{"id":26873,"date":"2022-01-05T22:20:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=26873"},"modified":"2022-01-05T22:20:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T22:20:39","slug":"word-ball","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/resource\/word-ball","title":{"rendered":"Word Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone stood in a circle. One person starts by throwing an imaginary ball to anyone else in the circle while saying any word. The receiver catches the imaginary ball, repeats the word, and then says a new word while throwing a new imaginary ball to someone else. This continues around the whole circle in any order.<\/p>\n<h2>Top Tips<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>There should be no judgement on what words people say, people should be free to say whatever comes to them in the moment.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t worry if you go phases of swear words or other things you don&#8217;t usually get to say out loud. Keep going and you&#8217;ll find new levels.<\/li>\n<li>Keep it going even when feeling stuck, just make a sound and carry on.<\/li>\n<li>Keep a rhythm as you go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Variations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Words have to be associated with each other.<\/li>\n<li>Words have to be dissociated from each other.<\/li>\n<li>Following themes.<\/li>\n<li>Make a sound first and then see what word comes out.<\/li>\n<li>Words or sounds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Teaching Purpose<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Saying the first thing that comes to you.<\/li>\n<li>Listening.<\/li>\n<li>Warming up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Origin<\/h2>\n<p>We first learnt this from Alan Marriott at The Crunchy Frog Collective in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2725,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-26873","resource","type-resource","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Word Ball | Hoopla<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/resource\/word-ball\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Word Ball | Hoopla\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Everyone stood in a circle. 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