Photo Finish

I often have participants introduce themselves by showing the group something they have in their pockets, packs or purses but recently I saw a neat twist on this.

When you have a roomful of adults you are bound to have photos in wallets. Hand out a short list for a scavenger hunt of photos. Have everyone mill around sharing the photos and see how many they can find and tick off. Each photo should come from a different person.

It is up to you which photos you put in the list. Try to reflect the group you are working with.
Here are a few ideas to get you started.

1) a happy family
2) a really young baby
3) a curly headed toddler
4) a car
5) a vacation spot
6) a school photo
7) a grandmother or grandfather
8) a big dog
9) a small dog
10) a pet other than a dog
11) a house
12) a flower or tree

Just make up any list you want and see how many of them your group collectively keeps in their wallets.

This is a lively way to get people talking and sharing.

The F Word

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS
OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

Now count the F's is that sentence. Count them ONLY ONCE.
Do not go back and count them again. Then see below:


There are 6 F's in the sentence.
How many did you count?

How I Would Use This

For fun I could turn it into an intelligence test.

Another idea is to use it to illustrate how often we make assumptions. The brain assumed that the V sounds were just that, V's and not F's. We make hundreds of assumptions daily, some are harmless like this little activity, but some are not harmless at all.