Get-To-Know-You Activities:

Have You Ever

The person in the middle who is it

begins with the question: "Have
you ever: _____?" The blank is to
be filled in with something that
holds true for the person who is
it. Everyone who the statement
holds true for, must exchange
places with another person. The
person who is it must move to a
spot as well. One person will not
be able to find a spot. He or She
is then it. Repeat game as much
as desired.

Kevin Danielsen

Dice Game

Each number on the dice gets a

question assigned to it. You pass
the dice around and let the
students roll, answering the
question they land on.

Alaina Reck

My Name Is

Go around the group and ask

each young person to state
his/her name and attach an
adjective that not only describes
a dominant characteristic, but
also starts with the same letter of
his name. Write them downand
refer to them by this for the rest
of the evening.

Sharee Galbraith

Who Done It

The teacher passes out an index

card and a writing utensil to
every student. Ask the students
to write down something they
have done.Tell your students to
really think about a fact that
most people don't already know
about them. Next, Collect the
cards, shuffle, and pass them
back out. The students will take
turns reading the card aloud and
guesses whose card they had.
The person must answer with a
simple yes or no. The next
student then reads his/her card
and guesses. The game goes on
until all cards have been guessed.

Clara Schild

Each One Introduce One

Students are randomly selected

to spend a few minutes getting to
know each other and then
introduce their partners to the
class.

Kevin Danielsen

All About Me Cube

Give students a cube and on each

side of the cube they do
something different. For instance,

Tarynn Bickett

Favorite Book. They can share

their cube with the class.

Get to Know You Poem

Each student fills out a Bio-Poem

template and shares it.

Berin Pach

Introduction Speed Dating

The teacher divides the class into

two groups and seats them
across from each other in pairs.
You tell the students that they
are working on a special project
and in order to be successful they
need to work with someone that
they are the most compatible
with. Each student gets a paper
with everyone's name on it to
take notes on. The teacher starts
the timer for 2 minutes. Within
those two minutes the students
must find the person they are the
most compatible with my asking
questions. At the end of two
minutes, they move to the next
chair. At the end, after everyone
has had a chance to talk, they
pick the 3 people they are most
compatible with and they write a
paragraph on each explaining
what they learned about them
and why they are compatible.

Krista Greer

Viewing Party w./ Adobe

Voice

Each student creates their own

video about themselves with
Adobe Voice and you could have
a viewing party the next day

Evan Steemken

Food for Thought

For this game you have students

sit or stand in a circle around the
room. Students will say their
name and a food that matches
the letter of their first name.
Then the next student would go.
They have to introduce
themselves, and they also have
to repeat what I said. This will
continue until it gets to the last
student. The last student will
have to go around the whole
circle and repeat everyones
name and matching food

Amanda Erickson

People Bingo

Each student gets a paper with a

5 by 5 grid (25 total boxes) on it;
each box contains one of the
statements below. As the
students move around the room,
they talk to their peers to try and
complete their card. If one of the
items listed on the bingo card
relates to the person they are
talking with, they sign their name

Courtany Sykora

in that box. Depending on the

size of the group, the students
could try to get a blackout bingo
(fill all the boxes) or get a regular
bingo (five in a row).

Pop Quiz

Before the activity write a series

of getting-to-know-you questions
on some small slips of paper. Be
sure to only write one question
on each slip but you can repeat
some of the questions depending
on the number of students. Next,
fold up the slips and place them
each inside a different balloon
and then blow up all the balloons.
Give each student a balloon and
then let students take turns
popping their balloons and
answering the questions inside.

Jessica Carr

Passing Notes

To begin this activity you have

students partner up someone in
the class. You then explain the
rules that you will take turns
passing a note back and forth
writing down information about
yourself. The catch is that you
can't ask the other person any
questions and you can't talk.
Students get to know each other
well by writing down information
about themselves and the feeding
off of it. Once time has been
spent on this you have each
student quickly introduce
themselves to the entire class.

Mikaela Kavanaugh

Student Dictionary

The teacher will have five

questions on the board. (For
example: Do you have pets?)
Then the students will think of
five additional questions that they
would like to ask someone. Then
the teacher will pair them up, and
they will have 15 minutes to ask
their five additional questions to
the student who they are working
with and vice versa. At the end of
the 15 minutes, the teacher will
have the person who asked the
questions share the answers they
received about their new friend to
the class. Then the other student
will share the information they
learned about the other student
to the class.

Hannah LaFollette

Candy Introductions

You need candy with five different

colors or candy types. You can

Krysta Becker

keep the candy in the bag or put

it in a bowl and pass it around
the room to your students.
Instruct them to take 1-5 pieces
and don't eat them yet!
If they took a red piece they have
to tell about their favorite
hobbies, green- favorite place on
earth, blue- favorite memory,
yellow- dream job, and orange is
the wildcard where they can tell
about anything.

