Superstar | Playworks

To learn about one another and improve non-verbal communication

Skills Practiced: Listening and speaking

Have the whole group gather in a contained area.
Put students into pairs.
Demonstrate with volunteer, examples of commonalities that meet the criteria. “I wouldn’t tell my partner that I have brown hair because he/she can see that. I wouldn’t say that I am in elementary school because my partner already knows that. I might say, my favorite food is pizza. What’s yours? Or I might ask, ‘What city were you born in?’

Each group will have 1-2 minutes to find out how many things they have in common that
- they didn’t already know and
- are not visible.
When the time is up, have youth get into a circle, standing next to their partner.
One-by-one each pair will share one thing they have in common.
After sharing their commonality, if others in the group also share that commonality they will put their hands in the air, lunge forward, and yell “SUPERSTAR!”
The next pair then shares their commonality and the process continues until all pairs have shared.

Have youth switch partners and do a round where they have to find out what they have in common around a specific topic (sports, school and so on).
Having youth do a round where they can’t speak and can only charades out ideas is not only fun, but helps them with their non-verbal skills.