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45. Circumference Mixer Have teams of the same number of people. Tell group to get in a tight circle of smallest circumference and measure.
46. Dollar In The Crowd Mixer Mingling game. One or two people have a dollar. Everyone goes around shaking hands. Person with dollar passes off dollar to tenth person he shakes. Keep going...if you get dollar, pass off to tenth person. When music stops, person with dollar keeps it.
47. Your Number Is Up Mixer Instruct your whole group to walk randomly around the room. About every ten seconds or so, call out a number. Everyone in the game must immediately form a group hug made up of the number of people that you called. This sometimes leaves some people unable to form a group because they don’t have enough people – they are out of the game. Repeat until you only have two people left and declare them the winners.
48. Body Parts Mixer Each kid has a partner. Mingle, then call out two body parts and they put those two parts together. Ie. Nose to toe.
49. Organized Mingling Mixer Students mingle to music and shake hands. When the music stops, leader calls out a question they must ask of whomever they are shaking hands. Use fun and serious questions.
50. Rainbow Soccer Mixer Two teams, each with a bunch of balloons. Each team has only one color balloon. Goalie for each team stands opposite his team with a large container. Try to get your balloons to goalie and into container while keeping the other balloons out by popping, etc.
51. Conversational Hearts Mixer Pass out valentine conversational hearts to everyone, then split up into groups and have each group come up with a poem using what it says on their hearts.
52. Farm Animal Mixer Give everyone a piece of paper with a name of a farm animal on it, then during the mixer time have everyone make the noise of the farm animal and get with the same animals. This works well with a strobe light and the lights off too.
53. Names On Backs Mixer As students come into club put a sticker on each person’s back that has the name of someone on it. During the mixer time they have to ask yes/no questions to find out who they are and then find their partner. Example – Kermit and Miss Piggy, or Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus.
54. Fruit Sculpture Mixer Break up into groups of 7 or 8 and make sculptures out of the fruit given to your group, then meet the people in your groups.
55. Water Buckets Mixer Get four groups into a line with one bucket of water on the end. Have small cups used to pass down the water to the opposite end of the line and fill up an empty bucket. The first line done wins.
56. Flour Bag Pass Mixer Separate the club into big lines and see which one can pass a bag of flour overhead to the back of the line and then back up front the fastest (cut some small holes in the bag first). This Mixer is extremely messy.
57. Human Knots Mixer Separate the club into small circles. Everyone grabs the hand of a person not standing next to them. The first team to untangle back into a circle wins.
58. Candy Match-Up Mixer Hand out (one to each) all sorts of mixed up candy. Have students match theirs to others who have the same and have them introduce each other or tell something about themselves when they get into their groups.
59. Lengths-Of-String Mixer Everyone gets a length of string. Each string is the same length as one other person in the room. Students have to match up with his/her partner.
60. Spoons Mixer Play the game of spoons with everyone.
61. Cross The Room If Mixer Divide the room in half and have students, “Cross the room if ….”
62. Cut Up Pictures Mixer Use old camp or club pictures, cut them up into 3 or 4 pieces, mix all the pictures up and hand them out. They have to put the picture back together.
63. Song Making Mixer Split the room up into groups and give each group five words on a card. They need to make up a song with those words. This works well on theme nights, for example, come up with a western song.
64. Paper Plate Musical Chairs Mixer Have paper plates scattered throughout the room. When the music stops everyone must be touching the plate. If they are not, then they are out. Take out more plates every time.
65. Hula Hoop Pass Mixer Have two large circles hold hands and compete against each other trying to pass their whole team through the hula-hoop.
66. Crap Throw Mixer Divide the room into four sections by putting tape on the floor. Have a ton of newspaper and toilet paper or whatever else you can find and the object is to get all of the stuff out of your section and into the other team’s section.
67. Michael Jackson/Punker/Rocky Mixer Just like paper/rock/scissors – great for 80’s night.
68. Twister Clothes Mixer Have a Twister spinner and have people connect with colors on people’s clothes instead of dots on the ground.
70. Pumpkin Decorating Mixer Divide into groups of 4 or 5 and give each group a pumpkin which they need to draw a face on with markers. Works great around October 31.
70. Group Charades Mixer Dive the group up and give each group something that they need to act out for the other groups to guess what it is. Use: poison gas in the room, laughing gas, we’re naked, bad odor in the room, etc.
71. Closest Birthday Mixer Have everyone line up according to what their birthday’s are.
72. Shuffle The Deck Mixer Hand everyone a playing card as they come in to club. During the mixer call out different combinations that they have to come up with.
