Played like traditional pick-up-sticks, the objective is to remove one candy cane from the pile without disturbing the remaining candy canes.

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Youth Icebreakers
- Candy Cane
Pick-Up-Sticks
Played like traditional pick-upsticks, the objective is to
remove one candy cane from
the pile without disturbing the
remaining candy canes.
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Materials
Candy canes, wrapped or
unwrapped, stacked into a
pile. You can use some candy
canes of a different color and
give them a higher point
value. Change this according
to the frequency of colors
and rarity for your candy
canes.
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Traditionally Scoring
• Blue Sticks – 50 Points
• Green Sticks – 40 Points
• Red Sticks – 25 Points
• Yellow Sticks – 10 Points
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Activity
• Played like traditional pickup-sticks, the objective is
to remove one candy cane
from the pile without
disturbing the remaining
candy canes.
• Use a small stick such as a
kebab skewer or chopstick
as a tool in picking up the
candy canes.
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The first player picks up
candy canes, one at a
time, until he causes any
other candy cane to move
besides the one he is
attempting to pick up.
The other team then gets
its chance to do the same.
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Read about the
significance of the Candy
Cane to the Birth of
Christ in the “Legend of
the Candy Cane”
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