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Small Group Icebreakers
1. Best/Worst:
Have each person share their best and worst moments from the previous week. This icebreaker is an easy one to use at first and gives you good feedback concerning their life at the moment.
2. Most Unique:
Go around the room and have each person share something that makes them different from anyone in the group, like, "I've never left the state I was born in' or, "I am one of ten kids."
3. Two Truths and a Lie:
Have each person make three statements about themselves: two true statements and one lie. For example, "I've never broken a bone. I have five sisters. I was born in Yugoslavia" The group tries to guess which statement is the lie.
4. Personal Scavenger Hunt:
Take five minutes and find the following items in your wallet or purse: Something that ..
a. you've had a long time.
b. you're proud of
c. reveals a lot about you.
d. reminds you of a fun time
e. Concerns or worries you.
Have each person share the first item. Go around again on the second item, and again until you have gone through each one. Don't feel like you have to use the whole list because it will take too long.
5. Get To Know You Questions:
a. What do you do for fun?
b. What would be your ideal vacation?
c. What is the most memorable activity you did with your family as a child?
d. What quality do you appreciate most in a friend?
e. What is one characteristic you received from you parents that you want to keep, and one you wish you could change?
f. What is a good thing happening in your life right now? What makes it good?
g. If you knew you couldn't' fail and money was no object, what would you like to do in the next five years?
h. What would you like said at your funeral?
i. What was the scariest thing you ever had to do? In retrospect, are you glad you did it or do you have regrets?
j. What was the last thing you saw someone do that really impressed you? Why?
k. What did you wear to your last costume party?
l. If you had to eat the same food for dinner for an entire week, what would it be?
m. What ability do you wish you had that you don't? Why?
n. If money were no object, where would you like to have a vacation home?
o. What's your favorite room in your house/apt? Why?
p. What's the best or most memorable compliment you've received?
These questions can be spread out over time where everyone answers one and then use another question another week or you can put them in a hat and people answer
the one they pick.
6. M&Ms Game:
Pass a bag of M&M's around and tell everyone to take a few. Then, before they eat them ask them to share something for every M&M. For example, something about their family for every red one, something about their plans for the future for every green one, etc.
7. Most Deprived:
Buy a large bag of M&M's and give each person the same amount (try ten M&M's). Start by stating something you've never done that you think everyone else has done (thus the name "Most Deprived").
For example, you might say, "I've never had a birthday party," or some other true statement about yourself that you think everyone else has surely done. Then, everyone who has had a birthday party pays you an M&M. You pay everyone who has not had a party. Keep playing until everyone has a turn or until someone runs out of M&M's. Obviously the idea is to come up with the most M&M's and be most deprived. This activity takes longer...
8. You Write the Questions:
Give each person a 3X5 card. You pick the topic and let them write the questions. For example, you choose "friendship" as a topic, and they each write out a question for anyone in the group to answer about friendship. For example, "What do you value most in a friend?" or, "Who was your best friend growing up and why?" Then pile all the cards face down in the middle of the group and let people draw.
Topic ideas: jobs, life gals, funny stories, hobbies, family, fears, dating issues, significant relationships, relationship with God, etc.
9. House on Fire:
Ask, "Your house is on fire, and everyone is safe. You have thirty seconds to run through the house and collect three or four articles you want to save. What would you grab? Why?" After everyone has done this, the group can discuss what they learned about the things they value.
10. Make Believe:
If you could go anywhere in the world now, where would you go and why? If you could talk to anyone in the world, who would it be? Why? If you could talk to any person who has died, who would you talk to and why
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