Paper Chain Get-to-Know-You Activity | Perfect Back to School Game | Editable

Introduce themselves to classmates by name while sharing a personal answer aloud

Complete written sentence stems about their experiences, preferences, and hopes, each with a supporting reason

Listen actively for their own question cue ('Who has the answer to...?') and respond at the right moment

Cut the links apart and hand out one per student before the game; with thirty-plus slips, some students can take two in smaller classes

Give students a few minutes to write their answers first — every stem also asks for a reason, so model one elaborated answer aloud to keep responses from being one word

Start with the student holding the first link; its script explains the rules to the class, so the game runs itself from there

Community building — the class physically links every student's answers into a single chain, one turn at a time.

Active listening and turn-taking — each student must catch the question cue on the previous link to know when to speak.

Oral sharing with elaboration — every slip pairs an answer with a reason ('I like it because...'), pushing past one-word responses.