Energizers
Fishy business
Facilitator starts the game with a phrase: “I`m fishing in the river, what I caught will
make you shiver! I caught a…” If the facilitator says the word fish, participants need
to express how fish act. If a facilitator says a bodybuilder, everybody needs to
express lifting weights and getting photographed for a magazine. If the facilitator
says a ventilator, participants start running around and if they face each other, they
jump away like they are blown away. If needed you can add more options.
Karate kid
The participants stand in a circle and act as a karate master. Once the facilitator says
“the sun is shining”, everyone closes their eyes and freezes. The facilitator taps one
of the participants and shows him a new character to act. Then the facilitator says:
“the sun is out”, everyone opens their eyes and continue to act as a karate master.
When they spot a new character they need to quickly change to the new character,
the last one who switches becomes the facilitator.
Body language
The group is broken into 2-3 teams. The participants move randomly and when the
facilitator names a body part participants need to touch everybody within a team
with this body part.
Conductor
The participants pick a vowel and a conductor for their choir. The conductor starts
gesticulating and showing the tempo and volume of the sound. The rest has to follow
the gestures of the conductor. Vowels and conductors can be changed at any point
in the game.
Don’t tickle me, grandma
One participant is picked to be “it”. He starts to laugh hysterically. The rest is approaching
him and tickling, while laughing like an old lady. When the “it” stops laughing the
rest has to jump away. Who is closer to the previous “it” becomes “it” and the game
continues.
Vai, vai, vai
Participants stand in a circle, the first participant says any word, others repeat the
word and add the phrase “vai, vai, vai”. And this continues until the 4th person in the
circle. The 4th person has to pick one word out of the previous three and mime it. If the
rest likes the miming they say “uhlala” and if they don’t, then “meh…” If the mime
received “uhlala” he starts by saying a new word. If he received “meh…” then he
skips a turn and the first word is said by the person next to him.
Unreal story
The participants move randomly in the room. The facilitator shouts out an unusual
situation e.g. meeting of a shark and a bear in the 16th century. Participants have to
act this situation out. The game continues with various situations so that participants
can quickly acquire new roles.