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Scenario Two – Television or play outside
Scene/situation – You have just finished your afternoon tea, it is a beautiful day and your brother
wants you to play ball but there is a movie on television. What should you do – watch television or
go outside and play? 4
Role play
• Ask the group to sit in a semi circle around the television
• Ask for 2 children to do the role play
• Child 1 sits in front of the television, pretending to watch it
• Child 2 is holding a ball and walks up to Child 1 and says “Mum says it is a lovely day
and we should go outside and play, come on.”
• Child 1 says “No, I am watching this movie”
What can we do to fix this?
• Give each child a sticker. Put a piece of paper with a picture of a television on it, next
to Child 1. Put a piece of paper with a picture of a ball on it, next to Child 2
• Ask the children what they would do. “Who would watch the movie? Move to sit with ‘Child 1’.
Put your sticker on the piece of paper with a television on it”
• “Who would go outside and play? Move to stand with ‘Child 2’. Put your sticker on the
piece of paper with a ball on it”
• Ask the children what other fun things they could do when they are moving around outside.
Ask the children to draw the fun things. Display these and the votes for the television and
playing ball
Possible further discussion points
• Explain that being active is important for all children as they grow and develop. Young
children need plenty of opportunities to move throughout the day and should not sit still
for a long time. Discuss this in a way that make sense to the children
• Explain that activities such as watching television and playing on the computer are called
‘screen time’
• Explain to children that after screen time there needs to be active time. Explore with
children the types of physical activities the children can participate in instead of or after
screen time
I Move We Move, The Guide Edition 1 August 2009
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