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This is the second part of Icebreaker games HIT
Make a grid (3x3, 4x4 - whatever works for the size group you have. Fill
> each in with a description - a person who wears glasses, has on sneakers,
> wearing blue. These are very generic, but add some more that are more
> difficult - someone who plays a piano, is the youngest child, has two
> or more children. Then hand them out as an ice breaker. People have to
> mingle to find the answers and sign the square that describes them.
>
> For example someone might walk up to me and say "do you wear glasses?"
> (I do) I would reply yes, and sign the box with that question. I would
> then perhaps ask, "Are you the youngest in your family?" Depending on the
> yes or no, you might sign that square on my grid or I might ask you
another
> question. Each person can only sign each grid once. Decide for yourself
> if you want a row - corners or how many "answers" it takes to win.
>
> If you know someone in the group has an unusual hobby or talent, it
> makes for interesting questioning. (ie. someone who knows all the
> lyrics to the Patti Duke show)
> --------------------------------
> Give the group directions - north, south, east, west. Have the members
> align themselves in the roon where they were born. Then have them
> share. Next have them move to their favorite vacation spot, or amaybe
> where they would like to visit.
> -------------------------------
> A fun activity is to give each guest 5 clothespins and then instruct them
> that if they can get other guests to answer "no" to a question they can
> take away one clothespin. The person with the most clothespins wins.
> Have fun!
> ----------------------------------------
> I did kind of a fun one at a Christmas party last year. Everyone was
> given a slip of paper with the name of an animal on the paper. Each
> animal had a mate ;another person in the room with the same animal name
on
> their slip of paper. Each person had to find their"mate' by wandering
> around the room making the sound of their assigned animal. Then we had
to
> find out something about our"mate" and introduce them to the "herd." It
> was a riot.
> -------------------------------------------------
> Have people form two circles, one inside the other with the people facing
> each other. (each person must have someone they are facing) The
moderator
> asks questions and
> the people tell each other the answers. The questions are "get
> acquainted", "most embarrassing moment", etc. types. Have the inside
> circle move so many people for each question (like 3 people to the right,
> etc.) Plan it so that when you come to the last question, they are back
> facing the person they started with.
> ----------------------------------------
> How about... Tell us your name. How did you get it? (ie Are you named
> after someone) and do you like it? or Take something out of your purse
> or pocket and tell us a story about it. I did the latter activity and
> used my key chain which I have carried since high school.
> -----------------------------------------
> I've strung yarn around the inside of the house and had each person
> who comes in the door take a string. As they roll up the yarn, they
> are to look around the rooms to familarize themselves with the items
> there. At the end of the yarn is a clue. That clue takes them to the
> next clue (approximately seven clues). The last clue is to pop a
> baloon to see if they've won a prize (pack of gum, roll of toilet
> paper, chap stick, etc.)
> -----------------------------------
> Scavenger hunts are always a hit - we have two teams and each person
> on the team has to take a turn at going into a public place wearing
> something really strange (weird hat, clown shoes, etc.). There are
> about seven glues which lead them to stores and restaurants
> throughout the city. They would be required to write down who is on
> the cover of a specific magazine; what's the headline on a given
> newspaper; what's the price of a can of french-style green beans,
> etc. We have spotters at the locations - their responsibility is to
> make sure that the team member is wearing the required item. If they
> do not wear the hat or clown shoes, points are deducted.
> ---------------------------------------
> We've tossed cards into a hat.
> Bounced tennis balls from one end of the room into a container.
> Clothes pins in a jar.
> Blew cotton balls from a start line to a finish line
> Purchased some really big clothes at a thrift store and had two
> teams. Each team member had to run up to a bag of clothes, put them
> on over their regular clothes, then take them off, go back to their
> team, and the next person does the same thing...first team finished
> wins.
> Pictionary
> Charades
> String or clothes line - toss hangers to see if they stay on.
> ------------------------------
> This isn't a game but it works well as an icebreaker. Divide into groups
> by oldest child in family, youngest child, middle child, and only child
> and have each group talk about their experiences as an only child, etc.
> and then have each group report to the entire group.
> -----------------------------
> One we've used with our church groups is to get an obscure fact about
> themselves from each person, list them all on a page copied for each,
> and invite the people to find who's which.
> Example; My wife was born in Stonewall Jackson's house (at the time,
> converted to a hospital.)
