This is a fun get to know you icebreaker activity for students in the first few days of school. Students pull an M&M out of the bag and answer the question associated with the color. Enjoy!
The four corners icebreaker game is one of my favorites! It's quick and easy. It will get people up and moving. Read the full directions here.
Tackle that awkward getting-to-know-you moment with these 6 fun ESL icebreaker activities. Whether you work with ESL beginners or more advanced students, children or adults, these icebreakers are sure to make the start of your year great!
16 Icebreaker questions which can be used for all kinds of occasions! 1. Social Gatherings: Icebreaker questions are great for parties, dinners, or any social event where people are meeting for the first time or in a casual setting. You can start by posing a light-hearted question to the group or individuals, allowing everyone to take turns answering. 2. Networking Events: When attending professional networking events or conferences, use icebreaker questions to initiate conversations with new people. 3. Workshops or Training Sessions: If you're leading a workshop or training session, icebreaker questions can help participants get to know each other and feel more comfortable sharing their thoughts throughout the session. 4. Team-Building Activities: In team-building exercises, icebreaker questions can be used to promote camaraderie and cooperation among team members. 5. Virtual Meetings or Webinars: In online settings, icebreaker questions can be useful to engage participants and create a sense of community. Before diving into the main topic, ask some of these questions. 6. Classroom Settings: Icebreaker questions can be beneficial for teachers to establish a positive and inclusive learning environment. Start or end the day with questions. Download Instructions: Once your purchase is made, you will receive an email with a link to access your printable file. You can also access your file under "Purchases" on your Etsy account. Print as many copies as you need! You will always have access to this file to re-download. Important Information: Prints on 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Once Etsy processes your payment, you can download your file directly from Etsy. This is a digital product. Nothing will be shipped. Not available for resale. Thank you so much for your support!
Icebreaker Bingo - Nice to meet you This Icebreaker Bingo encourages participants to get to know each other during the first session of their antenatal classes. They'll be walking round the room, trying to find matches to their individual bingo cards. Each icebreaker bingo card is unique! Bingo cards are included as A4 and A5, printable in standard A4. Both, the singleton baby and the twins and multiples version are included in the price. I recommend that you laminate the cards and use them with dry-wipe makers to make them reusable and safe you time as well as money in the long run! This is a digital product which is printable on standard A4 paper. There is no need to set up anything or change any settings. Just download, open and print! Handout copyright: All rights reserved. You have permission to reproduce this handout in print with complete credit given to the author. This PDF may not be posted online. Handouts may be distributed freely in print but not sold. I also offer workshops and mentoring for all birth worker and teachers. Especially for online learning, but also on how to use any of my products and activities. Book on one of my workshops or sign up for one of my online courses.
Too many classroom icebreakers require students to take big social risks with people they barely know. Or they don't really help students get to know each other. Or they are just plain cheesy.
Unique, fun Icebreakers and games for Women's Ministry Events, Bible studies, small groups, and Youth Group. Everyday and Seasonal icebreakers.
Too many classroom icebreakers require students to take big social risks with people they barely know. Or they don't really help students get to know each other. Or they are just plain cheesy.
We all love post-it notes, don't we?! Did you know that there are tons of activities you can do with them in your classroom? Well, check out 7 such activities below: we have created this HI-
These fun and easy team-building icebreakers for meetings build rapport and increase teamwork. Contains great options for remote and on-site teams!
Here is a fun large group mixer you can use to get to know new people. We called this our "m&m mixer"The first MOPS meeting of a new semester can be exciting for returning members and perhaps a little nerve-racking for the new members. Many of these moms do not know their tablemates and may need some help in breaking the ice. To get conversations going and facilitate introductions we provided this fun "m&m mixer". It was a great way for the moms to get to know one another without the anxiety that can come in first meetings. Each mom was provided the above printout and a fun-size bag of m&ms. They were instructed to share a little bit about themselves based on the color of m&m they pulled out of their bag, using the printout as a reference. For instance, if I pulled out a yellow m&m I would tell the ladies my favorite things about my daughter, (which is her sense of humor and cuddles)! We set a 10 minute limit on the mixer, just enough time for everyone to learn fun and interesting tidbits about one another! To download the PDF of the m&m mixer, click here.
Icebreakers are a great way to get a group of people interacting and connected. But sometimes, as the leader, it can be hard to find quick ways to do them. I know this first hand.
I really dislike icebreakers. They make me cringe. When I became a teacher, I swore I would spare my students the torture of icebreakers. That being said, I also realize how important it is to buil…
The Great Candy Pass is a huge hit with groups of all sizes! Print off the list of included questions, grab some wrapped candy, and you're ready to go!
Looking for a get to know you game for your small group? Try this M&M game as your next icebreaker and grab my free printable to make it easy.
