Fun Game Activity for Stress ManagementPlaying With Stress Balls
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Type |
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Stress Management |
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Nature |
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Both – Indoor & Outdoor |
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Participants |
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25 to 50 |
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Duration |
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Maximum 20 Minutes |
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Material Needed |
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Number of balls according to the participants' number |
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Goal |
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Stress management through a fun activity |
Stress
Balls are great for relieving stress, but here's a twist of the typical "squeeze to release stress" that's
normally used with these fun toys.
How it Works
This exercise can be used for any group, and the benefits are numerous. The best way to use this exercise is by processing it afterward by discussing the following
- Mindfulness involves being in the present rather than dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. By actively, consciously paying attention to the present, you live life to the fullest.
- While doing the exercise, group members were unlikely to be thinking about anything else.
- While doing the exercise, group members were having fun and losing themselves in the moment.
- The ability to multitask is a myth. People believe that they can "juggle" multiple tasks successfully, but no one can do several things at once as well as they can do one thing at a time.
- Discuss how easy the exercise was with one stress ball versus with several.
- Discuss how important it is to focus on responsibilities and use time management to get each one done individually and thoroughly.
Instructions
- Have everyone stand in a circle.
- One person starts out with one ball and tosses it to someone else, remembering who they tossed it to.
- The next person tosses it to someone who has not had the ball yet, remembering who they tossed it to.
- The third person tosses it to someone who has not had the ball yet, remembering who they tossed it to.
- This continues until everyone has had the ball, and it returns to the first person who started.
- The pattern is repeated (each person always tossing it to the same person) until it is remembered easily.
- Each person only needs to remember to who they tossed the stress ball and to who they received it.
- Once the group remembers the pattern easily, they introduce more balls into the same pattern, with the first person tossing one stress ball, then another, then another, to the same person, who then passes on each ball to the next person in the pattern.
- If balls fall or roll, pick them up and continue the pattern until everyone is laughing too hard to play effectively, or until the decided minutes are up.
Follow Up Questions:
- Ask the participants “How does this technique work”?
- Describe a few other ways for “Stress Management” i.e. Social activity, Conflict resolution, Hobby, Meditation, Mindfulness, Deep breathing, Yoga, Reading novels, Prayer, Relaxation techniques, Artistic expression, Relaxation, Humor, Physical exercise, Spending time in nature, Stress balls, Natural medicine, Planning, Decision making, Relaxing music, Spending quality time with pets, Time management and ask, “Which stress management tools have been involved in this exercise”?
- Can the participants create their own Fun Activity to release stress?
- Which technique is used by the participants to release their stress?
