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Icebreakers, Warmups, Energerizers, & Deinhibitizers: Activities for getting groups going
Games Index
Trust Building Activities
Team Building
Icebreakers, Warmups, Energizers, & Deinhibitizers
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gear, books, kits
Why use icebreakers?
create a positive group atmosphere
help people to relax
break down social barriers
energize & motivate
help people to think outside the box
help people to get to know one another
Icebreaker, Warmup, Energizer, Deinhibitizer Descriptions (on this website)
Balloon Activities
Games you can play with balloons to get a group having fun and working
together. Includes the hilarious "Fire in the Hole" (balloon on
tummy, running at another person, bursting the balloon).
Group Juggle
Throw balls to others
in a sequence, using each person's name. Works every time. Can be
extended to "Warp Speed"
(to see how fast the group can throw balls
through a set order to each group member).
Categories
Fun, interactive get-to-known activity. Ask a group to organise
themselves into smaller groups, based on categories such as favourite
colour.
Gotchya (Grab the Finger)
Fast-moving 5 min. group activity to get people together and focused. In a circle, right finger on next person's
left palm. Try to grab a finger before yours gets grabbed.
Human Knot
In a circle, people put their arms in and
hold someone else's hand, then try to unravel the knot without letting go
of hands. Involves getting physically close to others, stretching,
laughing and problem solving.
2 Truths & a Lie
People write down two truths about themselves and a lie. Then
introduce the three "facts" to the rest of the group who tries to guess
which one is a lie.
Fear in a Hat
Group members write personal fears anonymously on pieces of paper
which are collected. Then each person randomly selects and reads
someone else's fear to the group and explains how the person might
feel. Fosters interpersonal empathy.
Have You Ever?
Active, fun group activity to explore and celebrate the rich diversity of
people's past experiences. Works well with large groups.
Zoom
A group tries to create a unified story from a set of sequential pictures.
The pictures are randomly ordered and handed out. Each person has
a picture but cannot show it to others. Requires patience,
communication, and trying to understand from another's point of view in
order to recreate the story's sequence.
Animal Sounds
Participants are blindfolded and assigned an
animal. The challenge is to use animal noises in order to meet up
with other animals of same species. Releases energy. Loud, fun,
chaotic, then gradually order and unity emerge.
Icebreaker, Warmup, Energizer,
Deinhibitizer Descriptions (on other websites)
All
My Neighbors
A fun, moving-around
activity that breaks the ice, loosens people up, gets people alert and
engaged. Good for a group just beginning to get to know one another.
Screamer
In a circle, people look at ground, then on "heads up" look into
someone else's eyes. If 2 people are looking at each other, they
scream and are both out. Continue to see who is last - hilarious. [www.firststepstraining.com]
Pairs Tag
In pairs, one is the chaser. With a big group, this allows for lots of hiding behind others - fun and active.
[www.firststepstraining.com]
Icebreaker Websites
Top 10 Icebreakers for Meetings
& Training Seminars
Favorite T-shirt, Personal Bingo, Say Cheese
(Polaroid Snaps), Famous People/Cities, Sensuous Sam & Inquiring Ida,
Dream Vacation, Favorite Animal, Birthday Partner, Long Lost Relative,
Circle of Friends
[Janice Lavore, 1997, www.topten.org]
Icebreaker games
Cheeky Cheeky, Dress the Mummy, Gum Art, Gum
Game, Ha Hah, Ice Cube Hunt, King Boe Boe's Ring, Messy Twist, Moo Game,
Puzzle Piece Search, Rumor, Scavenger Hunt, String Toos, Un-cola Pop Off,
What's in Your Bag?, Who am I?
[FunAttic.com]
Large Group Icebreakers, Pt I
Alright-OK, Positive Recognitions, We'd Like
To Welcome, Get a Grip, Creative Handshake
[www.firststepstraining.com]
Games to warmup for drama
Covers many common experiential games with basic descriptions
Icebreakers, warmups,
energerizers, motivators
Groupwork exercises for helping people get to know themselves, one another, and the nature of their group.
Improv games collection
Drama-based warm-ups - collection of 350 games
Team-builders, icebreakers
Name, high energy, low energy games, and more. [www.ResidentAssistant.com]
SGX - Simulation/gaming resource exchange
Wide range of experiential game resources,
esp. see
"Manual simulation/game" and
"Structured simulation/game"
Info about icebreakers
Get to know each other & team-building activities
[Ohio State University]
Energizers
Energizer to add zest to your program
[John Sleigh]
Icebreakers
Extensive, well-organized, easy to navigate
[Mike Wills]
Icebreaker activities
Interesting, different set of icebreaker resources.
Icebreakers
2000: Get-to-know-you activities for the first day of school
19 activities for teachers to use to help with getting to know one another on the first day of school.
[Education World]
Icebreakers for school
Activities for school settings. [pop-ups]
Icebreakers for corporate
Corporate leadership training.
Last updated:
30 Jul 2007
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