Super quick energizers, no language use

A-ram-zam-zam
Lyrics:
A-ram-zam-zam
A-ram-zam-zam
Guli-guli-guli-guli-guli ram-zam-zam
A-ram-zam-zam
A-ram-zam-zam
Guli-guli-guli-guli-guli ram-zam-zam
A-i-ya, a-eee-ya
Guli-guli-guli-guli-guli ram-zam-zam
A-i-ya, a-eee-ya
Guli-guli-guli-guli-guli ram-zam-zam
Directions:
On a ram-zam-zam – everybody claps on their knees (next time on the knees of the person
to their left)
On Guli-guli-… - everybody lightly “scratches” their necks, (next time they scratch the neck
of the person right to them)
On a-ee-ya – everybody puts both of their hands up and down as if “praying” to an
imaginary God in the middle of the circle.

A-le-le
Lyrics:
Uh/ A-le-le/ Alele-kita-bonga/ A-massa-massa-massa/ Uh-woo-woo-woooop.

Boom chika boom

Lyrics
I said a boom chika boom
I said a boom chika boom
I said a boom chika roka chika roke chike boom
Oh Yeah?
Aha!
___________ style (e.g. John’s style)
Directions:
The leader says line by line while showing a move, everybody then has to repeat every line
and move of the leader.

Cowboy dance
Hey----hey-hey-hey-hey
(throw your hands one by one in the air)
Riki-tiki-taaavi
(scooch down and move your arms from left to right over your knees)
A-iaiaiaiai-hey
(turn around while pretending to spin a lasso over your head that you will throw on “hey”)
Repeat a couple of times the whole thing while going slow/fast/quiet/loud

1-2-3… 10 (Shake it)

Everybody shakes their right hand/left hand/right foot/left foot/bosom/head while
counting to ten. The everybody does the same thing but counting to 9, later 8, 7 … 1. The
speed increases with the decrease of numbers.
Jelly fish
Lyrics:
A jelly fish (repeat 5 times)
Hands up (everybody repeats = e.r.), Wrists together (e.r.)
A jelly fish (repeat 5 times)
Hands up (e.r.), Wrists together (e.r.), Elbows together (e.r.)
A jelly fish (repeat 5 times)
Hands up (e.r.), Wrists together (e.r.), Elbows together (e.r.), Knees together (e.r.)
A jelly fish (repeat 5 times)
Hands up (e.r.), Wrists together (e.r.), Elbows together (e.r.), Knees together (e.r.), Toes in
(e.r.)
A jelly fish (repeat 5 times)
Hands up (e.r.), Wrists together (e.r.), Elbows together (e.r.), Knees together (e.r.), Toes in
(e.r.), Butt out (e.r.)
A jelly fish (repeat 5 times)
Hands up (e.r.), Wrists together (e.r.), Elbows together (e.r.), Knees together (e.r.), Toes in
(e.r.), Butt out (e.r.), Tongue out (e.r.)
A vavava (repeat 5 times)

La-pick
La-Pick/ La-chalk/ La-piko/-laka/-za/na/, La-piko/-laka/-za/na/, La-Pick/ la/-chalk/.
(the group forms a circle and put their hands on the shoulder of their neighbours. The
groups has to jump on each “/”. The group jumps in the following order: Forward, back,
forward, back, right, left, forward, back, right, left, forward, back, right. You can attempt to
repeat this faster.

Screamer
Everybody stands in a circle. And looks down. On the count of 1,2,-3-, everybody looks up
and has to choose one person (not a thing in the room but a person) and look at their eyes.
If the person they chose looks back at them, both have to scream as loud as possible and
leave the circle after they do. If the person they chose looks at a different person, they don’t
do anything. Everyone looks down again and waits for the count off. The game is finished
when there are only 2-3 people left in the circle.
You can make the game more useful by having participants discuss certain questions in
pairs when they are out.

