This is a Classic Icebreaker, Get to you you, First day Game. It would also be fun at birthday parties or other events entertaining youth.
How to Play:
Have everyone sit in a circle with you in the center. You can either sit in chairs, or have place markers behind each person.
Name off something you have, have done, or can do (ie “Cross if you have ever been to a foreign country, you can do a flip on a trampoline, if you own a dog that can do a trick, if you like to downhill ski, if you have a younger brother who likes to spend time with you etc).
Those people that can give a positive answer to the question will cross the circle and find an open seat of someone else that answered positively.
Since you have one less chair then there are people in the group, and you found an opening quickly, there should be one person left in the center. This person then gets to pick the topic. It's a good idea to set some boundaries about appropriate topics that can be used in this game.
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Activities
by Navajo Trails Summer Camp
Friday, January 28, 2011Materials:
cake pan with edges
milk
food coloring
liquid dishwashing detergent
1. Pour milk into the cake pan until the bottom is covered.
2. Sprinkle several drops of food coloring on the milk.
3. Add a few drops of dishwashing detergent in the centers of the largest drops of coloring.
4. Watch the resulting eruption of colors.
5. If erupting slows down, try adding more food coloring and then more detergent. If the experiment will not work after awhile, begin again from clean milk and new drops of color and detergent.
Variations:
Use a clear baking pan. Have someone hold the experiment above eye level and watch the erupting colors from the bottom of the pan.
Milk contains water and fat. These two substances do not mix. Even though the milk looks like one substance, it is really separate water and fat. Detergent is a substance that will mix with water or fat. When detergent is dropped into milk, one end of the detergent molecule attaches to fat in the milk and the other end of the detergent molecule attaches to the water which causes a boiling effect.
