Name Jive

Sit everyone in a circle. Leaders have a special role to play in this game, so make sure they participate too! The goal of this game is to learn everyone's name by making up a silly rhyme. Following around the circle, each girl has a chance to make up a silly rhyme about herself. Once she's said her rhyme, everyone repeats it. Meanwhile the leaders must quickly think up a second line to their verse. Here is an example: Girl 1: "Bouncy Becky plays ball." Everyone: "Bouncy Becky plays ball." Leader: (totally spontaneously) "She plays it in the spring and fall!" Everyone: "She plays it in the spring and fall!" Girl 2: "Kooky Carrie kicks the couch." Everyone: "Kooky Carrie kicks the couch." Leader: "She holds her toe and then says OUCH!" Everyone: "She holds her toe and then says OUCH!"

Proceed around the circle in this fashion. Once everyone has had a chance to make up a rhyme for themselves, go around the circle again as fast as possible, trying to remember both parts of everyone's rhyme along the way. This is a GREAT game! In fact, this is the ONLY icebreaker game I've played where I've actually remembered a good portion of the girls' names afterwards!


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