Ice Breaker Games & Ideas Now on Kindle

Previously published at $17.95 our “Incredible Ice Breaker Games & Ideas” Ebook is now available on Kindle at an introductory price of $4.99 for a limited period only. Take advantage now and reap huge savings!

Over 100 of our favourite ice breakers, that we have used continuously for over 26 years with our training, team building and events company’s clients are contained within.

Download easily onto Kindle and onto your phone’s Kindle App and you will have a ready stock of games and ideas at your finger tips where ever you go!

Although this is our Corporate Collection of Ice Breaker Games & Ideas you will be certain to find plenty of ideas for all sorts of gatherings from social and community events to training and team building; from Christmas parties to youth groups and schools.

Never be without a selection of ice breakers and energisers to ramp up your events, turn boring into extraordinary and help people settle in, make friends and warm to the main message of the day.

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Easy Ice Breaker

Ice Breaker Games

Imaginative Ice Breaker Idea 

There’s a cool article in The Sunday Times Style mag this weekend.

In it they asked some foodies “if you were a vegetable….”

Of course this got me thinking – it’s quite similar to some of our ice breaker games “if you were a car what would you be?” “if you were a dog what would it be..?” Obviously they have to expand on their answers and the Sunday Times had some really insightful ones…

Jason Atherton, executive chef at Pollen Street Social

“I would be a heritage potato, because they are earthy and have amazing staying power.”

Lily Vanilli, cupcake maker

“Asparagus, because I’ve got great tips, or maybe celeriac, because I’m well hard.”

Ravinder Bhogal, recipe writer and TV presenter

“An onion, because there are lots of layers to me (my first layer comes off easily). Also i’m best when pickled”

You get the picture! There’s absolutely no reason why you couldn’t use this as an ice breaker game for your training, meetings and events.

For shed loads of fantastic ice breaker games to electrify your meetings, training, social and corporate events, check out the ice breaker ideas web-site NOW!

Ice Breaker Games

A long time ago when I was starting out in my career I worked in an outdoor centre for children and young adults. The first evening was always given over to a session of Ice Breaker Games.

This was the first time I had ever come across such a concept, but since then, I have used ice breaker games to great effect in nearly all my jobs, places, meetings, training sessions,conventions, parties and corporate and social gatherings.

Ice breaker games are fantastic for breaking down barriers rapidly and for helping people feel at ease with each other. Used correctly they can rapidly create an atmosphere of fun and expectation.

The key is to start with simple, non-threatening ice breaker games and gradually build up the complexity or outrageousness as the group allows. Once the ice is broken the group will look forward readily to the main topic of the day.

There are thousands of ice breaker games and ideas that can help you get your next event off to a flying start; whether you are looking for a meeting ice breaker to inject a bit of fun before the more serious business begins or you are looking for a party ice breaker to transform your event into the next memorable experience.

Check-out the ice breaker ideas web-site for the most fun you can handle!

Ice Breaker Game – Connections

Here’s a great ice breaker for teams or groups meeting for the first time. You will need only a large ball of string or wool.

Introduce the exercise “We’re meeting here for the first time. Most of us don’t know each other at all. It’s easier to get to know each other and make connections with people when you find something in common. This is the main purpose of this ice breaker game. In some cases you might have a lot in common with an individual but often you have to discover what it is first. This game will give you a helping hand”

Ask everyone to sit or stand in a circle. Starting with yourself, say “My name is Sharon” and start to talk about yourself. “I have 3 sisters. I love to ride horses. I drive to work. I work at…etc. etc.” By this time hopefully you might find someone else in the group with 3 sisters or even a sister and they then shout “CONNECT!” when they have found something to connect with you. Holding onto the tail-end of the ball of string you throw the ball to them. They then introduce themselves and continue saying something about themselves until someone else connects with them. They then hold onto the string and throw the ball to that person. And on it goes.

Ensure everyone has a go at connecting with at least one other person in the group; you might want to add this as a rule until everyone has had a go. Continue connecting until you have had enough. You will now be in a tangle of string or spider’s web.

End the ice breaker game by explaining that we all have things in common with other people, but they are often hidden. Look at all the ways we are interconnected with each other… look at all the strands of the web. Building relationships and rapport can be speeded up by finding and sharing similarities. 

Sharon Naylor is passionate about ice breaker games for work, play, parties, meetings, groups and clubs. In fact anywhere people are connecting to others whether it be for the first time or even when familiar with each other. Ice breaker games inject a sense of fun into proceedings, speed up that getting to know you stage and get people ready to face the rest of the event with eagerness and optimism. For more brilliant ice breaker ideas that you can use with your own groups and teams visit the ice breaker ideas web-site.



Ice Breaker Game – First Impressions

Icebreakers are amazing allies for getting groups and teams to gel and work together quickly.

Many trainers, group leaders, teachers, charity workers, committee leaders, church, youth and team leaders to professional consultants and managers employ ice breakers to break down barriers and accelerate the getting to know you phase of learning and engagement.

This ice breaker game is ideal for newer teams. Ideal group size is 6-15.

