Circle Game
All children and adults sitting in a circle. “Hands up if you likes bananas” “hands up if you like chips”… ask a few more and then get chn to swap places – all bananas swap places with the chips…How quietly can we do this? Praise for being quiet.
Drama Alphabet and letters
in pairs – children make the shape of letters of the alphabet. The teacher says, A and the pair form an A… or chn work individually and trace their name out using their feet onto the floor.
A tale and two truths
Each person must make three statements about themselves, one of which isn’t true. (I have two brothers, I was born in Australia, I have a motorcycle).
Guess the Shoe
The group must guess, or vote on, which statement is the tale.
1. Split the group into 2 halves.
2. Get each half of the group to line up against opposite sides of the room or hall.
3. Get each person to take of 1 shoe and make a pile of their team’s shoes.
4. Get each person from one team to come a select a random shoe from the other team’s pile and then find the person that shoe belongs to.
5. Once they have found their match, have a question ready so each person in the pair can ask each other a get to know each other a little bit better. Make sure you don’t leave this time too long, but don’t make it too short either, give both people a chance to answer.
6. Get the other team to do the same process with the first team’s pile of shoes
Hoop around the circle
Pupils stand in a circle with hands linked, a hoop is placed in the circle at some point and the pupils have to move the hoop round the circle without breaking the links as quick as possible.
Pupils sit with their arms crossed and hold onto the wrist of person next to them. They must all face the centre of the circle and try to stand up together.
Pupils will start sitting back to back, they must then link arms and try to stand up
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