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Things for a retreat:
If it's all day and perhaps with a night spent at the chapter's living unit, then you can do a lot.
Low Ropes course
Have them bring an item that means a lot to them and have them share it with the group.
Since it's girls...give each other make overs
This isn't the best idea since it's a chapter sponsored event, but get them a bunch of alcohol and let them hang out together for one night. I know I'm always amazed at the power of sharing a beer or 6 with one of my pledge bros in a non party atmosphere, where we can just sit and chill. It really does help to connect people.
Have them explain what drew them to your chapter, or why they decided to go greek.
Give them a quiz the following week over everyone's names, hometowns, and majors.(we did it like a name game thing where you had to repeat the info of everyone preceeding you) (we did this as our first thing in my pledge semester, and without hesitation I can tell you where everyone's from, what their major was and has changed to. This seemed to impress a lot of sorority girls during our pledge semester since they only knew a couple of girls in their pledge class that well.
Truth or Dare Jenga
Some sort of group activity where you put them with people that you know they don't really hang out with.
Whatever you do, I think it is important that the focus should be on having the pledges share who they are with each other, and you should strive to make the activities ones that prevent cliques.
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