Oh so close!
Well well well. I almost managed to use Kathy's body percussion thing with the residential group but sort of bottled it. I say 'sort of' because 2/3 of the group were sitting on the steps outside the dining hall waiting for the other 1/3 to come in for tea. They were incredibly noisy and had no instructor to keep them entertained, and the teachers were just standing around doing nothing. So I saw an opportunity to keep them entertained and to test my own ability to actually get their attention (they're a tough group this week) at the same time. Alas, rather than just standing at the front to go for it, I asked the teacher whether I could 'try to teach them a rhythm thing' ... big mistake. She said no, they just needed to rest. I'm not going to go into a long babble, but frankly I disagreed, and I'm annoyed with myself for not having the guts to just get on and do it.
However, tomorrow will be better. I'm leading one session of team challenge, and hoping to team teach the session before that. This particular group have virtually no listening skills so I think I'll try to start off with them being in pairs with one blindfolded and the other guiding them around cones by humming. I did consider attempting a small soundscape but I'm not sure that right now I can make it work with them - at least with the humming pairs there is a tangible completion of the challenge. So ... we shall see.