Don’t get burned, put out the fire!

Adriana Carolina Martínez Martínez
CCILA/Mexico

“Don't get burned and put out the fire!” is a variation of the traditional game “dodgeball” Participants will form 2 teams of 5 to 8 members per team. The two teams will represent firefighters (blue scarf) and fire (red scarf). The players of the “firefighters” team must extinguish the members of the “fire” team by throwing a ball, and must prevent the members of the “fire” team from destroying the “firefighters” team. At the end of the game the director will ask questions to the participants.

Materials

For the whole group:

  • A soft ball.
  • A whistle for the game director.
  • a coin.
  • a large garbage bag.

For each participant:

  • 2 Scarfs of two different colors (for example: 1 red and 1 blue)

  1. Form two teams, each team with 5-8 participants.
  2. Name team 1 the “fire fighters” and keep their badge in sight (a blue scarf), team 2 is the “fire” show their badge in sight (a red scarf).
  3. The objective of the “firefighters” team is to try to extinguish the fire, extinguishing the participants of the “fire” team try to prevent the fire from destroying the firefighters.
  4. The objective of the “fire” team is to kill the “firefighters” members, try to prevent the firefighters from extinguishing the fire.
  5. To do this, each team throws the ball to one of the participants of the opposing team, who must touch some part of his body.
  6. Move and run freely inside your field to avoid the ball touching any part of your body.
  7. Avoid being “turned off”, players can try to catch the ball. If they succeed, they save their life, in these cases the ball must not touch the ground.
  8. When a firefighter touches the ball to a fire, the referee has to remove the red badge and immediately turns off, but starts being a firefighter now wearing a blue badge. (the same in the case of a fire that touches a firefighter).
  9. Line up and stand facing each other, no less than two meters apart, each team taking its place on the field.
  10. Flip a coin to see which team starts the game.
  11. Start at the whistle signal
  12. End the game when one of the teams is left without participants.
  13. When the game is over, gather in a circle.
  14. Answer and think about the following questions:
    • Why is it important to monitor and extinguish an outdoor fire?
    • What actions do you suggest in your community to prevent a fire?
    • What is the attitude God wants from you to preserve the earth from fire?
  15. The earth belongs to God because He created it, and He gave mankind the responsibility to care for, preserve and develop the earth.
  16. Collect garbage, especially glass, which can cause forest fires.

  • Make sure that the place where they are going to play is free of objects that could be dangerous.
  • Divide the group into two teams of 5 to 8 people each.
  • Name the teams and give out badges, the “firefighters” team may wear a blue cap or scarf and the “fire” team may wear a red cap or scarf.
  • Flip a coin to find out which team starts throwing the ball.
  • Explain that the goal of the blue team “firefighters” is to put out the fire by touching the red team “fire” with the ball. y The goal of the red team “fire” is to kill the “firemen” in the same way by touching them with the ball.
  • Have the whistle handy and explain that when the whistle blows the game stops.
  • When you see that a participant touches someone with the ball, a change of handkerchiefs must be made.
  • The game ends when one of the teams is extinguished.
  • Finally, call the participants to sit in a circle and ask some questions.

Suggested questions:

  • Why is it important to monitor and extinguish an outdoor fire?
  • What actions do you suggest in your community to prevent a fire?
  • What is the attitude God wants from you to preserve the earth from fire?

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Martinez, Carolina, and Acanomas.com. 2021. “Don’t burn yourself, put out the fire!” Ecological Theme: Fire .

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