Christmas toolkitBY HYPER ISLAND

Take some time to get to know a new angle of each other and work up some energyINGREDIENTS: • Pencils• Three small pieces of paper per participant (post-its are perfect)• 3 people or more, works very well with large groups and for all agesTime: minimum 30 min

STEP 1: QUESTIONSEach participant writes down three questions, one per piece of paper. For example: What’s the hardest you’ve ever laughed? What is the worst present someone ever gave you? Who do you really look up to?

STEP 2: MINGLEOnce everyone has written their questions, you all begin to mingle. Participants meet up one-to-one and ask each other one of the three questions they are holding.

After the exchange of question-answer has taken place you hand over the paper with the question to the answerer. In each one-to-one meeting, participants will swap one question each.In the next one-to one meeting participants can ask a questions they have written themselves, or a question they got from a previous exchange.

Continue the mingle for around 15 minutes and try and get all the participants to ask questions to each other.

3 Question Mingle

Play with candy and get to know your family and friendsINGREDIENTS: • Differentcoloredcandy,enoughforabout5piecesofcandyperperson.• 2 participants or more• A pen and piece of paper• A space that allows the group to walk aroundTime: 30-60 min

STEP 1: CANDYGiveallparticipantsfivepiecesofdifferentcoloredcandyeach.

STEP 2: THE STORIESAssociatedifferentcoloredcandywithdifferenttypesofstories.Itisuptoyoutosetthetoneoftheexercise.Doyouwantlaughter-goformorehumorousdefinitions.For a merry holiday feeling, go for topics relating to the holidays. For example:Red = a funny short story about yourselfGreen = a nice Christmas memoryYellow = a story of an adventure you have been onBlue = a story about something you have learned this yearOrange = something else entirely

STEP 3: MINGLEAll participants walk around the room and meet 1-to-1 with each other. During each meeting every participant chooses a candy and shares a story based on the color (and may then eat the candy). The mingle continues until all participants have consu-med all their candies.

Sweet Stories

This charade inspired game is great to play when you need to have a laugh. It works for all agesINGREDIENTS: • A space that allows the group to move around• 4 people or more

STEP 1: PAIR UP AND THINKAll participants divide into pairs. Each participant should now think about three things that are important for him or her, in silence.

STEP 2: ACT OUTInsilence,usingpantomimegesturesonly,thefirstparticipantactoutthethreeim-portantthingstotheirpartner.Thepartnerwatchingtriestofigureoutwhatimportantthingsthefirstpersonistryingtoexpres

STEP 3: SHAREEach participant again, using pantomime only, shares his or her three important things to the rest of the group. Than their partner explains to the rest of the group what they think their partner is acting out. It is fun to hear what each member of the pair understood the three items to be!

Silent introductions

This charade inspired game is great to play when you need to have a laugh. It works for all agesINGREDIENTS: • A space to play• 5 people or more

Stand in a large circle with some space between the participants. One person gets into the middle of the circle. When the game begins, the person in the middle walks to one participant, “the victim”, in the circle and says: “I love you, honey, won’t you give me a smile?”

The chosen “victim” is to respond, “I love you too, but I’m not allowed to smile,” without smiling.

It can be said twice to the same person in the same way. Guess what happens? They smile! The one smiling then joins the person in the centre in tempting others to smile. When everyone has been victims and you have stopped laughing you can start over, go on to another fun play or go have a Christmas Fika.

I love you honey

Infuse some energy and laughter after you have had too much to eatINGREDIENTS: • A space to play• 6 people or more

STEP 1: CREATE A HUMAN KNOTCreate a tight circle of all participants, standing shoulder to shoulder. Everyone grabs twootherhandsfromtwodifferentpeopleinthecircle,butnotthenearestneigh-bours’.

STEP 2: SOLVE THE KNOTNow you should try to untangle the knot so that you are standing in a round circle. Here’s the big challenge, you can not let go of each other’s hands while you are un-tangling.

STEP 3: DO IT AGAINWas it fun? Was it hard? Try and do it again. Maybe this time with closed eyes. Don’t sneak peak!

The Christmas Knot