1. Interactions – Games for WGs and Plenary
WGs
Getting acquainted…
Names’ circle - Each member says his / her name and the names of all the people before him / her (3’)
The first letter – Each member says his / her name and a fruit, drink etc. beginning with the same letter
his / her name begins with (3’)
What would you bring with you – Each member says his / her name. The group is supposed to be
invited to GMS. The question the facilitator makes is “what would you bring with you to GMS?”
The group member has to answer, saying that he / she would bring an object starting with the
starting letter of his / her first name. Of course, this is something we don’t tell them from the
beginning and the game goes on until they understand the trick. (5’)
Say the name to the beat – The team decides to keep a certain pace by clapping their hands. Each team
member, following this pace, has to say his / her name and the name of the person siting next to
him / her (3’)
My role model - Each member says his / her name and the name of a personality he / she admires. Then,
he / she is asked to imagine and say what this role model would say about him / her (5’)
Drawing of myself – Each member of the group makes a drawing of himself and writes below it one or
more characteristics of him / herself. The facilitator mixes then the papers, hands them out to the
group member and asks them to find the person pictured on the paper, chat with him / her and then
present him / her to the rest of the group (15’)
Wrong & right – Each group member says 3 things about himself (characteristics, hobbies, beliefs etc.).
The 2 of them must true and the 1false. The rest of the group members have to guess which of them
were true and witch were fault. (10’)
Touching the face – The group members split in pairs. The one touches each other’s face. Afterwards,
we fold their eyes and as they are wondering in the room, they have to find –by touching the others
on the face- their pair (10’)
Stand in circle – the group members form a circle and one steps inside holding a newspaper. One group
member shouts another’s name. That person then has to shout another name of the group’s
members before the person inside hits him / her with the newspaper on the head. If he / she is not
fast enough and gets hit, steps in the circle and so on. (15’)
Interactive games
The joggler – the members of the group change places between them, before another one takes their
place. The member changing his / her place has to shout “help me” and then somebody has to shout
“come here”. The person who shouted “help me” takes the place of the one who shouted “come here”.
At the same time the one shouting “come here” has to shout “help me”, as he / she is loosing his / her
place and has to take somebody else’s place and so on… (10’)
Chasing people with balloons tied on their feet (10’)
Human sandwich – the members of the group form a “sandwich” with their bodies (5’)
Markers increasing – the members of the group throw each other markers in a specific order, adding one
each time. The game becomes more fun when the members of the group start moving. (10’)
Human knot – the members of the group mix their hands and then try to form a circle without loosening
their hands (15’)
Love train – some of the group members form a train. The rest of the members, who at the beginning
were out of the room, now enter the room and become part of the train. When the train stops moving, all
the members turn back and kiss each other, except for the last member, whom they beat. (5’)
Couples – the group members sit down in couples, the person in front embraces the other, and try to
switch places with the member in front of another couple after an eye blink (15’)

2. Groom / Knight / Horse – The facilitator shouts one of the previous words. The members of the group
split in pairs. When the facilitator shouts “groom” the one holds the other in their arms, when “Horse”
the one falls down on his knees and the other one stands above him and when “Knight” the one falls on
his knees and kisses the others hand (10’)
Little Bouda – each member makes a gesture and after a specific sign each one takes the gesture of the
person to his left (5’)
Human bridge - the members of the group form a “bridge” using only 3 feet, 2 hands, 1 bottom etc.
trying to move from one place to another (15’)
Give the pen – we give the pen to each other and someone decides if it was given in a right way or not.
The key is when giving it to give it in a specific way, let’s say always with the left hand (10’)
Telephone card / toothpick from mouth to mouth or an orange placed between the chin and neck passing
from one person to another (10’)
Glass of water – each group member holds with his teeth a plastic glass of water. We pour water into the
glass of the first member and the goal is the water to roll from one glass to the other, ending at the first
person without pouring it (10’)
Kiss the little rabbit – Pretend that there is a little rabbit that goes from one group member to the other
and each one kisses it on a certain spot. When the round ends, every group member is asked to kiss the
person next to him / her on the same spot of his / her own body (5’)
Kisses form a human body – put lipstick on the lips of each group member and with “kisses” try to draw
a human body. Preferably with two or more teams competing (10’)
The boat is sinking – The members are all gathered together. You then tell them… “The boat is sinking,
so split in groups of…” You then call the number of the members in the group, moving from 2 to 30 and
so on. The ones left out of the group loose and get out of the game
Colours – The members are all gathered together. The facilitator shouts out a colour or a drawing a
member of the group has on his / her clothes. The rest of the members then have to put their nose on the
certain spot. That is repeated many times, using rare colours and shapes.
Dream house – the members of the group, holding only one pen and without talking, try to draw their
dream house (10’)
Do you like your LC? – The facilitator asks one member: Do you like your LC? If the member says
“No” the facilitator asks: And who would you like to change with; The member answers then: With all
the people… wearing red underwear etc. And this goes one, unless the member says “Yes” (20’)
Clapping hands on the table – The group members put their hands on the table and mix them. Then start
clapping their hands on a row, the one following the other. If someone claps his hand twice, the flow
goes backwards (5’)
Bzzzzzzz – The group members say one by one “bzzzzzz”… When one says “change”, we change the
direction saying “bzzzzzz”. When he / she says “switch” the person sitting next to him / her loses his /
her turn and must not say “bzzzzzzzz” (5’)
Shape a square with a rope – The members age given a rope and blindfolded try to shape a perfect
square only through talking (10’)
Yogurt – the group members split in pairs, one holding a yogurt and a spoon and while both being
blindfolded try to feed each other (10’)
Marine jumps – energizer
Yes, right! – energizer