The Favorites

You first start by finding someone

who is wearing the same color,
then ask a variety of questions
and finding someone who has the
same answer as you, such as
favorite food, favorite book,
favorite color, favorite class,
favorite tv show, etc

Amanda Gums

Toilet Paper Game

As the students walk in tell them

to take a piece of toilet paper,
don't specify how much they
should take. When they get to
their seat tell them that for each
square they took, they have to
share one fact about themselves.

Ryan Schlesser

2 Truths and a Lie

Kayla Stolt

Students tell 2
truths and 1 lie about
themselves.

The other
students guess which is
the lie.

All About Me Collage

Ask students to bring pictures of

themselves or their family from
home. Then, give students
numerous magazines and invite
them to cut out pictures, words
or anything else that they think is
something that would describe
them as a person. They can use
these pictures or words from
magazines to glue or tape to a
sheet of construction paper (color
of their choice). Once their
college is created, have each
student share to the class what
elements they chose and why

enburg

Victoria Sopko

they chose the things that they

did. Have the students share why
these elements were used to
describe them. The teacher can
then hang the collages around
the room, or send the projects
home and invite the students to
show it to their family.

Partner Tell

Facebook All About Me Sheet

Each student gets assigned

someone in the class in which
they know nothing about. The
students then ask a series of
questions in order to get a
background information. They will
then either tell the class or if you
choose they can do a poster on
their new friend.
You hand out a "Facebook All
About Me" sheet to each student;
it has colors and categories you
would find on the real social
media site. There are areas for
name, age, birthday, likes,
dislikes (a like column with a
thumb up and a dislike column
with a thumb down - then a list
of items- the student writes in
one like and one dislike for each
item), questions like, "If you
could travel to one place in the
world, where would it be and
why?", etc. Once all sheets are
complete, you could either
display them on a bulletin board
allowing each student to present
theirs at some point throughout
the first week of school, or give
each student 5 minutes to
present their "Facebook page" to
the class.

Amanda Gerber

Jennifer Lease

Tangled Web

The object of the game is to

make a giant spider web with
yarn. The teacher starts first and
says their name and something
about themselves. Then you toss
the ball of yarn to a student, this
goes on until everyone is done.
When everyone is done stand up
and talk about the web, you can
talk about how you all had to
work together to make a web,
and if someone dropped their
part of the web it would ruin their
web.

Kaylee Grayson

M&M Game

The teacher will have a big poster

Cassandra Schroeder

with what question each M&M

color represents for instance,
Redsomething about well.
Give each student a certain
number of M&Ms or Skittles and
tell them to not eat any till after
the activity. Have one student at
a time pick a color and answer
the question.

Stringing Conversation
Together

Cut string or yarn into pieces of

different lengths. Each piece
should have a matching piece of
the same length. There should be
enough pieces so that each
student will have one. Then give
each student one piece of string,
and challenge each student to
find the other student who has a
string of the same length. After
students find their matches, they
can take turns introducing
themselves to one another

Destinni Girton

All About Me Index Cards

For this activity students will

receive a stack of note cards that
are labeled with different things
they need to put on their note
cards about them. These topics
will include name, interests,
goals, favorites, family, where
they want to go to college
someday, and what they want to
be when they grow up. On each
of these index cards they can
write a description or they can
draw pictures. When each
student is done writing on their
index cards they will cut slits in
their note cards to figure out how
to build an index card house or
they can build it however they
want! When students have
finished their index card house
they will share all of their index
cards with their neighbor and one
of their index cards with the
class.

Heather Zins

Whats On Your Mind?

The teacher has sheets of paper

with student's heads. The sheet
of paper just has the outline of
the head, with no faces on it, so
the student can express what is
on their mind in that space. Each
student would then either draw,
write or even cut pictures out of
the newspaper/magazine of what
is on their mind. So if the student
loves to plays sports, they could
draw a picture of that

Vickie David

Where Do You Stand?

Draw a line with chalk or

otherwise mark out a line down
the center of your space. All the
children start by standing on the
line. Now call out opposites and
point in one direction for each.
Children make their choice and
run to the correct side of the line.
Once the students make a choice,
the teacher can use the
responses as a discussion to get
students to know one another
more. Try to think up some
opposites that will get all the
children on one side of the line

Alison Feickert

Question Ball

Start with a beach ball and write

questions on it such as "Where
are you from?" "Do you have any
siblings" and "What's your
favorite color?" Cover the beach
ball as much as possible. The
students will then get in a circle
and pass the beach ball around to
each other. When a student
catches it, they will answer the
question that their right thumb is
touching. Once they have
answered the question, that
student will pass the ball to
someone else in the group.

Liz Bitterman