Category Archives: Icebreakers

Activities intended to help a group to begin the process of forming themselves into a team. Youth icebreakers are commonly presented as a game to warm up the group by helping the members to get to know each other.

Easter “Who am I?”

eastereggs.jpgGame Materials
Hollow Plastic Easter Eggs, paper, pencils.

Game Objective
Match the fun fact with the person

Game Play
1. Pass out an Easter Egg to each person.
2. Each participant writes one fun fact about themselves e.g. “My favorite color is red”, “My favorite movie is.”, etc. on a piece of paper and insert it into the Easter Egg.
3. Put all the Easter eggs in a bowl.
4. A leader pulls one egg out, reads out the answer, then participants try and guess who’s egg you have.
5. The participant that guesses correctly gets the egg. The person with the most eggs wins.

Get Creative Youth Ideas: "Easter Collection" ebook Easter Collection
Games and Activities in celebration of Easter.

Get more than 80 creative ideas for planning a Youth Easter celebration or Easter Party. You can immediately download my best Easter Icebreakers, games, illustrations, Easter activity ideas AND MUCH MORE in a useful ebook!

=> Tell me more about the Easter Collection

Easter Egg Teams

eastereggs.jpgMaterials

    1. Enough Easter Eggs for all participants to have 1 egg
    2. Easter Basket or a bag

Game Objective
Use Easter Eggs to separate your group into teams.

Game Preparation

  1. Determine before your event how many teams you want to have and how many people you want on each team.
  2. Choose one color of egg for each team.
  3. Make sure the remaining eggs are of equal numbers for each color.
  4. Place all the eggs you have selected into a bag and mix them up.

Game Play

  1. When participants walk into the party, allow them to reach into the bag or Easter Basket and grab one color of Egg to hold onto–not to eat!
  2. When everyone has arrived and you are ready to form teams, tell everyone to shout out their color until they find everyone else in their team.

Variations

  1. Combine this with Jelly Bean Salvation for a fun Easter Gospel presentation.
  2. Instead of real easter eggs, use hollow plastic easter eggs and combine this with Easter Egg Hunt for a meaningful lesson on the events surrounding Easter. You can also write the verses on the eggs with wax before you dye the real eggs.

Get Creative Youth Ideas: "Easter Collection" ebook Easter Collection
Games and Activities in celebration of Easter.

Get more than 80 creative ideas for planning a Youth Easter celebration or Easter Party. You can immediately download my best Easter Icebreakers, games, illustrations, Easter activity ideas AND MUCH MORE in a useful ebook!

=> Tell me more about the Easter Collection

Easter Forward and Backwards

Materials
List of actions, Chairs in a circle, one chair per person.

Game Play
1. Sit everyone in a chair and then give instructions for participants to follow. Instructions should be related to Easter.

2. If someone is in the chair you move to, just sit on his or her lap. You can stack people three or four high.

3. The first person to make it all the way around the circle wins. Have youth to take note of the chair they start in before you begin calling out situations.
Sample Phrases
“If you have on a cross, move forward 1 chair”
“If you ate an egg today move back 3 chairs”
“If you have been on an Easter Egg Hunt, move forward 2 chairs”
“If you have been to a sunrise service move forward 2 chairs.”
“If you have 30 silver coins in your pocket, move back 3 chairs.”
“If you have ridden a donkey move forward 1 chair.”
“if you have heard a live rooster crow move backward 3 chairs.”
“If you are wearing perfume move forward 1 chair.”
“If you are wearing purple move forward 1 chair.”
“If you have accepted Christ move forward 1 chair.”
“If you are wearing a pastel color move backward 1 chair.”
“If you eat the ears first from chocolate easter Bunnies move backward 1 chair.”
“If you have eaten a Hot Cross Bun move forward 1 chair.”
“If you are wearing new clothes move foreward 1 chair.”
“If you have read the Easter Story in your Bible today move forward 2 chairs.”
“If you gave someone here an Easter Card move forward 1 chair.”
“If you attended a Good Friday Service move forward 1 chair.”
“If you are wearing ribbons move backward 1 chair.”
“If you have eaten Jelly Beans today move forward 1 chair.”
“If you have thanked God today for his sacrifice on the Cross move forward 1 chair.”
ADD your own…

Get Creative Youth Ideas: "Easter Collection" ebook Easter Collection
Games and Activities in celebration of Easter.

Get more than 80 creative ideas for planning a Youth Easter celebration or Easter Party. You can immediately download my best Easter Icebreakers, games, illustrations, Easter activity ideas AND MUCH MORE in a useful ebook!

=> Tell me more about the Easter Collection

Easter Card Puzzler

Game Materials
Easter Cards

Game Objective
Youth match their pieces to the card design to find their groups in this Easter crowdbreaker.

