Trainers’ Toolkit – Charades

	Exercise nr 14: Charades
Duration	15-20 min
Type of activity	Social / Body / Emotional / Cognitive
The goal of the exercise	To integrate the group and activate body and imagination, that will help to bring well-being and humor into the group
Group size	10 – 15 participants
Hashtags	#engagement #warmup #icebreaker #movement #creativity
Materials and tools necessary for the activities	Electronic devices with access to quality camera
Exercise agenda	Suggest a well-known charades game when you want to bring some good energy and fun into your workshop. This game allows the group to move around a bit and usually generates a lot of laughter and good energy. At the beginning of the game, set the time you plan with the group. Decide with the participants what category the charades will be about, such as movies, books’ titles, or Disney characters. One person shows in front of the camera using their body language. Without words, you can use single sounds (e.g. movie title).The rest of the group guesses. The person who guesses the answer is next: they make up their idea and show it to the others. In the end, ask participants about the level of their energy (you can use hand positions to indicate the range from low to high energy) and how each person feels (you can also use emojis for this purpose). If you work in an app fitted with chat, ask each person to write a short comment in the chat window.
Possible modifications	If you want all the group to get involved in performing charades, suggest that everyone prepare an idea for charades. Then ask participants to show their charade one by one, regardless of who has guessed the other person’s idea before. The person who guesses the idea gets one point. At the end of the game, count up the points and announce who is king or queen of the game. Another possible modification of this game is for one person to develop an idea for a charade that someone else shows. In this case, the author of the concept does not participate in the guessing part. This could be a good add-on for those who don’t have the camera, or are reluctant to use it! More inspirations: https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-play-charades-on-zoom/ And as a fun additional tool – word generator for charades – https://www.thegamegal.com/word-generator
Credits	Compiled by Fundacja Culture Shock for TRENDSS – Transnational Roadmap for Educators in Digital Soft Skills (https://trendss.eu/)Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Co-funded by the Erasmus+Programme of the European Union