The Small Table
A round the children can win and the adults cannot, judged by the children, with no appeal.
Nothing at all
20 min
Anybody in the room
Up and about
None needed
What you need
Nothing. The people in the room and a phone between you.
Before the day
Pick something the children are genuinely better at — memory, noticing, anything requiring a good knee. Then let them judge it, which is the part they will remember.
Add this to your event
Fayla builds the whole weekend around it — a scoreboard everybody can see, a shopping list that writes itself out of the things you picked, and one link for the group chat.
Who it suits
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