Exercise Get to know each other BINGO!

Actors all participants

Place / required space

An open space The participants need to be able to walk around

Material - A bingo card and a pen for each participant

Required time 15-30 minutes

Implementation / characteristics

This exercise is done after the participants had an exercise lo learn each other’s names. The purpose of this exercise is to get more acquainted to each other (hobby’s, family, school, ...).

Preparation Hand out the bingo cards and pens and explain the exercise.

Instructions Every participant has a bingo card with following features:

Plays an instrument

Likes to walk in the rain

Has a pet

Speaks more than one language

Likes to cook

Has been on television

Is an only child

does a lot of sport

has his/her ears pierced

has more than two brothers or sisters

has camped in a tent

can roll the R

can whistle on his/her fingers

sleeps past 10 o’ clock on a Saturday

has never broken anything

knows how to play monopoly

is born in another country than Belgium

doesn’t like pineapple

likes to go to school

has won a contest

has a girl/boyfriend

likes to eat spaghetti

Is going on a holiday this year

Can bake a cake

Likes to watch tv

The participants walk around in the room and have to find other participants with these

features by asking around. If you find someone with one of the features you ask for his/her

autograph. You have to collect an autograph for each feature and you can’t have the

same autograph more than twice.

The first participant with a “full card” yells BINGO and wins.

After the exercise the group gathers in a circle and talks about the features.

Observation tasks

The trainers can use this exercise to form a first impression of the group.

What is the background of the participants?

Who takes which position in the group?

Moderation and interventions

This is an exercise to get to know each other and to make the participants curious about each other. The interventions are done by the trainers after the exercise.

Do you have the feeling you know more about the other participants?

Do you want to know more after this exercise (the participants can ask each other questions)

How was it to do this exercise. Did you feel comfortable to ask these questions to strangers?

Evaluation ?

Target This is an exercise to get to know each other and to make the participants curious about one another.