Challenge: Your team is to design three unique ways to wrap a birthday gift.
The Scene: Three of your friends are having birthdays. You are giving them the same gift but need to wrap them three different ways so you can tell them apart. Each of your friends has different personalities so your challenge is to design the wrapping to match the person receiving the gift.
Time: Your team will have 4 minutes to design and wrap the three gifts and 2 minutes to present the wrapped gifts and describe the personality of the person receiving the gift.
Materials: Scissors and colored markers (not to be used in the presentation) 3 milk cartons to be wrapped as the gifts, 1 brown paper grocery bag, 5 large rubber bands, 10 mailing labels, 1 yard of string, 3 sheets of colored 8×10 paper, 5 pieces of lasagna noodles, 1/2 yard fabric, 6 – 12 inch sheets of foil, 4 toilet paper tubes, 10 chenille stems (pipe cleaners) and 3 envelopes.
Scoring: (100 possible)
- up to 10 points each for the creativity of the three wrapped gift (30 points possible)
- up to 10 points each for the how well each gift match the personality of the person receiving the gift. (30 points possible)
- 0 to 20 point for the effectiveness of your presentation to the appraisers.
- 0 to 20 points for positive teamwork.
Team Debrief
The Gifts:
- How creatively wrapped were your gifts?
- What else could you have added? Subtracted? Done differently?
- What were the personalities of the people you were giving the gifts to?
- Did your gifts match these personalities?
- What could you have done differently?
Time:
- Did you complete the first part of the challenge within the 4 minutes? If no – why not? What could you do different?
- Did you complete the second part of the challenge within the 2 minutes? If no – why not? What could you do different?
- Did anyone ask now much time was left to work?
Teamwork:
- Did your team work well together?
- Was every team members ideas listened to?
- Did every team member participate in the challenge?
The Points:
- Did your team read over the scoring section of the challenge?
- Where were the most point available?
- Where could you have picked up more points?