • What do you think you are good at doing?
  • What do you wish you were better at doing?
  • If you were trapped on an island for a year, what three things would you like to have with you?

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