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Here are eight ready-made, easy to use, affordable class reunion icebreakers,
games, certificates, and slide shows, all based upon your graduation year. Save
yourself the time of trying to come up with, plan, and organize activities if
you are helping to plan your class reunion. I wrote the original activities for
my wife's 30th high school reunion and now have similar reunion activities for
every year from 1950 through 2013.
How to receive all of the files within 24 hours via
attachments to e-mails can be found at the website below.
Also previews of all 8 items, described below, are available at:
greenleecd dot com
Actual comments from past customers:
"Thanks for making our job easier!"
Quincy High School (Quincy, IL) 40th class reunion
"These programs were the best money I've ever spent. Thanks for sharing
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Thompson, Manitoba, Canada 20th reunion
"The games were a lot of fun. I've told everyone about them. Thanks for
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Odessa High School (Odessa, TX) 35th class reunion
"Our reunion was this weekend (6/7/08). Your PowerPoints'were a real
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Academy of the Holy Name (Tampa Bay, FL) 20th class reunion
ACTIVITIES DESCRIPTION
I have created three interactive PowerPoint activities, two PowerPoint slide
shows, 18-22 printable certificates (who traveled the farthest, who has been
married the longest, etc.) a music trivia activity (top 40 songs of your
graduation year), and a word scramble (the top 30 TV shows of your graduation
year).
Reunion Elimination and Certificates (icebreaker)
The most popular item - called "Elimination" - is a fun, 30-40 minute
interactive PowerPoint with 18-22 categories. This activity can be used as an icebreaker
(or can be used at any time during the reunion) involving everyone at the
reunion including guests. It is a group activity that works well with any size
reunion large or small. The PowerPoint can easily be shortened by eliminating
some of the categories. (It can be used without a computer if one is not
available.) There are 18-22 corresponding printable certificates that can be
given to the 'winner'.
The next four items are PowerPoints that need a computer and projection
device.
(Hopefully, someone has the needed equipment or you can usually get them from
your school, library, banquet facility, or someone's work.)
Slideshow
This very popular PowerPoint is an
approximately ten minute 60-70, item slide show specific to the year you
graduated. Topics covered on the slide show are: World Events, National News,
Sports Trivia, Top Grossing Movies, Popular TV Shows, Popular Songs, and
Prices. (If someone has the equipment and knowledge, pictures from your class
can be scanned in and added to this slide show.) This can be used as a whole
group (any size) presentation or as a stand-alone where it is set to loop
continuously.
Name that Picture
This fun, entertaining (interactive)
PowerPoint is an approximately 10-20 minute, (depending on which version you
use) 30 item slide show for the decade you graduated. A picture of a person or
object is shown and you see if you can recall who or what it is. (If someone
has the equipment and knowledge, pictures from your class can be scanned in and
added to this slide show.) Version 1 can be used as a whole group (any size)
presentation or as a stand-alone where it is set to loop continuously. Version
2 can be used as a whole group (any size) presentation (using paper and
pencil).
Jeopardy
The next interactive PowerPoint is
based on the game of Jeopardy. Its questions are specific to the year you
graduated and uses many of the same slides as the slideshow above. You can play
it competitively - keeping track of points - individually, or as a team; or
just use the trivia questions to reminisce about the past and what life was
like when you graduated. You would not do both the slide show above and the
Jeopardy game but one or the other.
Top Movies and TV Shows
The fourth PowerPoint is a fun
slide show of the top ten TV shows and top movies from the year you graduated.
Some of the same slides are used in the slideshow above. This can be used as a
whole group (any size) presentation or as a stand-alone where it is set to loop
continuously. You would not do both the slide show above and this one as group
presentations but one as a group and the other as a stand-alone or if you have
a two-day reunion one on the first day and the other the second day.
The next two items are paper and pencil activities.
Match the Song Title to the Artist
This activity involves matching the
top 40 songs (of your graduation year) with the artists who sang them. This can
be done alone, with a partner, or in groups and can be used as an icebreaker
activity.
TV
Word Scramble
The last activity is a word scramble where you unscramble the names of the top
30 TV shows (of your graduation year).
This is usually an individual activity done during someone’s free time.