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We did this at a "getting to know you night" a while back. It
was a lot of fun. We had each sister write down something about themselves
that the others would not know. We then folded the papers up, pulled
them from a hat, and read them aloud. We had to guess which sister
wrote which thing. Some were fairly easy to figure out, but you'd
be surprised at the experiences these women have had!
1) Bingo- I decided to use this idea.
Make up a card with 9 to 12 squares ( or can do in a list on paper). In each square put something different. I used:
I have been married more than 10 years
I have more than 3 children
I work at the school
I live in the rural area of Raetihi
I have a girl In Pippins
I have a girl in Guides
I have a girl in Brownies
I am married to a man whose first name is Leon. ( this is me and everyone
calls my husband Peter which is his second name)
I have been to a movie in the last month
I was born overseas
I have been to a restaurant for dinner in the last month'
I was a Brownie/Guide/Pippin when I was younger.
You then get everyone to get their squares signed off. No-one can sign
more than 2 squares.
2) Toilet paper tell all
Hand around a roll of toilet paper and tell people to pull off as many
squares as they think they'll need.
Once everyone has done that, they then have to say one thing about
themselves for each square that they took.
3) The Name Game
You can use small balls, but I found that 6 clean socks, rolled from the toe and folded into the elastic at the top worked better (didn't roll away!)
The first person has all the socks, but just starts off with one. She calls the name of one person in the room (who is not immediately on her right or left) and tosses the sock to her. That person calls the name of someone else and then tosses the sock to her. This continues with no one calling the name of anyone who has already had a sock tossed in their direction, until everyone has had the sock and the last person calls the first person's name and tosses the sock back to her. Now you do the whole thing again, in the same order. When everyone is comfortable with that (usually a couple of rounds does it!) after you have thrown the first sock, wait until your tossee has her hands free and toss her the second sock. You can explain that you are going to introduce more socks if you wish. Slowly, add more socks to the mix until there are socks flying everywhere. If people do not catch on, or if you are teaching this to adults who will be teaching it with children, you can stop things and explain that you want to make 7 perfect rotations, where all 6 socks don't touch the ground. The group (this is cooperative, as well as get to know you!) will probably figure out that they must wait till their 'partner' is watching and ready before they toss the sock to them, and some will figure to throw high and some low. This game is a lot of fun!
4) Profession Backcards
Use recipe cards and clothespegs. Write the name of a profession on the card, and as each person comes in, use the clothespeg to attach it to the back of their clothing, where they can't read it. Each person may ask each other person in the room a "yes" or "no" question related to their profession. Again, because you have a smallish group, you can allow them to ask more than one question of each person - BUT not all at the same time. For instance, Barb could ask you one question (and answer one for you) but then she has to find two other people to query before she can come back and ask you another. This way she will be forced to mix. (If you don't want to do professions you can do cartoon characters, important historical figures, movie stars, etc. However if you do movie stars you might run into someone like me who doesn't watch much TV and hasn't got a clue!)
5) A Getting to Know You Game
Give each person a card. (Index type 3"x 5'"or 5"x 8") or paper is okay Ask each person to write down 3-5 facts about themselves. Give them some ideas: Where you were born, family size, what you do for fun, what you do for work, Collect all the cards. Have the players pair up with a partner. You read the clues and the partners as a team try to guess who this person is. Each team/partner group that guesses right... gets one point. And yes, partners can guess when their own name comes up.
6) Balloon Pop
Equipment: balloons and string.
Blow up balloons and tie string around them so you have about 12-18
inches left.
Each participant ties the balloon around their ankle.
Object: stomp on someone else's balloon but try to "protect" yours. Whenever a balloon breaks, everyone has to stop. If it's a get-acquainted game, the person who lost their balloon tells the group who they are. You can also do this with trivia - put a trivia (GS or other) inside the balloon before it's blown up, and the group has to stop and answer that question ("What's a Service Unit?" "What does "WAGGGS" stand for?" or whatever is right for your group). Everyone keeps playing until the last balloon is broken (you can give a prize if you choose for the last person).
7) Embarrassing Moments
1) Have each person come up with three embarrassing situations (the more bizarre, the better). Two of them have to be true, the third, fake. Each person in turn lists off their embarrassing moments. The other sisters have to decide which one is fake! This is good for lots of laughs.
2) Have each person write down an embarrassing situation that happened to them on a little piece of paper. (The person running the game can also write down a couple of "false" ones, to make the number of situations greater than the number of players.)
3) Collect the papers together, and read them off one by one. The group then must decide who the embarrassing moment belongs to, or if it's fake.
I have also played this game using personal quirks (i.e., I always put
my right shoe on beforeGIF87a^