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Activity: Mapper’s Mime

Mapper’s Mime is a fun, competitive take on the original Charades in which children need to collect information from markers and act it out for their team.

Summary

  1. Team’s will have to work together to act out and solve the Charade on each marker.
  2. Children can go in pairs to different blank markers.
  3. The game continues until all 10 blank markers have been solved.

    Key Facts

  • OAA
  • Key Stage 1
  • Key Stage 2
  • Key Stage 3
  • Communication and Collaboration
  • Competitive Team Game
  • Orienteering
  • Interactive Control Markers Required
  • Interactive Map Required
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