Required: lipstick, small washable grease pencil or markers
Players: small to large groups
Depending on the number of participants, you may want to pick a few helpers for this icebreaker game.
The helpers will all have a small tube of lipstick in their pocket or hidden in their hands before the game starts. They can pretend at the last minute that they decide to join in the game; this helps them to find the person that they would like to stand next to.
Have all participants line up in a straight line, side by side, instruct them that they have to look forward and they can’t turn their heads. Tell them that you’re playing the “Cheeky-Cheeky game” and everyone has to repeat what you do, but must not move.
Give them an example by lightly pinching the persons cheek on the right of you and say “Cheeky-Cheeky”. You should be at the beginning of the line. Note to them that that person has to do the same and then the next person all the way down the line until it reaches the end.
Once demonstrated start out with “Cheeky-Cheeky” but this time behind your back you have lipstick that you put on your fingertips. After you’ve done Cheeky-Cheeky and the movement has gone down the line then do nosey-nosey. After that do chiny-chiny, eary-eary, heady-heady. Each time add more lipstick to your finger tips without them noticing.
In the process the person next to you should end up with lipstick all over his/her face. If you’ve planted helpers in the line, a few other people should end up with lipstick on their faces also.