Game Materials
Valentine Cards

Game Objective
Youth match their pieces to the card design to find their groups in this Valentine’s Day crowdbreaker.

Game Preparation
1. Select the front panels of several Valentine’s Cards with different pictures. Use 2 identical cards for each group. Each group must have different card.
2. Cut one card of the 2 cards into pieces. The other card remains intact. The number of pieces is determined by the number of people you want to have on each team.
3. Write a question on the back of each piece. Questions should be along the lines of:
* What is your idea of “True Love”?
* What is one characteristics of your ideal mate?
* What was the most romantic date you ever had?
* What was the most special gift you ever gave to someone you love?
* What is the most romantic movie you have seen?
ETC..
4. Place the remaining uncut card on the wall or at each table.
5. One good idea is the keep the peices separate until needed. Once everyone has arrived, place the necessary number of peices in a bag and mix them up.
6. When each person enters the room they are given a piece of the cards that have been cut into jigsaw puzzles, with the question at the back of each.
7. Participants must ask people the question found on the puzzle piece and find the rest of the people whose pieces combine to form 1 card. 8. You may only reveal your puzzle peice after you have answered the question of each other.
9. Only once the puzzle is solved, are participants allowed to find out their respective table or location to group together by matching the picture of the puzzle with the uncut version.

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Materials
1. sticky tape
2. pieces of paper of different colors
Note: To make it easier, add small pieces of double sided tape to each piece of paper so that youth only need to peel off the covering strip to reveal the adhesive.

Game Objective
Youth walk around the room introducing themselves to each other and taping colored paper pieces to people who remind them of that color in some way.

Game Play
1. Give youth several different-color pieces of construction paper and tape.
2. Have kids each walk around the room and introduce themselves to each other. They must share their name and something unique about themselves.
3. As youth are mingling, they must tape each of their construction paper pieces to people who remind them of that color. As they do so, they must tell the recipient why they chose that color for the person. For example, someone may pick Pink for a girl who’s always cheerful, blue for a guy who’s caring and warm, or brown from someone who is “down to earth.”. Comments must be positive in nature.

Note: Leaders should participate and be proactive to ensure all kids are receiving positive comments. If one or more of the youths seems to be getting little attention, personally provide a positive comment for them.

Application
A rainbow is made of many colors. Its the play of various colors that give it its beauty. A rainbow is also the symbol of promise, or hope. God created us all special and we each hold great promise to bring our gifts and talents to brighten up the lives of others and make life more colorful!

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Game Materials
None

Game Objective
Kids are to introduce themselves and tell the group who they would most like to be other than themselves. They may name fictional characters or actual people, either living or dead. For example, kids could name Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Meryl Streep, Michael Jordan, or Joan of Arc. Kids should not explain their choices. Allow kids to enjoy the mystery of the “why” behind each other’s choices.

Variation
Have kids introduce themselves as the characters or persons they’d like to be and tell their real names later in the meeting or event.

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Game Materials
Print the list of items on a sheet of paper for each person.

Game Objective
Each person must perform the action in front of someone and then those who participated or observed must sign beside the item. Items can be arranged in a normal bingo grid or simply as a list for simplicity. Whoever gets all the items signed first, wins! Wacky and silly fun for everyone. Have a digital camera ready for some really crazy snapshots!

Some possible items are:
* Tell a Joke
* Pretend you are taking a bath or shower in the middle of the room!
* Select someone else to sing a song with you.
* Recite a nursery rhyme.
* Imitate a comic strip character until someone guesses it’s identity.
* Behave like a duck for 10 seconds
* Say something nice about three different people in the room.
* Shake hands with three other people in the room.
* Pantomime a two year old child taking a bone away from a german shepherd dog.
* Walk from one end of the room to the other with an object between you knees.
* Act like an egg being cracked and fried.
* Do an impression of a well known celebrity. Identify the person first.
* Confer with another person and make a short poem about one of the leaders
* Select a few people to aid you in selecting a scene from a popular Bible story and act it out.
* Draw a picture of yourself and give it to someone in the room.
* Find something in your pocket or purse to give to the person on your left.
* Retell the story of Goldilocks and the three bears using the name of four other people in the room as the bears and Goldilocks.
ETC. ADD Your Own Crazy Actions!

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An acrostic is an arrangement of words in which certain letters in each line, when taken in order, spell out a word or motto. Ask group members to introduce themselves to each other by using words or phrases that describe them to create acrostics of their own names (or nicknames).

For example:
DIANE: Dynamic, Independent, Able, No-nonsense, Enthusiastic.
TODD: Tried and true, Oh boy, a boy!, Diamond in the rough, Destined for glory.

Variation
Have kids mix up the order of the letters in their names. Then have the rest of the group attempt to figure out each name.

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Choose one of the following questions or statements, then have kids introduce themselves by stating their names and responses to the question or statement.

* What is the loudest noise you’ve ever heard?
* What is your earliest memory?
* What is one thing you hope will happen in this group?
* Name all of the places you have lived.
* What is the funniest movie scene you’ve seen?
* Tell about a nickname you had as a child.
* Describe the most extreme weather condition you’ve been in.
* Name one good thing that has happened in another group you have been in.
* Where is your favorite place in nature?
* What is your middle name, or what do you think it should have been?
* Describe the best meal you’ve ever eaten.
* What’s your favorite song? (To add some risk, ask kids to sing a few bars.)
* Describe the most unusual thing that’s happened to you.
* What’s the best thing a friend ever told you?
* What’s the worse chore you’ve ever had?

Select a new question or statement each time you meet with kids.

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