Comparing Factory Game

On the twenty-first of August our Humanities class did and activity called the factory game. We had to pretend we were peasants in the 1700's. It was our younger sisiter/brother's birthday, and we had to come up with something to give them, with very limited supplies. I found this activity very fun and not at all pressuring . On the next day, we did an activity along the same lines, called factory game 2. Now, once we had chosen a favorite gift, Mr Coyle told us that now we had become a factory. Our mission was to make as many of those bears as we possibly could in 45 minutes. I have never before experienced such a crazy, overwhelming, pressurizing task. We weren't allowed to talk, take our time, relax OR EVEN BREATHE! We divided ourselves into groups of people who cut, glue, and color. I preferred the Factory Game 1 by far!