Icebreakers
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Updated by: Member Relations Committee 2013-2014
California-Nevada-Hawaii District
August 2013
What are icebreakers?
• Icebreakers are activities that get
members moving for the meetings.
• Energizes the atmosphere.
• Allows for team building, bonding,
inclusiveness and overall interaction
with others.
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Training Topic: Icebreakers
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Pterodactyl
• Audience: Medium- Large
• Setting: Indoors or Outdoors
• Instructions: A circle is formed and everyone pulls their
upper lip over their teeth. Next they pull their arms
towards them to make “wings”. Going clockwise once
person begins and says “pterodactyl” in a way to try to
make the other person laugh. If someone wishes to
change the direction of the circle the make a
pterodactyl sound turning the rotation the other way. If
anyone laugh, they are then out.
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Training Topic: Icebreakers
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Evolve
• Audience: Large
• Setting: Indoors or outdoors
• Instructions: Everyone begins as an egg. Each time a
game of rock-paper-scissors is won, the winner “evolves”
into a chicken. They must then play against another
chicken to see who evolves into a dinosaur. If a game is
lost, the loser returns to an egg and must play against
another egg. The stages of evolution are egg, chicken,
dinosaur, and monster. The goal is to become a monster.
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Training Topic: Icebreakers
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Simon Says
• Audience: Large
• Setting: Indoors or Outdoors
• Instructions: A game that everyone’s familiar with! A
designated leader states commands and the audience
obeys if “Simon Says” was said before it. If the leader
does not say “Simon Says” and members follow the
command, they’re out.
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Training Topic: Icebreakers
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Hug Fest
• Audience: Large
• Setting: Outdoors
• Instructions: An individual shouts out a number at a time.
Members must hug the number of people that was
called out, and then sit down. A new number is called,
and the process repeats. Members who can’t form a
group of the number called are out.
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Training Topic: Icebreakers
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Catch Me If You Can
• Audience: Large
• Setting: Outdoors
• Instructions: Players should be paired up. All players divide
into two lines (facing in) shoulder to shoulder, with partners
facing each other. Participants should be given
approximately 30 seconds to look at their partners, taking in all
details about the individual. The leader then instructs the two
lines to turn and face away from the center. One or both lines
has 15-20 seconds to change something about their
appearance (i.e. change a watch to different wrist, unbutton
a button, remove a belt, etc.). The change must be discrete,
but visible to the partner. The players again turn in to face
each other and have 30 seconds to discover the physical
changes that have been made.
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Training Topic: Icebreakers
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3 Minute Mixer
• Audience: Large
• Setting: Indoors or Outdoors
• Instructions: Everyone must go around the room and speak
with at least 10 others The purpose of this exercise is to get
people to open up with one another. Give everyone a few
ideas as to which topics they might want to use to get their
conversation started. If you have some shy members in your
group, then this mini-mixer will give them the opportunity to
come out of their shell a bit. At the end of the mixer, take this
ice breaker game one step further, and gather everyone in a
group to discuss the game. Have everyone mention
something that they thought was interesting about one of the
other members, or a fact about that person that surprised
them.
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Training Topic: Icebreakers
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Just a few tips!
• Stop the icebreaker when members
are having the most fun! You want
them to remember times of fun, not
moments when interest is lost.
• Prizes are great sources of motivation.
• Encourage members to break out of
their shells and meet new people!
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Training Topic: Icebreakers
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QUESTIONS,
COMMENTS,
CONCERNS?
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Training Topic: Icebreakers
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