Easy lyrics energisers

Bear Hunt
Lyrics
We’re going to a bear hunt
And we are not scared
Cause we’ve got bullets,
And guns
Lots of them,
Yea!
We’re going through a forest,
It’s very thick
We can’t get over it,
We can’t get around it,
We have to go through it!
Wshooh-wshooh, shooh-shooh-shooh.
Shake off the leaves.
We’re going through the river
It’s very deep,
We can’t get over it,
We can’t get around it,
We have to swim through it!
Wshooh-wshooh, shooh-shooh-shooh.
Shake off the water.
We’re going through a mountain,
It’s very high,
We can’t get over it,
We can’t get around it,
We have to go through it!
Wshooh-wshooh, shooh-shooh-shooh.
Enjoy the view, Oooo-ooo
Slide down…
We came to a cave,
It’s very dark
There’s something fury
Aaaahhhh
It’s a bear
Run!!!
Through the mountain,
Wshooh-wshooh, shooh-shooh-shooh.
Enjoy the view, Oooo-ooo
Slide down…
Through the river
Wshooh-wshooh, shooh-shooh-shooh.
Shake off the water.
Through the forest
Wshooh-wshooh, shooh-shooh-shooh.
Shake off the leaves.
….
We went on a bear hunt,
And we were not scared,
Casue we had guns,
And bullets,
Lot’s of them
Yeah!!!
Directions:
A leader says everything line by line while everybody repeats every line. Everybody is also
setting the rhythm through an entire game by slapping their knees.

My name is Joe
Lyrics:
Hey,
My name is Joe
And I work at a button factory
One day
My boss came up to me and said
Hey Joe,
Are you busy?
I said No!
-> He said Push the button with your right hand (
Directions: repeat everything while imitating that you are constantly pushing a button with
your right hand, then finish with adding gradually to the last line: He said Push the button
with your left hand/right foot/left foot/head/Enough)
The leader says everything line by line, everybody repeats everything after the leader.

Zulus
Lyrics
If you look at me,
A zooloo you will see,
If you stand by me,
A Zooloo you will be.
Hey, Zulus, Attention, Common!
Right hand (start clapping your right knee with your right hand)/ Left hand (start clapping
your left knee with your left hand in addition to the right hand) / Right foot (add stumping
your right foot to everything else) / Left foot (add stumping your left foot -> jumping) / Up
(pull your head back) / Down (move your head up and down) / Around (make a circle
around yourself when jumping).

Let me see you get down

Lyrics
Group 1: Hey You (you can be substituted with a team name or student names)
Group 2: Hey what?
G1: Hey you
G2: Hey what?
G1: Let me see you get down!
G2: No way!
G1: Oh, Let me se you get down
G2: Ok
Together:
D-O-W-N and that’s the way you get down. Woooh!
D-O-W-N and that’s the way you get down. Woooh!
(everybody does a little dance/step and clap while screaming out the last words in a
rhythm)

Jigalo
Lyrics
G1: Hey blue team!
G2: Hey what!
G1: Hey blue team
G2: Hey what
G1: Can you Jig?
G2: Jig What?
G1: Jigalo! With your hands up high/ and your knees down low/ this is how you jigalo
Everybody: Jig, allele, jig-jig, a-le-le (repeat 2 times while doing funky moves)

Stump and Grind

A: Hey blue team
B: Hey what?
A: Hey Blue team!
B: Hey what?
A: We see you walking down the street and boy they say you got no beat!
B: Oh honey child, you must be blind, cause you aint seen my stump&grind!
Together (while dancing): Stump, and grind; stump stump, and grind. (2 times).

Jay bird
Way down the road,
Not that very far off
A Jay bird died,
From a whooping cough.
It coughed so hard.
That it coughed its head
And it’s tale right off
It is a “repeat after me song”. Every line has a move that goes with it, that everybody has to
repeat after the leader together with the words. Repeat the song a couple of times going
from quiet and slow to loud and fast.

Big Moose
There was a great big moose!
He liked to drink a lot of juice.
There was a great big moose!
He liked to drink a lot of juice.
Singin' way oh way oh
Way oh way oh way oh way oh
Way oh way oh
Way oh way oh way oh way oh

The moose's name was Fred.

He liked to drink his juice in bed.
The moose's name was Fred.
He liked to drink his juice in bed.
Singin' way oh way oh
Way oh way oh way oh way oh
Way oh way oh
Way oh way oh way oh way oh

He drank his juice with care,

but he spilled some in his hair.
He drank his juice with care,
but he spilled some in his hair.
Singin' way oh way oh
Way oh way oh way oh way oh
Way oh way oh
Way oh way oh way oh way oh

Now he's a sticky moose

Because he's covered in the juice!
Singin' way oh way oh
Way oh way oh way oh way oh
Way oh way oh
Way oh way oh way oh way oh
Bananas
It’s a repeat after me song
Form bananas, form form bananas (x2)
(start lifting your arm (left then right) over your head to “form a banana”)
Pill bananas, pill pill bananas (x2)
(put your arms down to the beat of the song)
Cut bananas, cut cut bananas (x2)
(make cutting motions)
Squash bananas, squash squash bananas (x2)
(twist)
Eat bananas, eat eat bananas (x2)
(imagine showing food in your mouth)
Go bananas, go go bananas (x2)
(go crazy jumping up and down)