> ---------------------------------
> USE TWO HULA HOOPS - have all stand in a circle (or two) depending on
> numbers
> of people - all hold hands - break one set of hands and insert a hula
hoop
> - have ALL people work their way through the hoop - use two and go in
both
> directions and back to original point.
> ---------------------------------------
> First they write down the answers to these questions:
> What would I do if I won the lottery:
> My favorite place in the world is:
> My friends think that I am:
> My friends would be surprised to know that I:
> My idea of a perfect evening is:
> I keep this under my bed:
> The "Winnie the Pooh" character I most identify with is:
>
> Then break them into small groups. The groups have to pick someone
> else in the room to describe without using physical
> characteristics--in other words they try to answer these questions
> about someone in the room, by using their imagination ( and
> answering/guessing these questions). Preconceptions are then blown
> when you have the person they picked read the answers they wrote
> down. You go around the room at the end and have everyone who was
> not picked tell their answers. (They usually want you to participate
> as well).
>
> You may want to make a rule that they can't pick you as their
> subject, or all the groups will decide to try to guess what you have
> under your bed.
>
> I hope this is clear--modify at your will. It's fun--a lot of
> laughs!
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> One of my favorites is one I use with storytelling workshops...I devise
> a list of 10 experience and you have to go around and find one person's
> name to put next to each experience. 1. Have lived in a haunted house.
> 2. Have been published. 3. Have been in an earthquake. 4. Toronado...
> and so it goes the list can be varied and as personal or otherwise as
> you like.
>
> You can offer a door prize to the person who is the only person in the
> room to fit one of the experiences. Or to the person who finishes
> first.....
> -----------------------------
> We did a neat activity with our faculty not too long ago that was
actually
> designed as a "diversity" awareness activity but you could adapt it. We
> had
> a grid with about25 items on it with things like "cooks good Italian
food,"
> "has travelled to more than one continent," "has attended a bar mitzvah,"
> "name 10 Native American tribes," etc. You had to go around talking to
> people and if they had done any or knew about any of the items, they
> initialled the box. One person could only initial two boxes. Then when
> we
> were through, the people that had initialed the various boxes told what
the
> knew about those people, places, events. We have also had everybody turn
> in
> ahead of time one unusual thing about themselves. Then we made up a list
> and you had to go around and try to figure out who had written which one.
> ---------------------------------
> How about trying "Who's on Noah's Ark?" Pin or tape
> the name of an animal on each guest's back; each one tries to guess the
> name of their animal by asking questions of other guests. Is it a
> mammal? Does it live in the Arctic? Have a prize for the first one to
> guess the animal - animal cookies? Have fun.
> ----------------------------------
> One class I took had these balls made of strings of crepe paper. The
> ball started with one person and they began to unroll it. Some people
> has questions, some people had candy. You can throw it around or pass
> it.
> -----------------------------------
> It runs on the concept of musical chairs. There were 100
> teachers and 99 pieces of paper to stand on. 99 of us stood in a large
> circle on our papers, and one person stood in the middle. The middle
> person stated an experience that he or she had, and everyone who had
shared
> in that experience had to leave their pieces of paper and find a new one.
> Example: Getting a speeding ticket. Suddenly fifty or so people would
> shift papers, and the one who lost would have to choose a new category.
> ------------------------------------------
> There are many more sedentary games. One of my friends had to do a
> "sharing" type activity before every board meeting of his company. His
> favorite was "What was the most expensive thing you have ever spat out?"
> -----------------------------------------
> You've played 'Pictionary', right? Drawing pictures for your team to
> guess assigned word or phrase? Play Pictionary, except replace the pad of
> paper with play-doh -- you have to sculpt the clues.
> --------------------------------------
> Count how many adults you have. Count off so people are in pairs.
> Everyone faces each other. They have 30 seconds to memorize what the
other
> person looks like.
> Then everyone stands back to back.
> Each person must change one thing about how they look - such aw switching
> shoes, removing a pin, unbuootning a sweater, etc.
> Then the pairs face each other and try to find what is different.
> --------------------------------
> Each person removes one shoe and puts it in a pile in the middle of the
> circle.
> Each person then chooses a shoe and must find it's owner.
> -------------------------------
> Whew, I'm through!
koontzs@horizon.hit.net (home)
koontzs@usd286.hit.net (school)
Sharon Koontz, K-12 LMS
U.S.D. 286
Sedan KS 67361
"Never judge a book by its movie."- J.W. Eagan
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