Mingle, Mingle, Mingle

Summary: This team-building activity teaches participants about hunger statistics in Oregon and Clark County, Wash.

Time: 15 to 20 minutes

Age: Elementary school to adult

Materials: List of the Oregon Food Bank Network's hunger statistics

Preparation: None

Group size: 10 to 100

Procedure:

1. Tell the group members that when you shout out a number they must silently and quickly form groups of that number.

2. Have group members walk around saying “mingle, mingle, mingle.”

3. Shout the numbers that are listed below. Let the students form groups that correspond to the number you shouted. Once groups have been formed, tell the students the hunger fact that goes with that number.

Other Details:

Mingle, Mingle Mingle Oregon statistics:

1. Shout the number four. Tell the group that one in four children in Oregon and Clark County, Wash., live in a food insecure or hungry household.

2. Shout the number five. Tell the group that one in five people in Oregon and Clark County, Wash., asked OFB for emergency food at some point last year.

3. Shout the number seven. Tell the group that the minimum wage in Oregon is $7 ($7.50), while the living wage for the Portland area is $13.56 per hour.

4. Shout the number five. Tell the group that OFB can collect and distribute five pounds of food with each $1 donated.