Banana Surgery: Leader Guidelines
Objective: Help the youth understand that things taken apart (relationships, reputations, etc.) aren't as easily put back together.
Group Ages:
13 – 25 years
Activity Level:
Medium
Competition Level:
High
Location:
Indoors/Outdoors
Equipment Needed:
- 1 Cutting Board
- Plastic apron (if possible)
- 1 plastic picnic knife
- 1 set of disposable gloves
- A bunch of bananas
- A banana bandaging kit! (a plastic packet containing celotape, toothpicks, rubber bands, pins, gem clips, etc).
Pre-Activity Set-Up:
Prepare the banana bandaging kits before hand but do not give them to the groups. Arrange chopping boards and work space for each group to conduct their 'banana surgery.'
Directions:
- Divide the youth into groups.
- Have a team peel and cut up a banana into 8 equal parts. (Don't tell them what comes next until they're done.)
- Then tell them they must put the banana back together using pins, needles, tape, or whatever. The team with the best, reconstructed banana wins. Give each group the banana bandaging kits at this point.
- Assign 20 minutes for the entire activity.
- If you do this with a big group, use a video feed to a big screen and time the 'surgery' so it doesn't drag.
The reconstruction bit of the exercise gets pretty messy. Moral of the activity: Relationships are easy to break up but can be pretty messy to patch up. Another moral could be that after a challenging or horrible experience, even when we are patched up, things are never really the same.
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