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Less Like a Classroom, More like an Activity Center
Many of your Stockade programs are given a school classroom for your meetings. How can you make it Un-school-like? How can you change the settings, allowing more of the action boys love? Make the room less like a classroom, and more like an activity center for them. Try giving them opportunity to move around, doing different parts of the meeting in different areas. You can do some things at the tables, like a craft project. But are chairs really necessary? Achievement time might take some leaders and boys out in the hallway. The door is still open, but this provides space for more individual attention. Just an idea, especially if space is limited and more boys start attending. Story Circle can have boys and men sitting on the floor of your room. They can sit in a circle, where the leader can have eye contact with each boy as he talks with them.
And think of ways you can take them somewhere else for a part of the meeting, even unexpectedly. I remember times when I was a boy, when our Sunday School teacher (a man) took our small class outside and taught his lesson as we sat on the steps going down to the cemetery, under the shade of maple trees. It’s a memory I have to this day. Why? Because it was different, and I don’t remember being in the classroom at all, even though that was probably 90% of the weeks in the year.
These are ideas you might try, and what works for you might create character for your Stockade meetings that will keep the boys wanting to come back even more.
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