Too Hot

“TOO HOT” takes its origin from the combination of “rope jump” and “scoop ball ”. This game invites children to move with a certain pace mainly jumping, to play and to learn through movement. It teaches them not only skills such as balance, concentration, attention, but also push them to reflect on the problem of global warming by making them develop a sense of protection towards an object they care about and introduce them to the fact that, they have to challenge them self inorder to protect what they love. Players are assigned with the name of ice cream flavors so that they could personificate them selves with the first main caracter of the game, Mr. Gelato. While they are positioned around the area of the game, they have to keep distance from each other. Each player holds in hands an ice cream cone made of cardboard and paper balls inside it. The choice of materials is congruente to the theme of global warming.The game’s mediator turns the central handle so the players have to try to jump over it without getting touched and of course they to avoid getting the balls out of the cone as they jump. Every 3/4 turns of the handle (as temperatures rise), players move to the inner circle where they have to jump higher. The latter happens because the handle is designed to stay transversaly and not parallel to the ground, thanks to the central meccanism. The game continues this way until there is only one or two players left with one or more balls inside the cone.