For any of you who have been in my workshops you’re unlikely to forget “The Mingle Game.”

Ninja Tip:  Choose a different verb instead of “mingle” every time you play it to keep it fresh! 

And Setareh has just sent in a really great bonus idea…

1.  Do the mingle game as usual.

2.  The kids ask you “What’s your favourite colour?”

3.  After doing a few “Sorry?”s  to get them to say it louder, you say one, two or three colours e.g. “Red & Blue.   Pink & Green”

4.  Kids who have one of these colours get into groups with other kids who have this colour e.g. all the people with red & blue things get together,  all the pinks & greens get together etc.  If you several colours both, you can choose which group.

5.  Everyone else goes into one group.

6.  Do this a few times until you roughly have the right number of students you want in each group!

Ninja Tip:  If your school has a uniform (i.e. everyone wears the same colours!) then just pin a minicard to everyone’s top and they get in groups based on these colours.

Ninja Tip2:  You can even take this one step further and use any theme’s minicards! 🙂

What are your favourite group making games?  Do let us know in the comments!

Be genki,

Richard

P.S.   This game also works great with the upcoming Summer Clothes song!