Ice Breakers

With lots of new girls we love to spend the first meeting getting to know each other. 

We usually invite the parents to our first week meeting as well, so they also know our rules, plan and get to meet us. We usually play one or two seperate Ice breakers with them as well, so that they meet each other and feel more comfortable calling each other if they need to carpool.

Here are a few of our favourite Ice Breaker Games:

The Candy Introductions Game
 What you need: Candies with different colours (e.g. Smarties, M&Ms, or jellybeans)

1.    Assign each colour of Candy with a topic (red: favorite hobbies, blue: favorite foods, green: favorite music etc.)

2.    Have each person grab a handful of the correct colour candy, but make sure no one eats the candies yet.

3.    If there is a whiteboard or chalkboard present, write on the board the following:

· Red – Favorite hobbies
· Green – Favorite place on earth
· Blue – Favorite memory
· Yellow -Dream job
· Orange – Wildcard (tell us anything about yourself!)
   **If you don’t have the above colors, change the above to match the candy types that you have.

4.    Have the facilitator call out a colour-topic. If the person has that coloured candy, they must give one answer per candy. (e.g. red topic: person has 3 red candies, they give 3 answers).

Two Truths and a Lie
Two Truths and a Lie is the classic icebreaker game in which one attempts to identify which of three statements is bogus.

Instructions:
Have everyone sit in a circle. Each person prepares three statements, two of which are true and one of which is a lie. In any order, the person shares the three statements to the entire group. The object of the game is to figure out which statement a lie. The rest of the group votes on each statement, and the person reveals which one is the lie.

Variation:
Two Truths and a Dream Wish. As an interesting variation to the classic Two Truths and a Lie icebreaker, people may also play a version called Two Truths and a Dream Wish. Instead of stating a lie, a person says something that is not true — yet something that they wish to be true. For example, someone that has never been to Hawaii might say: “I have visited Hawaii when I was young.” This interesting spin often leads to unexpected, fascinating results, as people often share touching wishes about their lives.
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Toilet Paper Game
Pass around a roll of toilet paper to the group and ask them to take what they need. No further explanation.
When done. Tell the group that as they go around the room, each person must tell a fact or something about themselves for each square of TP they took.


Birthday Game

Have the group stand and line up in a straight line.

After they are in line, tell them to re-arrange the line so that they are in line by their birthday. January 1 on one end and December 31 at the other end. The catch is that they must do all this without talking or writing anything down.

  ** We also use this when we want to put the girls in teams and want to break up the friend groups.

Human Bingo Game

Before the meeting, make a bingo matrix and at the top of each square put a trait or something that someone in the group might have done. 

Examples for girls' squares - I am an only child, I can play a musical instrument, I have never been on a airplane, etc.

Examples for the parents' squares - drinks tea instead of coffee, loves the color orange, has two cats, drives a hybrid, went on a cruise in the last year.

Everyone gets a copy and is asked to circulate, getting other group members to sign one square that is true of them.  Depending on size of the group you set a limit like - each person can only sign one or 2 squares.

Optional - The first person to get "bingo" wins the prize (a candy bar or some other small thing). Go over the answers so everyone gets to know the answers.