Group Size
6 and up
Materials
Chairs for everyone but one person
Where and When
A good game to get to know people or in between sessions when working with a small to middle sized group. A bonus in some instances as no close physical contact is involved.
Procedure
Seat your group in a circle, but make sure that there is one less chair then the number of people on the group. You stand in the middle of the circle to begin the activity.
Explain that you are going to call out a sentence and anyone to whom the sentence applies must get up and change chairs. It is not possible to move to the chair on either side of their present position. Your aim is to occupy one of the vacant places before someone else, so that you are no longer the person in the middle.
Then the person who has been caught in the middle must think up a sentence that will cause others to change chairs, so that he/she can get to a chair first.
Examples of sentences that can be called out
- “All those wearing watches.”
- “All those who had breakfast this morning.”
- “All those with blue eyes.”
When “scrambled eggs” is called out, everyone must change chairs