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• Palm Tree Sway: Let your arms float overhead. Link your thumbs together and sway from side to side in the tropical breeze.
• Hula Dance: Make a figure B movement with your hips. Let your arms move gracefully in front of you.
• Coconut Roll: Let your head drop forward. Roll your head from side to side with your chin down.
• Whale’s Breath: Inhale deeply through your nose. Blow the air out through your mouth.
• Lemonade Breath: Round your lips and make an opening in the middle. Suck air in through the hole as though you were drinking through a straw. Let the air out gently through your nose.
• Turtle Stretch: Lift your shoulders up to your ears. Imagine hiding your head inside a turtle shell. Stretch your neck out slowly and look around.
• Flipper Flop: Bend your e/bows with your hands in front of you. Bounce your elbows against your ribs and make some dolphin sounds.
• Picking Bananas: Stretch as though you were picking fruit from a tree. As you reach up with one hand, let the opposite heel lift off the ground.
• Surfer’s Shake: Imagine that you have just come out of the ocean. Shake the water off your hands and feet. Now dry off your back with a beach towel.

Step-By-Step Instructions

• Stand comfortably with your arms relaxed at your sides. Check to be sure that your knees are relaxed.
• We will use the letters of the alphabet to help us move in ways that are as easy as ABC. I will call out letters of the alphabet along with a movement that begins with that let­ter.
• For example, when I call out "Arching" we will link our thumbs, raise our arms overhead, and arch back. When I call out "Bending" we will reach forward toward the floor.
• We will continue through the alphabet, stretching with each letter:

• Arching
• Bending
• Climbing
• Dancing
• Energizing
• Flowing
• Growing
• Hugging
• Ice skating
• Jumping
• Kicking
• Leaping
• Moving
• Nodding
• Opening
• Praying
• Quivering
• Running
• Swimming
• Twisting
• Uplifting
• Vibrating
• Walking
• eXercising
• Yawning
• Zigzagging

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• Go around the group and for each successive alphabet letter, let each person in turn choose a movement that stretches a body part that begins with their letter. Other participants in the group imitate the movement.
• Compile a list of suggestions for each letter as you go so people have new ideas for future reference.
• Choose a few letter stretches related to the group or topic and intersperse these as mnemonics to memorably demonstrate and reinforce key points during a longer All Togetherhop.
• Have one person volunteer to "spell" a key word with movements for the rest of the group to guess. (e.g. words such as relax, smile, laugh, play) Or spell the name of a team, a product, or a place that is familiar to that particular group of people.

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• First pair people up and have all practice arranging themselves side-by-side, back-to-back, and face-to-face with their partner.
• Next, explain that they are now going to have to say something specific to their partner (and different each time) with each command (practice each once):

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• Have all partners practice arranging themselves side-by-side when they hear the command "Blue!", back-to-back when they hear the command "Green!", and face-to-face when they hear the command "White". Start slow, then pick up the pace in which you give your commands.
• When ready, invite a group member to propose an additional color and associated action. Have all practice that once, then play again giving 4 commands at random.
• Continue to add new colors and commands one at at time until it's no longer possible for your group!

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• Divide the group into teams from two to five people.
• Pass out a sheet of newspaper to each person and tell them to roll it into a tight ball.
• Have the participants stand at the far end of a room with a target of some kind on the other side of the room (e.g., a bag).
• The object of this game is for each team to hit their target rolling their balls. Each time you do so you get 1 point.
• Whoever has the most points after a set amount of time (e.g., 2 minutes) wins a round of applause from all.

Tips

• 1 minute: A Team - Batman - Charlie's Angels - Dr Who - Hawaii 50 - Pink Panther - Ticking Countdown
• 3 minutes: Mission Impossible

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• All players in a circle. One player is the Samurai - she starts by lifting her sword, yelling "Ya!"
• She keeps her sword up in the air, and her 2 neighbors "slaughter" her, by swinging their swords into her sides, again yelling "Ya!" enthusiastically.
• When the neighbors retract their swords, the Samurai lowers her sword; while doing this she makes eye contact with another player, when then becomes Samurai, and everything starts all over again.
• Start slowly, and then increase the tempo.