Game Preparation
1. Select the front panels of several Easter Cards with different pictures. Use 2 identical cards for each group. Each group must have different card.
2. Cut one card of the 2 cards into pieces. The other card remains intact. The number of pieces is determined by the number of people you want to have on each team.
3. Write a question on the back of each piece. You can repeat questions. Questions should be along the lines of:

  • What is the true meaning of Easter for you?
  • What do you find most confusing about the Easter account?
  • What do you find most fascinating about the Easter account?
  • Which person in the Easter account are you most like?
  • Which person in the Easter would you most like to be?
  • How do you think you would have reacted to Christ’s arrest compared to the disciples?
  • What was your most memorable Easter? Why?
  • What is your favorite part of the easter story?

ETC..
4. Place the remaining uncut card on the wall or at each table.
5. One good idea is the keep the peices separate until needed. Once everyone has arrived, place the necessary number of peices in a bag and mix them up.
6. When each person enters the room they are given a piece of the cards that have been cut into jigsaw puzzles, with the question at the back of each.
7. Participants must ask people the question found on the puzzle piece and find the rest of the people whose pieces combine to form 1 card.
8. You may only reveal your puzzle peice after you have answered the question of each other.
9. Only once the puzzle is solved, are participants allowed to find out their respective table or location to group together by matching the picture of the puzzle with the uncut version.

Get Creative Youth Ideas: "Easter Collection" ebook Easter Collection
Games and Activities in celebration of Easter.

Get more than 80 creative ideas for planning a Youth Easter celebration or Easter Party. You can immediately download my best Easter Icebreakers, games, illustrations, Easter activity ideas AND MUCH MORE in a useful ebook!

=> Tell me more about the Easter Collection

Jelly Bean Teams

jellybeans2.jpgMaterials
Bag of Jelly Beans

Game Objective
Use Jelly Beans to separate your group into teams.

Game Preparation

  1. Determine before your event how many teams you want to have and how many people you want on each team.
  2. Choose one color of Jelly Beans for each team and remove the unwanted colors.
  3. Make sure the remaining jelly beans are of equal numbers for each color.
  4. Place all the Jelly Beans you have selected into a bag and mix them up.

If you want to prevent stained hands, wrap the jelly beans with a small piece of plastic wrap before you play.

Game Play

  1. When participants walk into the party, allow them to reach into the bag and grab one color of Jelly Bean to hold onto–not to eat!
  2. When everyone has arrived and you are ready to form teams, tell everyone to shout out their color until they find everyone else in their team.

Variations

  • Make everyone hold the Jelly Bean in their mouth to compare colors and find their team.
  • Make everyone Hold the Jelly Bean in their teeth to compare colors and find their team.

Combine this with Jelly Bean Salvation for a fun Easter Gospel presentation.

Get Creative Youth Ideas: "Easter Collection" ebook Easter Collection
Games and Activities in celebration of Easter.

Get more than 80 creative ideas for planning a Youth Easter celebration or Easter Party. You can immediately download my best Easter Icebreakers, games, illustrations, Easter activity ideas AND MUCH MORE in a useful ebook!

=> Tell me more about the Easter Collection

Barnyard

duck.jpgMaterials
A list of animals that are easily characterised by their sounds.

Crowdbreaker Description
Youth make the sounds of animals and follow the sounds to find the rest of their teammates

Preparation
Make a list of animals that are easily characterised by their sounds. Some Possibilities are:
Cows or Bulls, Tigers or Lions, Pigs, Chickens or Roosters, Donkeys, Sheep, Dogs or Wolves, Turkeys, Owls, Ducks, Snakes, Dolphins, Seals, Monkeys or Gorillas or Apes, Frogs or Toads, Elephants

Crowdbreaker Activity
Assign an animal to every person in the room making sure that the animals assigned are scattered around the room. Then shut out the lights (or have participants close their eyes) and have the participants make the animal sound assigned to them. They must then mingle around the room (in the dark) listening for the other animals of their kind and group together.

Variation
Number people off as they enter the room. Later assign animals to the numbers. Great for splitting up participants into random groups.

Get Icebreakers ebookIcebreakers Ahead: Take It To the Next Level

This 170 page resource not only provides 52 of the world’s most popular group icebreaker activities and games, but also includes lesson ideas and discussion questions to smoothly transition into conversations about the issues common to most groups.

Click here to find out how to get your hands on this incredible resource!

Matching Emotions

valentine_i_love_you.jpg
Game Materials

Pieces of paper or notecards with emotions written on them.

