The goal of this game is to work your way up by beating other players at Rock-Scissors-Paper to the “position” of king or queen.Everyone starts out as an egg. You find another egg and play Rock-Scissors-Paper. The winner "grows" into a chicken who finds another chicken to play against. Whoever wins "grows" into a dinosaur. The loser returns to...
Pass out Valentine "conversational" heart candy to everyone, then split up into groups and have each group come up with a poem or funny story using what it says on their hearts.Added by Young LifeAlso, see Valentine Toe Freezer 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...
MAIN POINT: Getting to know youFor this game, you'll need as many pens as students and a pre-typed/copied questionnaire.Have all your students fill out an anonymous questionnaire when they come in, with questions/statements like, "My favorite band is.." "My dream car is...". Once finished, pass the questionnaires out randomly (to someone different than the person who filled it out)...
Depending on the size of your group, this game could work as an Up Front Game (for a large group—the group watches while a few do the activity in front of the group, entertaining the rest) or as a Mixer (for a small group—in a group of 8-12 kids you could involve almost everyone.Create a circle with chairs and...
Before kids arrive, prepare name-tags by writing an easy-to-read number on each one. Also prepare slips of paper with instructions such as "Introduce #4 to #12, "Find out #7’s favorite pizza topping," "Shake hands with #5 and #13," and so on. Don’t use numbers higher than the number of kids expected. It’s better to make instructions for #1 to...