Split the room up into groups and give each group five words on a card. They need to make up a song and have those words be in it. This works well on theme nights - for example, holiday or western.Added by Young LifeAlso, see Song Endurance on our Anywhere games page.
This is a great mingling game. One or two people will have a dollar. Everyone goes around shaking hands. Each student with a dollar passes his/her dollar off to the tenth person he/she shakes hands with. Keep going... if you get the dollar, pass off to tenth person. When music stops, person with dollar keeps it.Added by Young LifeAlso...
MAIN POINT: Motivator for positive self-esteem.Items Needed: Paper, markers or ink pens, and you can either use clothespins, tape or safety pins to apply the paper hands.You can either pre-make paper hands or have each participant trace their own hand on paper and pin it on their back. Then the whole group walks around and writes a one-word POSITIVE...
The group sits in a circle. Each member gives the person on their right a "trigger," such as, "Every time Jenny smiles, you must stand up and sing The Star Spangled Banner." On "Go," everyone watches for their trigger. The object of the game is to guess what other peoples' triggers are.Added by Errin Martin
Great game for travel or small group. One person starts a story – any kind of story (i.e. “Once upon a time there was a bear named Horatio…”). The person in the next seat continues the story (i.e. “Horatio was a dumb, but friendly bear with zits all over his fur-face…”). Each person adds a statement to the story....
Travel Game: See who can find the letters of the alphabet in order just by looking at signs along the journey.Added by Jenny SchnecklothAlso see Atlas, Sentence Game, both on the Anywhere page & Mad Sentence Dash on the Upfront page.
Same as “Rock-Scissors-Paper”, only you use your whole body. Play it up huge, having someone demonstrate each:Ninja: guy in karate stance yelling “waaaaa!”Gun: hold finger gun and say “BANG!”Gorilla: arms in air & beating chest, saying “ooo, ooo, ahh, ahh, ahh!”"Ninja beats gun.Gun beats gorilla.Gorilla beats ninja.If there's a tie, you die!"Keep going until all are eliminated; fun to...