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EVERYTHING YEARBOOK & OTHER GREAT MEMORIES

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Team Building & Leadership

If you want to have a successful yearbook, you need to have a cohesive team. Building the team takes time and effort, but the work will be worth it. Never think that taking the time to build the team is a waste.

Some easy ways to get started building the team:

  • Food Fridays
  • Celebrating Birthdays
  • Attending Camp
  • In School Field Trips
  • Attending workshops
  • Staff Weekly & Monthly Awards
  • Have a puzzle in your room
  • Decorate your room or bulletin boards
  • Compliment Board
  • Secret Santa
  • Oreo Challenge – Great exercise to start off an interview lesson, contact us on how to incorporate
  • Marshmallow Challenge Click on link for instructions
  • Awards Dinner
  • Silly Skittles Game – Pass around a large bag of Skittles and instruct students to take as many or as few as they like, but they have to take at least one, and they can’t eat them. Once everyone has some Skittles, explain that each color represents a prompt they have to share or perform for the class, and they have to do one of the following for every Skittle they took. Red = Share a random fact about yourself. Orange = Tell the class your favorite television show or movie. Yellow = Tell the class your favorite food. Green = Share something you are proud of, or a goal you would like to accomplish. Purple = Make an animal noise.
  • Alphabet Game -Give each student a piece of paper with ALL of the letters of the alphabet on it with room to write a word or few words next to each letter. Tell the students to think of a word or words that starts with each letter that is associated with yearbook. Starting at A, go through the alphabet and at the end the student with the most letters filled in can WIN a prize. When you are complete, you will have the ABCs of Yearbook.

MINUTE TO WIN IT GAMES Needs to complete in 60 seconds

A Bit Dicey
Prior to game start, player places a single popsicle stick in his/her mouth. When the clock starts, player will pick up and vertically stack one die at a time on the stick. Player may not allow dice to rest against their nose or to touch any part of their face. In the event that a die is dropped or falls off of the stick, player may take a replacement die off of the podium and use it in its place. Items -Popsicle stick, Dice

Mega Bubble
When the clock starts, player may grab bubble wand and begin blowing bubbles from behind start line, 15′ from hoop. Player may only use breath to propel bubble. Player may not touch the end hoop. To complete the game, an un-popped bubble must be created behind the foul line, then blown through the end hoop within the 60-second time limit.  Items – 1 hoop, 1 bottle of bubbles

Baby Blockin
1) When clock starts, player places plate on top of head and attempts to stack blocks vertically on plate.
2) Player may not move plate with hands once placed on head.
3) To complete game, all 5 blocks must remain stacked vertically for 3 seconds within the 60-second time limit. Items 
- 5 wooden baby blocks
, Plastic plate

Bite Me
    

The contestant must grab different sized paper bags (ranging from 2 inches (5.1 cm) to 10 inches (25 cm)), in order from largest to smallest, in their mouth and place them on a table without using any body part except the feet for balance. The size of the bags goes down by increments of 2 inches (5.1 cm). Items – Paper sandwich bags

Christmas Ball
Christmas Ball is based on the regular Minute to Win It game called Egg Roll. To play, you must use a gift-wrapped box (about the size of a shirt box) as a fan to move a round Christmas ornament across the floor and into a marked square. The box must not touch the ornament while the game is in play. You can vary the distance that the ornament must be fanned depending on the age of the people playing. Items – Shirt box lid, Round ornament

MORE LINKS TO BOND YOUR STAFF

Fish Philosophy

True Colors & More True Colors

Sweet Success

Ice Breakers

Becoming a Team

Motivating the Staff

Creating Staff Traditions

Staff Recruitment Plan

Room Decorations Warren !
Room Decorations Warren 2
Room Decorations Warren 3
Compliment board Libertyville YB
yearbook puzzle
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