Would You Rather?

I used to have a calendar of Would You Rather? questions and thought they would be great to use as a quick activity in the Patrol Activity Tubs. Rather than typing up my own questions, I used these cute cards which were designed* and provided as a free download (for personal use only) by: The Measured Mom. I laminated the cards (they print 6 to a page) and added rings, giving each Patrol a different set of questions.

Most of the questions are rather silly or amusing such as, would you rather go to school on a bus or on the back of a dinosaur? and would you rather swim in a pool of marshmallows or M&Ms? But there are some more thought provoking questions such as the example in the photo above.

* I did make a few edits to the cards so that the language would be more familiar to the Brownies. Mostly just changing American English to Australia English eg. camper was changed to caravan, candy to lollies etc. 

The instructions I gave the Brownies were that one girl would choose a question to ask her Patrol. Everybody had to be quiet while they thought about their answers and then in turn they would give their answer along with why they chose that response.

This worked well and the Brownies had great fun with the cards. Eventually the Patrols merged together and everyone ended up in a huge group with one girl asking questions and everybody shouting out their answers. Not a whole lot of reflection happening!

The girls spent longer on this activity than I had planned and when the groups merged my carefully separated sets of cards were shared amongst the unit - that's 48 unique cards! Clearly I will have to think of some new questions! Perhaps some with more of a Guiding focus. Any suggestions?