Gold Wing Road Riders
Association
A GW University Training Seminar
Fun Activities Guide
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Published by GWRRA, Inc. 21423 North 11th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85027 Fax 602-581-3844 Phone 800-843-9460, 623-581-2500
Version 12.13 January 2012
Introduction
• FUN Activities can be easy as we just
demonstrated
• FUN Activities are essential to
ensuring Chapter, District or Region
participants are having fun
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Introduction
Have you ever been unable to come up
with an idea for a Fun Activity?
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Objective
• To provide Members an overview of the
Fun Activities Guide
• Provide ideas from the guide to assist
with providing/promoting FUN
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Overview
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Getting Acquainted
Awards
Games
Rides
Challenges
Assistance
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Getting Acquainted
• Do you remember when you went to
your very first Monthly Gathering,
Chapter Event or Rally
• Do you remember that feeling like
being the new kid in the class
• How did you get acquainted with other
people around you
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Getting Acquainted
• Getting to Know You
– Have someone in your Chapter designated as the
“Getting to Know You” person
– Each month have them interview someone in the
Chapter to find out a little about their personal
life, how they came to GWRRA
– At the Chapter gathering, have them stand up
with the couple/person interviewed and tell their
story
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Getting Acquainted
• Adjective Game
– Have each guest introduce themselves by using a
nice descriptive adjective which starts with the
first letter of their name
– Example:
• I'm Mysterious Madalena
– Each person, in turn, tells the names of the
people before them and then adds their name
and adjective
– Example
• Rick would say, "This is Mysterious Madalena
and I'm Rowdy Rick."
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Getting Acquainted
• Human Wingo
– Each person receives a
Wingo card and then must
go around the room trying
to find people who match
each square
– Once they have found
someone, have that person
sign or initial the square
W
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With the same
color
motorcycle
Same size
shoe as you
Enrolled in the
Rider Ed
program
Is a veteran
Ride Ed Level
IV Master
With a sidecar
Higher
membership #
than you
Same middle
name
Lower
membership #
than you
Current
Chapter
Couple of the
Year
Former District
Director
Has been to 10
or more Wing
Dings
Has a Trike
Attending their
first rally
Former Girl
Scout
Former District
Couple of the
Year
Your Zodiac
sign
Born in the
same state as
you
Former Chapter Director
Has a
Fifty-dollar bill
Current First
Aid card
Former Boy
Scout
Current CPR
card
Has A
Five-Heart Bar
Has visited
every state
– To make it more fun, and to encourage more
interaction, no one can sign a Wingo card more
than once
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Awards
• When done correctly awards can bring
– Sense of Pride
– Challenge
– FUN - not only for those participating but
for others
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Awards
• First Timer Recognition
– Recognize a person the first time they
attend a Gathering
• Have them tell something about themselves
• If a member brought them, have the member
add a few comments about how they met
– You can present a certificate or ribbon to
the person or couple
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Awards
• Chapter Participation
– Each year a participation pin and/or year bar is
awarded to members who have accumulated
enough points throughout the year
– To receive the award, the member must
accumulate 30 points or more
– Members will accumulate points according to the
following:
• Attending Monthly Gatherings or Chapter
functions, charity events or benefits (poker
run, bike-a-thon, etc.), Chapter weekend trip,
each Traveling Plaque attempt
– Chapter determines appropriate award
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Awards
• High Mileage
– Can be done monthly, quarterly or
annually
– Eligibility:
• CD, ACD or Ride Educator must log the
starting and ending odometer readings
• One determination to be made is whether the
miles will be accumulated through a Chapter
activity or all miles accumulated
– Chapter determines appropriate award
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Awards
• Humor Award
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Award for something funny
Presented at the Monthly Gatherings
It is given in good spirit
Ideas for Humor Awards
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I Dropped It
Whiner
Sloppy
U-Turn
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Games
• Add a lot of FUN to Chapter
Gatherings, functions or events
• Broken down in individual or couples
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Games
• Smartie Sucker
– Need
• Small bowls (2 per player)
• Straws
• Smarties type candy, 1-2 bags
– Fill several small bowls with Smarties
– Place an empty bowl next to the filled one
– Give each player a straw
– Each player has 60 seconds to move as many
Smarties from one bowl to the other using the
straw
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Games
• Taboo Words
– Need
• Clothes Pins
• Index Cards
– Select 5 or 6 Taboo Words
– On index cards, write all of the Taboo words +
attach 5 clothespins
– Hand person each a card with the clothespins
– Explain the rules
– Clip the clothespins to their clothes in sight
– Anyone caught saying one of the words losses a
clothespins. At the end of the game, the person
who has collected the most clothespins is the
winner
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Games
• Find Your Partner
– Need
• A blindfold
• Blindfold one of the women
– Have men sit in a line of chairs
– Have each woman, one at a time, walk in front of
the men feeling their faces only to see if they can
guess which one is their husband
– Once she thinks she knows, have her stand in
front of that man and take her blindfold off to see
if she is right
– Add a twist to the game, pull out one or two of the
men and add a couple of other women
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Rides
• One of the main reasons we join
GWRAA is to ride
• Rides need to be different and maybe
challenging
• Rides need to be different to promote
FUN
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Rides
• Punch Card Ride
– Need
• Copies of the grid, (below), hole-puncher, and
3x5 index cards
– Each rider & co-rider receives an index card
– At each stop, punch a hole in each persons card
– At last stop, place grid
over all cards & total all
points
– High Score Wins
– Chapter determines prize
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Rides
• Progressive Dinner
– Option 1: Chapter Participants volunteer to
prepare part of the menu and serve it at their
home
– Option 2: Chapter Participants volunteer to
identify restaurants or other food establishments
to have four separate courses
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Rides
• Scavenger Hunt
– Meet at predetermined time and location
– Break up in groups of 5 to 7 depending on
the number of Chapter Participants
– Provide item list of 5 to 10
– Be creative on the items to obtain.
Business cards, menus, cup from a
restaurant, etc., but ensure the places you
pick are spread apart by distance
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Challenges
• Used at the Chapter, District or Region
level
• Promote Chapter team work
• Real FUN!!!!!!!
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Challenges
• Cracker Relay Race
– Line up each group
– Hand out three soda crackers to each participant
in each group
– The first person on the team chews the 3
crackers and whistle when they can
– Each participant does the same in order until all
are complete
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Challenges
• Over Under Relay
– Person at the front of each line has a balloon
– Balloon is passed through the first person’s legs
to the second person behind the first
– Second person then passes the balloon over their
head. The game continues as every player
passes under-over-under-over, etc.
– When the balloon gets to the back of the line,
then the last person must run to the front of the
line with the balloon and the game starts again
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Assistance
• GWRRA needs your assistance!
• Do you have a FUN Activity
• Send your ideas to the Membership
Enhancement Directors
• Submitted ideas will be reviewed for
inclusion in the Fun Activities Guide
• Fun Activities Guide can be found at:
http://mep.gwrra.org/
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Summary
• New and exciting FUN Activities are
not always an easy task and can be
challenging
• Fun Activities Guide is there to assist
anyone looking to have some fun
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Questions??
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