Once the receiver (of your smile) makes eye contact with you and smiles back, explain that you will then start to gently jump up and down in place to indicate that the first smile has been sent.
(people smiling and jumping in Super Smile group game) How To Play Narrativeīegin by asking your group to form a circle, and include yourself, because this super smile group game is too fun to stand away from.Įxplain that in a few moments, you will start time on a stopwatch (optional) and then immediately pull a huge smile on your face, making eye contact with someone on the other side of the circle.
Let’s see if we can go through this pattern quicker, see what happens. Yeah, just to say we got forty-five seconds. Ready? On your mark, I’m going to start, get set, go. So I’ll ask if someone in the group could actually time this for us. The goal here though is that everyone’s included and we send it from my start to the last person as fast as we can. Otherwise just waiting for that but again trying to send it around. If you want to bring the Dudley face go for it. I’ll ask you to just hold your face however you want. So how do we go from not smiling to smiling as quick as you can and granted a lot of us are already smiling in that regard and jumping. (people smiling and jumping in Super Smile group game)Īre we all smiling? Your calves burning a little bit? You can relax.Īnd as this gets established the goal here is to get that smile sent around the group as fast as possible. Once Britney smiles I’m jumping like this, so Britney then will send your smile to someone else. This also takes a little bit of self-control because I’m going to smile at Britney, the first thing that Britney does is smiles. Yeah, so in here… you think, you’re like I’m so happy, they’re smiling at me. You might have to do both, whatever, but I’m going to send a smile to Britney, right? So I’m looking up and I smile at Britney and I’m waiting until Britney smiles. You can be cheesy, you can be authentic, whatever it might be. Once they smile I start jumping, and I’ll continue jumping until the entire group is smiling and jumping.īecause what will happen here is let’s say I send a smile to Britney, right? So I’m going to smile, and you can cheese up your smile. The way that I can acknowledge that they’ve acknowledged the smile that I’m sending is they’ll smile.
I’m simply going to look at someone, I’m not going to call their name or anything. What’s going to happen is I’m going to start and we’re going to try to create a pattern where everyone is involved and for now we’re just going to establish that pattern as we go, and more so it’s about being inclusive. Now certainly there’s moments where someone may not smile back at you or you may not smile back at them, but generally most people are going to smile back, and that’s what this activity is about. That moment that someone smiles at you, often times what do you do? Video Transcript for Super Smile Group GameĪ smile is as contagious as a yawn.