This past weekend I had the joy of attending our annual mission ladies’retreat. The weekend away with our fellow co-workers for a time of praising the Lord, prayer, teaching from the Word and fellowship is always refreshing and uplifting.
Hubby stayed home with our new co-workers and he and Dad O. watched all of the kids. Thanks honey!!!
I brought a couple of games to play with the group for the opening night. We just wanted a time of fun and relaxation/decompression and decided to just have a low-key night.
One of the other ladies there shared a game that is a twist on two old ones, but was a huge hit, hilariously funny and one I am sure to use again.
Telephone Pictionary
You know ‘Telephone’and you know ‘Pictionary’the two together are like,… well, like Oreos and milk. Made for each other.
Step one: everyone needs enough pieces of paper equal to number of people playing. We had 16, so we each needed 16 small pieces of paper. Number the pieces
Step two: Choose a topic: such as ‘what I want for my birthday’, a movie or song title, best Christmas present, where I want to go on vacation, ect. We used the first one.
Step three: One sheet #1, each person writes down their answer. Then pass to the left, the entire stack. You look at the top sheet, put it on the back of the stack and then draw what the first sheet said. Pass to left again. Allow 30-45 seconds for each successive stack.
Step four: You now have a picture to look at. Without peeking at any previous sheets, write what you think the drawing is of. Continue passing to the left. When your stack ends with you, you will recognize what you wrote originally, the game is over.
Step five: Read the progression aloud. Some of the transformations will be unbelievable!
I asked for dinner and movie for my birthday wish. What I ended up with was a new husband and a wedding. Sorry honey, I really was looking for a date with you!
Another lady said she wanted a nice dinner out, and ended up with a moving box from U-Haul.
And the one who asked for an i-Pod? She got decapitated. Now really, who would ask for decapitation for their birthday? The roommates of that participant were beginning to feel a bit uneasy about the sleeping arrangements! 
I am always looking for new and fun games for groups of ladies and older kids, so I welcome your suggestions too! One time I was in charge of games for a Valentines party with 15+ couples. It was not as easy as I thought coming up with games for a group that size. All I will say is that group games and Valentines day are NOT good keywords for a Google search.
Sooo, if you know of any other games, icebreakers that have worked well for your groups, I would love to hear about them.
This is the first week for WFMW at it new location, We are That Family. Thanks for taking this on, we all are glad to see WFMW live on!
I love playing games w/ big groups too. One that we love (we have the actual game but it could easily be made up) is Things: laughter in a box. They way you play is a card is drawn from the box and read aloud. (if you are going to do the game DIY style then have everyone write down something and draw from there).
So it could be: Things… that you don’t say to your mother. Things… you want to do before you die. Things… that you have never done but want to. Things… that would make school more interesting…. you get the idea.
So then everyone takes a scrap of paper and writes down their answer to the phrase read – the answers can be true, made up, serious, funny…. So lets say the phrase was Things that would make school more fun. Some possible answers would be: disco lounge in homeroom, NO dress code, no more teachers, etc…
Anyway, all the answers are put together anonymously and read aloud. Then, one by one everyone tries to guess who wrote which answer. Your turn guessing continues until you guess wrong, then its on to the next person. You get a point for each correct guess. The last person standing wins a bonus 6points.
Its so much fun! The answers can get pretty funny and you get to know people’s sense of humor alot! We play this game alot for church events, when we have friends over… whenever we have 5+ people (its not as fun w/ fewer than that). Anyway, hope you like it!