Bonding could be a good thing at this point. You will get a feel of who is really bonding with your group. After all, prefs are all the women you want to become your sisters. Knowing that you won't get them all, but these are the ones you do want, so start bonding!

You could play this question game....

Put a bunch of questions in a bucket like "what's your favorite color, what's your dogs name, what is your middle name," etc.

Someone picks out a question and answers it while someone else has to guess what the question is. Kind of like eopardy. If they can't figure it out off of that person's answer, another person answers the question. It keeps going until they either figure it out or get too frustrated to keep guessing!!

Example: Pretend the question is "what state were you born in?" and Person A is guessing what the question is...

Person B pulls the question and says "Virginia." Person A guesses "Where you live." Since that is incorrect, Person C answers the question with "California." Person A guesses "Where you like to go on vacation." That is also incorrect so Person D answers with "Florida." Then Person A says "What state you were born in." Then repeat the game and have another person guess. :)

You could have a pillow fight . . .

Have you thought about the order in which you are going to accomplish all three of these activities?

(in no particular order)
Conversation
Slide Show
Interactive Game

How long is the party? Maybe do some limited conversation, show the girls to their seats, run slideshow, pick up your PNM from her seat and have her join a small group of sisters and PNMs to have a group conversation and bonding game within a smaller context than an all chapter loud and crazy "game"-- this will give a few more sisters a chance for a meaningful interaction with a few more PNM's than just an all-chapter game.

Also, if at all possible, avoid having to sit on the floor. I hated that about recruitment, especially if wearing a skirt!

That sounds like fun, and famous people goes with the idea of showing a movie... your theme for the night could be "Be a Star with Alpha Phi" or something. :)

Nothing worse than ice breakers when you're already nervous...
 

I am not a huge fan of playing those types of games in a situation where you are really trying to impress people but I did have a thought...

You might suggest to your panhellenic that they survey the pnms after recruitment to get their thoughts if this isn't something they already do. Ask them to include a question about the games to gauge whether or not the PNMs enjoyed them. If the PNMs rave that they were the best part of the process, then keep the games of course. But if they get lots of responses that the PNMs hate the games, maybe they will remove them next year.

Our round three is Video Night otherwise known as Sisterhood Celebration. The events are 40 minutes long. We mingle, do a "round robin" or "popcorn style" poem and then watch the slide show. It's really the first round where we have a decent amount of time to talk to the women so we don't need anything else to occupy our time.

Good luck!