• Favorite sport?

• Favorite food?

• Same shoe size?

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Two circles

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Suggested questions

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What is the best gift you ever got? When do you feel the most free?If you could meet any person alive in the world today, who would you want to meet?

What decisions are the hardest for you to make?

What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen?

What kind of trait do you like to see in your friends?

Select a word that you feel describes people your age.

In what country would you like to be?

Pick one of these and tell why you chose it: (1) gum; (2) a softball; (3) a satin shirt

Active games for group movement

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When to use

• GETTING TO KNOW YOU session

• Any point during the training or the conference itself

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Benefits

• Brings an element of fun and spontaneity into the training

• Helps them to relax after considering the serious issues of the Youth Alive training

• Note: Anything in games not appropriate to the culture, feel free to adapt it to make it acceptable

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• Helps build group cooperationand is rowdy in nature

• Line participants up according to:

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• First letter of their last names, alphabetically

• Their stature from shortest to tallest

• First letter of the city they come from, alphabetically

• Their chronological birthdates by the calendar

Line-up races

Active Games

• Tennis Ball Relay (See Youth Alive Participants’ Manual, page 32)

• Thread the Needle (See Youth Alive Participants’ Manual, page 31)

• Book Hug Tag (See Youth Alive Participants’ Manual, page 98)

• Kawt Tawt Bo (Ky By Bo) (See Youth Alive Participants’ Manual, page 29)

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Small Team Games• Stand Up (See Youth Alive

Participants’ Manual, page 105)Large Circle Games• Do You Love Your Neighbor? (See Youth Alive Participants’

Manual, page 100)• Four Up or Quick Shuffle (See Youth Alive Participants’ Manual,

page 102 and 104)Partner Games. Breaks down barriers. Change partners between rounds.• Bear-Hunter-Woman (See Youth Alive Participants’ Manual, page

35)• People to People (See Youth Alive Participants’ Manual, page 103)

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