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I ordered the Thinking Sticks a while ago, and we LOVED them. (I think Sandra
said we were her first Paypal cutomers!) Anyway, at Christmas we have a
tradition of making gifts for one another, and, inspired by the TS, I made my
son and partner a Skit Kit. The sticks have characters, situations, places,
props, etc., and they can take one, two, or more and create quick skits.
We've also used them for the church Youth Group.

Kathryn


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Susan

-=- I have two orders today for Thinking Sticks, one from Australia
and one from the U.K. I'm nearly out of Thinking Sticks and so
needing to make some anyway -=-


Hi Sandra -- I've looked up Thinking Sticks on your site but I can't
quite get a grasp on what they are / how they are used. Can you
explain a little bit? I'm intrigued.

-- Susan

Sandra Dodd

-=-Hi Sandra -- I've looked up Thinking Sticks on your site but I can't
quite get a grasp on what they are / how they are used. Can you
explain a little bit? I'm intrigued.-=-

If I explain too much, the directions won't be as fun as they are.

You throw two sticks down and think of a connection between those two
things that no one in your group has stated before.

There's more, but that's enough.

They first came out of a workshop years ago on hard thinking made
simple (I think it was called).


Sandra

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Helen Cain

>You throw two sticks down and think of a connection between those two
>things that no one in your group has stated before.

We use them in the car sometimes. Nicola sits in the front next to
me, and "controls" them. We take it in turns to ask for a colour and
she pulls out a stick that colour, then reads the 2 words off it,
then we all have a bit of a free-for-all coming up with connections.

It leads into all sorts of conversations, musings, questions to look
up later...

I decided to get them because postage for Sandra's book or for
Sandra's book + thinking sticks was the same amount. It seemed silly
to "waste" that extra postage potential. <vbg>

Cheers
Helen in Melbourne, Australia

Ed Wendell

These sound fantastic for grabbing for on the go times. Due to hubby's illness we end up in doctor offices a lot and this sounds like something fun we could tote along and do together. Thanks for the info.

Lisa





----- Original Message -----
From: Helen Cain
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] Thinking Sticks




>You throw two sticks down and think of a connection between those two
>things that no one in your group has stated before.

We use them in the car sometimes. Nicola sits in the front next to
me, and "controls" them. We take it in turns to ask for a colour and
she pulls out a stick that colour, then reads the 2 words off it,
then we all have a bit of a free-for-all coming up with connections.

It leads into all sorts of conversations, musings, questions to look
up later...

I decided to get them because postage for Sandra's book or for
Sandra's book + thinking sticks was the same amount. It seemed silly
to "waste" that extra postage potential. <vbg>

Cheers
Helen in Melbourne, Australia





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Sandra Dodd

-=-These sound fantastic for grabbing for on the go times. Due to
hubby's illness we end up in doctor offices a lot and this sounds
like something fun we could tote along and do together.-=-

They're very portable, and there are lots of games to play with them.

Sandra

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