Games/Activities To Do at a Parent/ Grandparent Social

This sounds fun! I don't have much to offer, but I have one game I played at a training once and I actually really had fun with it even though I am not too big on playing games ;-)
Basically it was a get to know you game and they gave us a really long list of things to look for/ask and then we were timed. We had to go around and find someone that matched the question, and we could only use them for one question. So like her are some of the questions I remember:
- Someone with the same color eyes as you
- Someone who has 2 kids or more
- Someone who has never left the state
and so forth... might be totally cheesey but I had fun with it!

K.
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I like a game similar to what Kim R mentioned, except a Bingo version... You create bingo sheets, and each block has a fact that you have to find someone who it matches. Boxes might have something like "Grew up north of the Red River and West of the Missippi", "Has read Eat, Pray, Love", Enjoys painting as a hobby or profession, Has more than 4 kids or 8 grandkids, Has been skydiving, Worked at the same company for over 20 years, loves scuba diving, etc. Some can be very specific, others are rather general. You can choose to do it simply for fun, or to have a prize at the end for whoever gets Bingo first (I kind of like no prize... then people don't race to get answers, they simply enjoy filling out their sheet).

You can also google Ice Breaker Games for other ideas.

Good luck! Sounds like a lot of fun!

We've played Bunko - I've done this with huge groups of 80 people before. It makes them move about and interact with the people at the tables. You are never sitting by the same people. I'm not sure if you played before - but it's easy, you can teach it fast, the majority of the ladies know how to play it - so I will position at least one experienced player at each table in the beginning. We give out prizes - they could be candy bars. Biggest Loser - Milk Duds, Most Bunco's - Hot Tamales, Most Wins - Pay Day (you get the picture). The winners move up one table, the losers stay put but switch chairs so they parter with some one else. This makes sense if you've played before. All you need is 3 dice per table - 4 players per table, paper and pen - so it's really cheap to start up. This will become a tradition, we did it for 8 years at least once a year with my sunday school class - men and women love it (they guys especially got into it). There is also a cheap fun game, that's easy to play called LCR (stands for Left Center Right) - you can buy it at Bed Bath & Beyond - cost $6 and it's at the checkout counter, and you can set up a few tables of this. These are all church approved! I did them for socials when I was in adult ministry.

I don't know what it is called, but we played a game at work where each person has a sticker or paper taped to his or her back with the name of a famous person, or a fruit, or whatever on it. Then you have to figure out who are what you are by asking other people yes/no questions or by them giving you hints, such as , "I loved your last action movie." or "I heard you were dating so and so." We had a lot of fun and it forces you to interact with others. There is no win or lose - you just figure out who you are.
Another game we played was "Don't Say It." We played for Valentine's day. Everyone started out with a heart (paper). We were not allowed to say valentines or heart or some word like that. If you said it and someone caught you, you had to give them your heart. If you heard someone else say it, you got their heart and any others they had collected. If you are doing it at a church function, it could be any word that people there might use - like "eat" and you could give out pictures of picnic baskets.