3 get to know you games
A Shoe About You
A Penny for your Thoughts from Latter-Day Village
Balderdash by Annalee Gomm / ga10232007 - A get to know you version of Balderdash
Bingo game: We made a piece of paper that had 25 squares. Each square was for a name. Each person went around the room and got everyone's name. Correct spelling!!! We all sat down after 10 min. We were in a circle. We went around the circle and said who we were. You got to cross off the name and whoever got bingo got a mini candy bar. WE HAD A BLAST!!!!  (Shay in Nebraska)
Candy Bar Get-to-know you 
Chatter Bugs! from Latter-Day Village
Building each other up! - Each table has a bag of a few things: marshmallows, stick of gum, straws, index cards, paper clips, etc.  Each table has 5 minutes to see who could build the tallest structure without it falling, using only the on the table.
Envelope Game
Fast Friends by Lara Purdie - Similar to how Speed Dating works, each person is paired up and then rotates to a new person.
Fortune Cookies from Latter-Day Village
Friendship Circle
Get Acquainted and Name Games
Get to know you games from Primary Etc.
Get to know you night / Youth Activity
Give me that Hershey Bar!   
Human Scavenger Hunt from Latter-Day Village
I need a Suggestion from Latter-Day Village
Ice Breaker Games from Creative Ladies Ministry
Ice Breakers!
If this is you...stand up.
I've never _________ Game!
Jenga
M&M Activity
Me in a Bag
Musical Chairs Game
My name is icebreaker
Pick up sticks mixer game
Silent Interviews
The blanket game
The envelope game
The penny game
The Yarn Game
Trading Spaces
Unity Games
Vortex
Wok & Talk

OTHER GAMES:

A What?
Baby Steps
Candy Bar Concentration from The Idea Door (www.theideadoor.com)
Candy Clue - A Matching Game
Fruit Basket
Group Jump Rope
Hot name?
Human knot
Poison Apples or Snowballs - Roll up newspaper into balls and wrap in duct or packaging tape to keep into "balls". You could also make "sock balls". Divide area into 2 teams/2 sides. Set a timer and teams throw "balls" across at other team. When timer goes off, team w/ fewest SNOWBALLS on their side of the divided room wins.
Where am I? - I took pictures at funny angles of areas around town (or you could do your neighborhood). I had about 12 of them and hung them around the room. Just numbered them 1-12 and everyone had to guess where I was. It was fun.

OTHER:

Get to know you questions
Ice breaker bowls

RELAY RACES/GAMES:

Balloon Relay
Everyone was asked to bring two identical things from home (i.e. two hammers, two sharpies, two brooms) and the leaders provide five red balloons, five blue balloons, a trash can, and two rolls of masking tape. You divide youth in two teams...the red team and the blue team...each gets five balloons of their team's colors and half of the identical household items. The goal was for each of the groups to build some sort of MacGyver (80's TV Show Fix-it Guy that always managed to save the world) tool to take the balloons one at a time to the trash can which was set under the basketball goal. They couldn't step into the free throw area. After they deposited each balloon they had to take apart the Tool and put it back together.   They LOVED it and had a blast.  (Idea by Stephanie Thomas / ga04062007)
Ice skating game - Have the first child in the group put on a pair of mittens or gloves, a hat, and a scarf. Then put 2 pieces of paper on the floor and have the children "ice skate" to the end of the room, around a chair, and back to their team. Then the next child goes. The object is to keep the pieces of paper under your feet the whole time.  (Shannon Jeffords)
Snowball relay - place a bowl with cotton balls and a large spoon in front of each child. Have the first person place a "snowball" on the spoon (without touching it with their hands) and run to the end of the room where another bowl waits and deposit their snowball. Then each child follows.
We had two identical Lego structures with two people in the gym who could see it. Then we had two people they explained it to. Those two explained it to two others. Those two explained it to two others who tried to build it at the other end of the hall with a set of Legos. It was hilarious to see what they came up with. (Idea by Stephanie Thomas / ga04062007)
You put cotton balls on a table. You put a dab of Vaseline on the end of the kids nose. They have to run to the cotton ball and pick one up with their nose and run back and tag their teammate. It is a super fun relay race. 




Simple Ideas that are a big hit:

At my 10 year old's slumber party we made homemade pizzas (a big hit), stamped and decorated a note pad, tied a quilt, and watched 2 movies. I tied most of the quilt, but the girls really liked helping out. It was a gift for my daughter, so it was relevant to the party. (Idea by Maria Prescott)
Bean-bag toss (make holes in a large cardboard box and throw socks rather than buying something)
Bowling with pop bottles
Hot potato
Memory games (I'm going to grandmas, and I'm taking . . .)
Musical Chairs
Pin the Tail on the Donkey (or any related pin the ____ on the _____)
Present-opening games
Read-aloud stories, add-on stories
Red-light/green-light, what time is it Mr Wolf, etc.
Relay races (obstacles, eggs, dress-up, three-legged, etc.)
Some free-play time after presents are opened