73. Q-tip Wars Mixer Divide the room in half. It might help to put a strip of tape down the middle. Each person gets a straw. Each side gets a bunch of Q-tips. If you can get different colors for each team that would be the best, otherwise just visually judge at the end. The task is to get as many of your Q-tips on to the other side in the allotted time. When time is up, see who has the most Q-tips on their side. The only problem is that Q-tips continually fly the rest of the evening. That can cause distractions during the message.
74. Scramble Mixer Break into teams and have them: arrange themselves by height, by birthdays, alphabetically by mothers maiden name, build a pyramid, sing a scale, each person signing a note. 75. Quick Draw Mixer Divide into tams and have each team get as far away from each other as possible (in four corners of the room). The leader is in the center of the room and holds two boxes (one for each team) containing about twenty words or phrases on little slips of paper. When the game begins, one member from each team runs to the center, takes a slip of paper out of their team’s box, reads it and gives it to the leader who discards it. The player then runs back to his/her team, picks up a drawing pad and a marking pen and tries to draw the word or phrase. No letters or words are alowed, only pictures. The team tries to guess the word or phrase by looking at the drawing. The artist may not speak until someone finally guesses correctly. As soon as the word or phrase is guessed, the next player runs to the leader and draws another slip of paper. Play continues until one team finishes all twenty. The twenty words and phrases should be the same for all teams. Also, it might be wise to have an adult referee with each team. In that case, each contestant should bring the slip of paper to his team referee so he knows what the phrase is and can determine when it is guessed.
76. Pockets Mixer Divide into groups of four or five. Everyone in the group should empty their pockets, wallets, pocketbooks, etc. The group should try to have one possession that begins with each letter of the alphabet. The winning group is the one to have objects representing the most number of letters.
77. Gossip Mixer Select a very short story or news clip from the paper. Have everyone sit in a circle. Give the news clip to the first person and have him read it to himself. He must then whisper the story to the person on his right. The story continues this way around the circle until the last person hears the story. Hey must then tell it out loud. Naturally the story will be somewhat different.
78. Name Game Mixer Everyone starts out in a circle. One person (or however many needed depending on the size of the group) goes around to a person in the circle and asks that person their name. They shout and dance the name and then go to another person with the first person hanging on to the hips of the second person. Repeat this and build a chain running all around crashing into the other chains until everyone is doing it.
79. Newspaper Mixer Split up into teams and hand out a newspaper to each. Then call out different things that they need to find.
80. Toothpick Mixer Pass Life-savors one to another by using toothpicks in their mouths. Race against teams.
81. Bike Tube Mixer Break up into even teams and see how many people you can get inside of a bike inner-tube.
82. Pyramid Clumps Mixer Have your kids mill around the room. Then the least blows the whistle or horn and yells out a number. Then the participants seek out the called number of kids and build a pyramid with them. Individuals and pyramids without the correct number are out.
83. Back To Back Mixer Divide your group into pairs and have them sit on the floor back to back and link arms. Then tell them to stand up. With a little timing in can be done. Then combine the twos into a foursome and do the same. Keep adding more people to the group until the giant blob can’t stand up.
84. Snap Crackle Pop Mixer Cut off the front panel of several cereal boxes – one for each group you want to form then cut up each panel into puzzle shapes- one for each person in the group. Mix together all the pieces and give one to each person and have them compete to find their cereal.
85. Co-Op Spelling Mixer Pin a large card bearing a letter of the alphabet to each member’s arm. Give each person a small card and a pencil. The goal is for letters to get together and spell words. Once you’ve spelled a word, write the word on your card. Then separate everyone and look for new words. Award a prize to the longest list of words. Catch the cheaters by excluding vowels or certain consonants!
86. Life’s Little Puzzle Mixer As kids arrive, give them each the piece to a kid’s jigsaw puzzle. If you have extras left over, place them back into the correct puzzle frames. Put all frames in the center of the room. Have kids locate the correct puzzles to which their pieces belong. The first group to completely put a puzzle together wins.
87. Mr. Potato Head Mixer Break the group into teams of four kids, and give each team a potato, toothpicks, and vegetable pieces. The object is for each team to make the funniest, most creative potato person possible. If you desire, you can turn this into a competition between the teams and give out prizes.
88. It’s the Pits Mixer Divide the group into equal teams (6 to 10 on a team). Give each team a Nerf ball. On “go”, each member of the team passes the ball from armpit to armpit without the assistance of hands. If the ball is dropped or touched by a team member’s hand, the team starts over again. The first team to pass the ball successfully to each member and then back is the winner.
