{"id":34179,"date":"2014-12-21T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/resources_youth_and_children_the_chopsticks_game\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:31:07","slug":"resources_youth_and_children_the_chopsticks_game","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/resource\/resources_youth_and_children_the_chopsticks_game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chopsticks Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can you use chopsticks?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children in China (and Japan and Korea and many other places) use them all the time. Here&#8217;s a chopstick game from Global Ministries missionaries, the Searles, who live in China. This is a very exciting game and will teach you to use those chopsticks fast!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Set-up<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>1. Make two teams. (Don&#8217;t make the teams too big, 4-5 people is best. If you have extra people, have a cheering section!)<\/p>\n<p>2. Line up each team on one side of a table, team members standing or sitting next to each other.<\/p>\n<p>3. Give each player a bowl and a set of chopsticks.<\/p>\n<p>4. Put a bowl full of jellybeans, raisins or small marshmallows to the left of the first player on each team.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Play<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>When the referee says &#8220;Go!&#8221; the player at the start (left) of the line starts taking jellybeans from the bowl to her\/his left and put them in the bowl in front of her\/him. The next player will take jellybeans from the bowl on her\/his left and put them into his\/her own bowl, and so on until the bowl in front of the last person is full of jellybeans.<\/p>\n<p><em>Liz and Doug Searles live in China with their children in China and teach English.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","topic":[20297,20241,20446,20181],"region":[20049],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Chopsticks Game - Global Ministries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/resource\/resources_youth_and_children_the_chopsticks_game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Chopsticks Game - Global Ministries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Can you use chopsticks? 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