Play a game of charades using candy conversation hearts as the messages.

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Icebreakers Valentine’s Day
Candy Charades
Play a game of
charades using candy
conversation hearts as
the messages.
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Game Materials
Valentine’s Day candy
conversation hearts
(BE MINE, COOL KID,
LOVER BOY, KISS ME,
MY GAL, etc.)
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Game Objective
Play a game of charades
using candy conversation
hearts as the messages.
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Game Preparation
1. For this game to be
effective, there must be
quite a number of
different conversation
hearts to choose from.
2. Put all the candy in a
bowl.
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Game Play
1. One person from a
group picks out one
of the candies from
the bowl and, using
the regular rules for
Charades, tries to
pantomime the
message.
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2. The person who
correctly guesses the
saying gets to eat
that piece of candy.
3. It’s fun to watch the
participants try to do
phrases like LOVER
BOY, KISS ME, and all
the other crazy
sayings found on the
candy.
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Game Variation
Use Valentine Cards
instead of Valentine candy.
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Game Variation
Use different emotions for
the items to be
pantomimed. The person
who guesses the emotion
gets a point. Emotions that
can be used are: anger, fear,
happy, nervous, bored,
bitter, overwhelmed,
depressed, at peace,
embarrassed, loved, proud,
detached, shocked, hate,
and finally, love
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Game Variation
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In larger groups you
might give each
person one of the
above emotions.
There should be at
least two people that
have each emotion.
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The objective will be
to display the
emotion until you
find the other
members of your
group.
When you think you
have your
partners/group have
a seat
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Continue until all
groups are seated.
Then have each
group strike a pose of
their emotion ending
finally with that of
love.
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What does love look
like?
What actions show
love?
How did you find your
group?
How do we find love?
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