3. Mind traps
How many 9s from 0-100? – 09 – 89, 90 – 99. That makes 19
Good frog, bad frog – You make with your right hand the movements of a frog, saying before that
“That’s a good frog”. After making the movements, you say “OK!”. You then make similar
movements, saying “That’s a bad frog”. Then you ask them what’s the difference between the 2
frogs. The difference is that after showing the movements of the good frog you always say “OK!”
How to get a golf ball that’s fallen in a paper bag out of it without touching the bag? – Fill the bag with
water, burn the bag…
Splitting in groups
Take a number – the delegates are given a number (let’s say from 1 to 5 if you want to have 5 groups).
After that you send them to a corner, according to the number they have (5’)
The month you were born – we pick a number of months equal to the number of groups we want and
split the delegates in groups according to the month they were born in (5’)
Pick a fruit / color / food – You choose a certain number of fruits / colors / food, according to the
number of the groups you’d like to have. You ask them which one they would prefer and split them
to groups according to their preferences (there’s a possibility you will not have groups with equal
numbers of delegates) (5’)
Facilitating
Right arm forming a right angle – The group members are asked to form a right angle with their right
arm and move it up & down whenever something is not understood, or the facilitator is talking too fast
etc.
3 thoughts occurring to you – ask the group members in the beginning of the WG to write down on a
piece of paper 3 thoughts currently occurring in their minds. Ask them to scrub the paper and throw it
back, getting this way those thoughts out of their mind
Shadow – Each group member writes his / her name on a small piece of paper. The facilitator collects
them and hands them out to the rest group members. The facilitator then tells them that they should be
the “shadow” of the person whose name is written on the paper, that is watch him / her carefully and in
the end of the session tell some words about his / her presence in the group
Fondling your hands – Ask the group members to fondle their hands in each way they like, in a way that
the right palm touches the left angle and the opposite. As soon as they do it ask them to do it in a
different way. There is no wrong or right way, it’s the way everyone sees things!
Blind drawing – the members of the group all together try to describe a given shape or drawing to a
member of the group who now tries to picture it and draw it (10’)
Giving Feedback – Two people step up in plenary. The one turns his back. The other one –looking at the
first person’s back- forms a basket with his hands. The first person tries to put scrubs of paper in that
“human basket”. When he fails, the rest of the group tries to guide the first person by giving him
instructions on how to put the scrubbed papers in the basket (10’)
Plenary - Party
Boy – girl eating one banana
A horse riding…
Ice cube in a boy’s trousers
How many feet standing on one chair?
Shape the numbers 0-9 using your butt
Getting in a row being blindfolded according to each members height
Form a human bridge with hands and pass each member over it
The elephant
The Zulu tribe

4. Place chewing gums between the legs of some girls and send boys to pick them up…
Make the longest chain using your clothes
Lay down in a row and roll each other over
Kiss the paper – the group members split in pairs, boy-girl. They put crayon on their lips and the
facilitators holds high a blank piece of paper between them, telling them that the winning pair will be
the one making more crayon marks on the blank paper. They start jumping, kissing the paper, when the
facilitator pulls it back… (10’)
Transfer a coin using your bodies laid down one next to the other
Songs & interactions
Para – papa
Singing in the rain
My name is Joe
Ouh kalele
Τse tse kore
Amborigate
Epo –I- taita
Hei @
Father Abraham
Un cocomero
A ram sam sam
Tou tou e…
Vempire che
Merekete
Let me see an @er