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DIVIDING GROUPS


Line-Up

TYPE: Group Selection AGE: 3 and up PARTICIPANTS: 3 or more
EQUIPMENT: None
OBJECTIVE: Organize yourself in a particular order.
DESCRIPTION: Give the group a line to line-up on and a criteria. (ex: Age, Birthday, Height) You can time it to make it competitive.

Barn Yard Animals

TYPE: Group Selection AGE: 3 and up PARTICIPANTS: 3 or more
EQUIPMENT: None
OBJECTIVE: Group with like animals
DESCRIPTION: Choose three or more barn yard animals (depending on the number of groups you wish to make). With their eyes closed, they must make the noise of that animal and gather with animals that make the same noise.

Psychic Shake

TYPE: Group Selection AGE: 5 and up PARTICIPANTS: 15 or more
EQUIPMENT: None
OBJECTIVE: Group with people who selected the same number as you.
DESCRIPTION: Tell everyone to think of a number. Go to each person and shake their hand that many times. Stay with the people who have the same number of hand shakes. This works great with large groups of people.

People to People

TYPE: Group Selection / Icebreaker AGE: 5 and up PARTICIPANTS: 10 or more
EQUIPMENT: None
OBJECTIVE: Divide people or get them to socialize.
DESCRIPTION: The group mingles while the leader gives commands like "Back to Back", "Toe to Toe", "Hand to Butt." Other commands like "Same toothpaste can be used.

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