Baby shark
Baby shark do-doo, do-d-do-doo (x2)
(clap your hands (or fingers) together as the jaws of a baby shark)
Mama shark do-doo, do-d-do-doo (x2)
(make clapping motions with your entire arms)
Dady shark do-doo, do-d-do-doo (x2)
(clapping using one hand to one foot)
Grandma shark do-doo, do-d-do-doo (x2)
(put your wrists together and make clapping motions with your fists (a toothless shark))
People swim do-doo, do-d-do-doo (x2)
(swimming motions)
Saw a fin do-doo, do-d-do-doo (x2)
(put your hands together over your head)
Swimming fast do-doo, do-d-do-doo (x2)
(swimming fast)
Shark attack do-doo, do-d-do-doo (x2)
(jump up and down in panic)
Lost a leg do-doo, do-d-do-doo (x2)
(Jump holding one of your legs folded)
Happy shark do-doo, do-d-do-doo (x2)
(put one hand up over your head like a fin, and rub your stomach with another hand)

Ride that pony

Lyrics
Here I go with a big fat pony, here I go with a big fat pony, Here I go with a big fat pony,
Early in the morning;
Front to front to front, my baby,
Back to back to back, my baby
Side to side to side, my baby,
This is how you do it.

Time-consuming games

Train of Love
Lyrics:
We live in a train of love, Aaaah
We live in a train of love, Aaaah
We live in a train of friendship,
We live in train of love, Aaah.
Directions:
1. Everybody stands in a close circle, everybody faces the back of the person in front of
them, hands on the shoulders of the person in front. They walk in that circle singing
the song.
2. The circles becomes really tight. Everybody has to stand sideways really close to
each other. On a count of three everybody tries to sit down (so that everybody sits
down on the knees of a person behind them and everybody has the person in front
of them sit on their knees). They now need to once again try to walk around in a
circle without standing up. They will most probably fail the first time. Usually when
asked what they could do better the students come up with a strategy where
somebody has to count or say out loud which leg everybody starts with every time
they do a step.

Ninjas
The group forms a circle and has to freeze in a certain pose. They choose one person to
start. That person has to slap one hand of their neighbor to the left with one of his/her
hands, while the neighbor tries to not let that happen. Both the slapper and the person
being slapped only have one motion for this move. A hand that was slapped is out of the
game. Everybody goes in circle to slap hands. Whoever has hands left in the game wins.

Hi-Ha-Ho (укр – хі, ха, хо)

Students form a circle. They now have to pass an imaginary “energy ball”. The first to go
(1), raises his hands over his head, palms together and while saying “Hi” lowers them
quickly pointing to a random person (2) in the circle. This person (2) has to respond with
saying “Ha” while quickly raising his hands up (palms together), during this time the two
people on right and left from this person (2) have to say “Ho” while putting their hands
(palms together like a sword) to the belly of the person in the middle. Then the cycle starts
again. The person who was in the middle (and said “ha”, should still have his hands over his
head) starts with “Hi” again.

Find a leader
Everybody stands in a circle. One person is escorted out of the room. People in the circle
choose a leader, who will show moves that everybody has to repeat (clapping, jumping,
touching your ear, etc.). The leader starts showing a move, everybody repeats. The person
who was escorted out returns to the circle; He now has 3 tries to guess who the leader is.
The leader, in turn, has to change moves fairly often.

People to people
Students are split into pairs. The leader calls out two body parts (elbow-nose, nose-to-
cheek, knee-to-heel, forehead-to-belly, Back-to-knee, etc.). The pairs have to put those two
body parts together. When the leader says People-to-people, everybody finds a new pair.
Ninjas/wizards/dwarfs
This game is a lot like “rock paper scissors”, only here, the figures are those stated in the
name. Use your imagination to act out each figure with your entire body. In order to play
the kids are split into 2 groups. They form two lines facing each other. The teams discuss
which figure they will show. On the count of 1-2-3, both teams show their figures. The team
who won has to catch members of the team who lost, While the team who lost has to run
away into the “safe zone” (safe zone has to be set before the game begins).
Who beats who:
Ninjas win over wizards
Wizards win over dwarfs
Dwarfs win over ninjas
If both teams choose the same character both teams hug.