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• All of the players standing or sitting in a circle (max 15 people per circle).
• One person starts as the viking by putting their fingers at their side of their head like horns on their hat. This viking passes the role of being a viking by pointing their horns at someone while making eye contact.
• If you are pointed at, you become a viking (horns and all) and the person on the right has to start paddling to the right and the person on the left has to start paddling on the left.
• The last person of the threesome to assume their position is out and needs to move backward while those still in the game move forward to form a tight circle again.
• Everybody except the viking and her two rowers must slap their legs during the game in a constant rhythm (this includes those who are out).
• The game ends when you are down to 3 survivors only.

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• Pair people up, give 1 feather to each pair, and invite them to decide who will be the ninja (A) and who will be the the feather dropper (B).
• Round #1: B takes the feather and drops it from as high up as they can. A (the ninja) then tries to catch it on his or her palm. Repeat this process a pre-defined numbers of time, e.g., 3 times, and then switch roles.
• Important: You get 1 point each time you successfully catch a feather. "Grabbing" one however is not allowed. The only way to "catch it" is to let it land on you.
• After both players have completed round one it’s time to level up.
• Round #2: Whoever plays ninja now has to catch the feather on the top of his or her foot.
• Round #3: This time the ninja has to catch the feather on his or her forehead. (This is easier if you can drop the feather from higher up.)
• Round #4: Drop 2 or 3 feathers and the ninja now has to catch them all.
• Whoever has the most point at the end of the game wins a round of applause.

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• This is a great game to learn names. Participants will need to stand in a circle and be able to put both hands in the middle. You can have up to about 10 people per circle but not more.
• Start by calling your own name and putting one hand in the middle. The person on your left (going clockwise) can either call their own name or yours again, and so on. Whoever just got named must put 1 hand on top of the hand pile. If someone already has both hands in the middle, then the hand that's at the bottom gets to go on top.
• Try to pick up speed.

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• Everyone forms a large circle with the facilitator in the center.
• The facilitator explains that the person in the middle of the circle must share out loud an attribute, characteristic, quirk, etc. For example, "I have blue eyes."
• The people in the circle must move from their spot if they share the same characteristic and trade places with another participant.
• The goal is for the person in the center to find someone else’s spot so that a different person is in the center.
• A person may not trade places with someone directly to the right or left.

• This is not as fun or dynamic, but it still works.
• Start by asking all to turn their camera off and then only turn them on if and when what is said applies to them.
• "It" gets to chose who the next "It" is.

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From shortest to tallest

• According to the number of letters are in your first name
• According to your height, or the size of your ears, hair, hand, shoes...

• Where you were born.
• Where you live.

• How many siblings, cousins, pairs of shoes, etc. you have.
• How many different jobs you've had in your life so far.

• By day and month of your birth date.
• By the number of years playing a musical instrument (any instrument is valid, and it doesn't matter how well you play.)

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• Place all the balloons on one end of your play space.
• Hold 1 balloon between your legs, and another one on each side of your body between your arms and your hips.
• The goal is to carry all the balloons to the other end of the play space.
• Only the balloon that is being carried between the legs can be dropped.

• Choose the challenge that sounds most fun to you: Partners must run holding a balloon between their heads, belly buttons, hips, knees, or ankles.
• Each time someone reaches the finish line, they must go back to the end of the queue of their group.
• If the balloon falls while racing, then they must stop and go back with it to the starting line.
• The use of hands is forbidden.

Tips

• 1 minute: A Team - Batman - Charlie's Angels - Dr Who - Hawaii 50 - Pink Panther - Ticking Countdown
• 3 minutes: Mission Impossible

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• All in a circle. "It" goes in the middle holding the party balloon, and throws it in the air as s/he calls someone else.
• That person must catch the balloon before it touches the floor, as "It" takes his or her place in the circle.
• And so on.