Some suggested emotions are: 
anger, fear, happy, nervous, bored, bitter, overwhlemed, depressed, at peace, embarassed, loved, proud, detached, shocked, hate, and finally, love.

Game Objective
Display the given emotion until you find the other members of your group.

Game Preparation
There should be at least two people that have each emotion and the total number will depend on how many people you want to have in each team.

Game Play
1. Display the emotion until you find the other members of your group.
2. When you think you have found all your partners/group have a seat.
3. Continue until all groups are seated.
4. Finally have each group strike a pose of their emotion for other teams to guess.

Application / Debrief
* What does love look like?
* What actions show love?
* How did you find your group?
* How do we find love?
* What do our emotions reveal about us?
* Are negative emotions a sin?
* Is it easier to control positive or negative emotions?
* Which emotions are the easiest to show? The most difficult?

Get Icebreakers ebookIcebreakers Ahead: Take It To the Next Level

This 170 page resource not only provides 52 of the world’s most popular group icebreaker activities and games, but also includes lesson ideas and discussion questions to smoothly transition into conversations about the issues common to most groups.

Click here to find out how to get your hands on this incredible resource!

Valentine’s Day “Who Am I?”

Game Materials
Cut out hearts, pencils.

Game Objective
Match the fun fact with the youth

Game Play
1. Pass out a heart to each youth.
2. Have each youth write their favorite color, movie, book, food, animal, etc. and name on one side of the heart.
3. Put all the hearts in a bowl.
4. A leader pulls one heart out, reads out the answers, then the youths try to guess who’s heart it is.
5. The youth that guesses correctly gets the heart. The youth with the most hearts wins.

 


Get Creative Youth Ideas: "Holiday Collection" ebook Holiday Collection
Games and Activities in Celebration of common Holidays.

Creative Holiday Ideas has over 300 pages of ideas to help you plan your next New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Halloween or Fall Festival, and Thanksgiving event. If you’ve ever wondered what you’re going to do for all these holidays and how you’re going to do it, this resource is for you.

=> Tell me more about the Holiday Collection

Valentine Candy Teams

valentine_candy_heart.jpgMaterials
Valentine candy conversation hearts (BE MINE, COOL KID, LOVER BOY, KISS ME, MY GAL, etc.)

Game Objective
Use valentine Candy Hearts to separate your group into teams.

Game Preparation
Determine before your event how many teams you want to have and how many people you want on each team. Choose one of the phrases for each team and collect the peices of candy with that phrase according to the number of people you desire to have on each team. Place all the peices you have selected into a bag and mix them up.

Game Play
1. When participants walk into the party, give them each one heart to hold onto–not to eat!
2. When everyone has arrived and you are ready to form teams, tell everyone to shout out their phrase until they find everyone else in their team. You can change the team divisions by using the colors of the valentine heart candy instead of the phrases, but you will need to check and make sure you have an equal number of each color before the game begins.

Variation
Obtain or print some Cheap valentine cards and use identical cards instead of Valentine Hearts.

 

 


Get Creative Youth Ideas: "Holiday Collection" ebook Holiday Collection
Games and Activities in Celebration of common Holidays.

Creative Holiday Ideas has over 300 pages of ideas to help you plan your next New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Halloween or Fall Festival, and Thanksgiving event. If you’ve ever wondered what you’re going to do for all these holidays and how you’re going to do it, this resource is for you.

=> Tell me more about the Holiday Collection

Valentine Candy Bingo

conversation_hearts.jpgGame Materials
1. Valentine candy conversation hearts (BE MINE, COOL KID, LOVER BOY, KISS ME, MY GAL, etc.) Buy enough candy hearts for all players to fill up all their bingo cards.

Game Preparation
Make up a variety of bingo cards–but instead of putting numbers in the squares, fill the squares with phrases from the valentine candy hearts.

Game Objective
Can you cover all the squares in your Bingo Board with the candy conversation hearts?

Game Play
1. Give players equal quantities of randomly selected candy hearts.
2. Players don’t wait for a caller, but on your signal, immediately try to cover their KISS ME squares with KISS ME candy hearts, their BE MINE squares with BE MINE hearts, etc. If they have a surplus of one kind of candy heart, they can trade with other players for hearts with phrases they need in order to cover every square on their card (or achieve a “bingo”– You decide!)
3. Players can eat the candy when the game is over.

 


Get Creative Youth Ideas: "Holiday Collection" ebook Holiday Collection
Games and Activities in Celebration of common Holidays.

Creative Holiday Ideas has over 300 pages of ideas to help you plan your next New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Halloween or Fall Festival, and Thanksgiving event. If you’ve ever wondered what you’re going to do for all these holidays and how you’re going to do it, this resource is for you.

=> Tell me more about the Holiday Collection