Who's already prepping for their back to school week?!? One of my very favorite things about the first few weeks of school is getting to know my students,....and my students getting to know one another. I just love it! They are so eager and excited about their new classroom, teacher, and friends! I put together several fun and interactive icebreaker activities, as well as interactive team building activities and games to use during those first few weeks of school. Let's take a look at them :) There are 5 icebreaker activities that you can use all during the first back to school week, or you can spread them out over the first few weeks or so. Heads or Tails: Students work in pairs to flip a coin and answer question cards to get to know one another. For example if a student flips over the card "dog or cat". They might respond by telling their partner, "I like dogs because they can do silly tricks." Next up is The Colors of Me. This is completed as a whole group. Students pass the bowl of Skittles around the circle. One student at a time will take a Skittle from the bowl, and complete the sentence stem that corresponds with the color of their Skittle. Afterwards, they can complete the follow up rainbow craftivity - they are adorable hanging in the hallway! Guess Who: Students fill out their individual Guess Who card. After each student has completed their card, the teacher mixes all the cards together in a bowl and students reach in the bowl and choose a card. If they get their own, they place it back in the bowl and choose again. Once all students have a card, students walk around the room and try to find who the card belongs to based on the clues that are written on the card. Trading Places: Students split into 2 groups - this could be girls vs. boys or however you choose to split them. The teacher reads aloud one of the questions from the question cards and if students answer "yes", then they jump over the line. Making Friends: We do this activity every year. Students mix and mingle around the room to find a friend that can sign a square on their scavenger hunt. Team building is SO important to establish during those first weeks. We take several weeks to discuss how to treat each other, what makes a good team, and what we are going to do to make sure that everyone is being a team player! I have included 3 team building activities that are engaging and meaningful for your students. Here's a look at those... Bucket Filler: After reading the book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today by Carol McCloud, we discuss ways that we can be a bucket filler within our classroom. One way to have your students practice using encouraging and helpful words, is to play Bucket Filler. I had my daughter and nephew demonstrate this game on my Instagram Story and they had so much fun. To play, students get into teams (4 or 5 teams). They line up behind the bowl of pompoms. The first student in line places their pom pom in the launcher (plastic cup with balloon), and try to launch the pom pom into the bucket. The students behind the student launching the pom pom encourage them and use kind, helpful words while they are trying to launch the pompom into the bucket. If they get the pom pom in the bucket, their team gets a point and the next student in their line goes. If they miss, they place their pompom back into the bowl and the next student in their line goes. Whichever team gets all of their pompoms into the bucket first, wins (if you choose to have a winning team). Afterwards, students complete this bucket filler craftivity and write about how they can be a bucket filler. Students can also play Fill and Scoot by writing a kind word about their friend inside their friend's bucket. Students will each have a bucket page sitting on their table with their name on it. Students will write a kind word and SCOOT to the next student's bucket when the teacher calls "Scoot". This continues until all students have been to everyone's bucket. You can download this freebie here. Shape Maker: Students work in table groups to draw as many shapes as they can by holding ONLY the string that is attached to their table's marker. You can also set a timer and challenge them to draw a certain amount of shapes within that time. This is a blast! The goal is for all the students in the table group to work together to create the shapes. Next up is a fun goal setting activity with Trashketball! Students line up in front of a trash can, state their learning goal and one thing they plan to do to help reach that goal, and then throw the ball (or crumbled paper) into the basket. Also included are a few character building activities. Each year, we make a Social Contract in my class. We talk about how we want our classroom to feel, how we want everyone to treat each other, what everyone needs to do to help in our classroom, how we want our classroom to run, etc. We tie this in to being a TEAM and how a team treats each other. We then create an anchor chart to display in our room. Every student, plus me, signs that chart...promising that we will do our very best to hold each other accountable for the things listed on the chart. Any visitors that come into our room also sign it. As a follow up to discussing being a team, students can complete this team pennant and write about being a team player. These can be displayed around the chart and stay up all year long! Any time someone is not being a team player, refer to the Social Contract. Another fun thing to do while discussing being a team, is to make these yummy team medals! All you need is Oreos and Fruit By the Foot Roll Ups. You can find all the activities above, in my Back to School Fun pack, here.
Now that a new school year is starting, we had our “move-up Sunday” for all the student ministries. We had several Kindergarteners move up into the elementary class, and we have a huge …
Set a friendly tone in your classroom with these 30 "Get to Know You" games perfect for back to school or when welcoming a new student.
Activities with M&Ms for an ice breaker or a guided prayer time. Perfect for any kind of group! Printables include blank templates for you to customize.
Think icebreakers only apply to meetings with people you don't know? Think again.
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Games with Purpose mixes energizing, entertaining games with learning points to create an invaluable resource that will provide a fun introduction to hundreds of staple topics. There is something to suit every situation, from games needing little or no preparation or equipment, to big, memorable games that will stay with the group for a long time. The collection consists of mainly original game ideas, meeting the regular requirement for stimulating new games and icebreakers. Unlike other resources that simply seek to provide entertainment, Games with Purpose is categorised around popular topics providing youth workers with inspiration and ideas to help them to include games as a core component of their sessions, rather than just an add-on to dissipate surplus energy. Using themes from discussion starter resources The Ideas Factory and The Think Tank, this collection provides youth leaders with a complete solution - the book stands alone but by pairing these games with the discussion starters, youth leaders will have all they need to build a complete session.
The icebreaker roll and poll is great for small and large groups. Never the same game twice. Participants roll a die and answer a question. Free printable.
We've collected active icebreakers to use at the beginning of the year, after winter break, or just any old Tuesday.
I love the way we created our class agreements this year. First, students participated in a carousel activity where they went around the room to each poster. They had a pile of small post it notes that they used to respond to the questions- A Great Classmate, IS-DOES-SAYS-DOES NOT... A Terrific Teacher, IS-DOES-SAYS-DOES NOT... A Learner, IS-DOES-SAYS-DOES NOT... A Classroom of Learners, IS- LOOKS LIKE- FEELS... Then each group of 4 students looked at all of the responses and came up with their own class agreements. Finally, we put them all together and this is what they came up with. I think they did a great job!
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Too many classroom icebreakers require students to take big social risks with people they barely know. Or they don't really help students get to know each other. Or they are just plain cheesy.
Meet Your Match icebreaker is a great way to get your group connecting and sharing. Includes free printable and directions.
Get to know you dice is a unique icebreaker activity that's perfect for back to school! The set of four dice contains 47 unique get to know you questions!
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Our FREE Team Building Exercises / Icebreakers can be used nearly any time a facilitator needs to gather a group, get them together, and help them move forward.
Ideas and reflections from a fourth-year fifth grade teacher.