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• Give a playing card at random to each participant.
• Ask everyone to shuffle (mill around), then arbitrarily cut into two equal packs (groups) and ask them to arrange themselves into neat piles (lines) so that the head of one line faces the head of the second.
• First person in each line shows their cards. The person with the higher card wins and takes the other with him or her back to the end of his or her team line.
• Continue until you get a war (both cards the same). At that point, the next three people on either side come forward and reveal their cards. The higher card gets to take all the players to the end of the line.

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• 1 pre-printed sheet with a number on it per participant.
• This pre-printed sheet for the facilitator.

Step-By-Step Instructions

• Give 1 sheet with a number on it to each participant and create 1 or more teams of up to 10 people in each.
• Their job is to line up as a team according the numbers you keep giving them.
• Give yourself a few seconds to plan what those numbers are going to be before you start the game, depending on how many participants you have.
• For example, if you have 4 participants and you gave them numbers 0, 1, 2, and 3, then you could call out 3210, 1230, 2310, 3120, etc.

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• Create 2 or more teams, both lined up side by side.
• This is a relay race. The person at the top of each line must pass the balloon to the person standing behind over his or her head.
• The next person must then pass the balloon to the one behind under his or her own legs, and so on.
• When the balloon reaches the end of the line, that person must runs to the top of the line and the game continues.
• The race ends when the person who started at the top of any line comes back there again.

Tips

• 1 minute: A Team - Batman - Charlie's Angels - Dr Who - Hawaii 50 - Pink Panther - Ticking Countdown
• 3 minutes: Mission Impossible

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• 1 table, 1 feather per participant. (You can get them in bags of 300 to 500 in craft stores or online.)
• Several straws.

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• With a partner, or between competing teams with people taking turns, race your feather with someone else on a table by blowing on it with a straw. No touching!
• Every time your feather falls off the table you must go back to the starting point.

Tips

• 1 minute: A Team - Batman - Charlie's Angels - Dr Who - Hawaii 50 - Pink Panther - Ticking Countdown
• 3 minutes: Mission Impossible

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• Create 2 or more teams. Give each person a party balloon, and ask each team to create a line.
• This is a relay race! On Go!, the person at the head of each line runs to a designated spot where there is a chair, sits on their balloon until it pops, and then runs back and tag the next person who does the same thing again, and so on.
• The first team to pop all of their balloons wins!
• You can then allow for the game to continue until all have popped their balloon, or have whoever has not yet popped their balloon pair up and pop the remaining balloons between their bellies..

Tips

• 1 minute: A Team - Batman - Charlie's Angels - Dr Who - Hawaii 50 - Pink Panther - Ticking Countdown
• 3 minutes: Mission Impossible

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• Invite all to write three little known facts about themselves on a piece of paper (without writting their name!), then crumple the paper up into a "snowball".
• When all are ready, have a one-minute snowball fight.
• At the end of the time when the facilitator yells "freeze", everyone grabs the closest snowball and has to try to find the person who wrote it, by walking around and interviewing people.

• Family
• Experiences
• Likes/Dislikes
• Random/Weird
• Skills
• Wishes/Dreams

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• To start the game first decide and all agree on where the boundaries are, because everybody has to stay inside of them. Then spread out so there is ample running room inside of the boundaries.
• As soon as the leader says "start!", everybody runs after everybody else, tagging anybody.
• If you get tagged, you're frozen. Just before you freeze, you kneel or get on one knee, or sit down, and remain there until the game is over (which won't be very long.)
• If two people tag each other at the same time, they both have to go down (kneel or sit.)
• The last person standing is the winner, and the one who gets to start the next round.
• If the tagging takes too long simply make the boundaries smaller.

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• When a number and a body part is called out, the participants must form groups that contain that number of people with the mentioned body parts touching. For example: 4 feet.
• The numbers should be called out quickly, and the participants must move rapidly to form their groups.
• If a person cannot find a group, then s/he is responsible for calling out the next number.

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• Walk around the space.
• To begin with and always being aware of who is around you, slowly go down to the floor to the count of 10, then rise back up to the count of 10.
• Repeat but to the count of 9, then 8, then 7, etc.

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