• Give each person an envelope and enough peices of paper for every person in the group. Therefore, if there are 12 people in the group give each person an envelope and 12 strips of paper.
• Ask everyone to write their name on the envelop and then pass the envelope on to the person on their left.
• Instruct every receiver of the envelope to write a positive first impression about the person with their name on the envelope they hold. Then place the strip of paper in the enveope and pass to the left again. Repeat the process for every person in the group.

Eventually the envelope will return to the owner and will contain 12 peices of paper, each with a positive first impression. Ask each person in turn to pick a strip out of their envelope and read aloud a positive attribute.

This is so powerful! Each person will have an envelope full of positive messages and will feel warm towards the group, even though they barely know each other. This is a fantastic platform to build on!

Get more fantastic and brilliant ice breaker games and ideas for your groups and teams at ice-breaker-ideas.com

Quick Ice Breaker Game

Here’s a quick and seasonal ice breaker game for you to try at your next meeting or group session. It’s called:

Snowballs

•  Hand out pen and paper and ask everyone to sit in a circle.
•  Ask everyone to write one fact of interest about themselves on the paper.
• Once finished, get everyone to crumple up the paper to form a “snowball” and chuck them into the centre of the circle.
• Mix the snowballs up and then invite people to take a snowball
• In turn, each person introduces themselves, reads out their snowball and then tries to guess who wrote it. They can have up to 3 guesses

It’s a really quick way of finding out a bit more about each other.

For a riskier version ask participants to write down the most interesting thing about themselves!

For more easy and  quick icebreakers to engage your participants, visit the ice breaker ideas web-site

Ice Breaker Games

Many team building programs start by asking people to introduce themselves. This helps people to relax and to get to know each other quickly and many more meetings, group sessions, training programs and social functions would be much more engaging and enjoyable for the participant if they too were able to experience the magic of a simple ice breaker at the beginning of an event.

 

Rather than simply ask people to introduce themselves (and some leaders even miss out this stage leaving participants to uncomfortably make connections with others on their own) add a little more fun to proceedings …. tell people you want them to try and find out a bit more about each other in a light-hearted and fun way. Ask people to introduce themselves and then add any of the following:

• the place where they were born
• their favourite holiday destination
• if you had a $million what would you spend it on?
• favourite food
• hobby

And a bit more daring you could ask people to describe:

• their favourite joke
• if they were an animal what would it be?

These simple techniques bring a bit of fun to the group and allow people to get to know others in a non-threatening way. They give people some basic and interesting information about others in the group, making it easier to make connections and talk together.

It’s easy to make up your own ice breakers too! But for tons of ice breaker ideas for your next meeting, training program, social activity or party check-out our ice breaker ideas web-site for instantly downloadable ice breaker games.

Youth Group Icebreakers

Here’s a great game to play when your group is busily chatting away and you want to start the session! It’s not really a game but is a really powerful tool to use with young people. It’s called “The Waiting Game”

 When you want to start an activity, sit patiently and wait until they are silent. This may take a while to start with, but soon the group will become bored and realise that they are wasting time, and that there are much more interesting and fun things to get on with.

Tell the group the game is called the “Waiting Game” and that you will not fight to gain their attention. That is a responsibility that they must take on themselves. It may be tempting to start with to jump in and tell groups that you are waiting to begin, but stay seated and quiet.

Soon the group will realise that that they must take responsibility for their own behaviour, and that it is not up to the leader to control the group. At all times when you are waiting you must be neutral and ignore all questions, comments until they are ready.

You must persevere with this, and gradually the time will lessen every time you meet.

Check out our youth group icebreakers and games on the ice breaker ideas web-site for tons of fun ice breaker games to use with youth groups

Ice Breaker Games

Everybody can use ice breaker games!

Games can become a way of life! Once you play ice breaker games with your groups and see them work their magic – they’ll be with you forever and will be an indispensible tool to call upon for all occasions. It’s really useful to be able to play these games, not just for work situations in meetings and for training programs, helping people relax and get to know each other quickly, but in social situations, for parties, youth groups, committee meetings etc.

Who learns how to use and gain the benefits from an ice breaker game? Everyone – business groups, spots clubs, business leaders, conference organisers,college groups, school teachers, guide and scout leaders, social and youth workers, party organisers, church group leaders, families, vouluntary groups etc. etc. The list is endless…

Planning your Christmas party for home, office or club? Then you should think about including an ice breaker game or two. Check-out our ice breaker ideas web-site for tons of fabulous ideas to make your Christmas festivities a time to remember

Benefits of Ice Breakers

Why do I love ice breaker games?

• Because they can transform a rather average or dull meeting into something rather special.
• Carefully crafted, an ice breaker can be a brilliant lead in to the main topic of the day
• People learn better when they’re having fun, and an ice breaker should be FUN!
• Ice breakers introduce people to one another in a fun and informal way
• Ice breakers relax people and help them to get to know each other far more quickly than without
• An ice breaker at the beginning of a meeting or conference means people are participating and joining in, they become more engaged than if merely listening
• And once engaged, your participants will be more receptive to your main message of the day
• Once you start using ice breakers you’ll never look back – people will look forward to your next meeting or session with anticipation

Never run a boring meeting or training session again. Set your social functions ablaze and have your audience eating out of your hand. We show you how. Go to our ice breaker ideas web-site for tons of fantastic ice breaker ideas to really set your events on fire!