When have you ever had enough, or just the right, group activities? Never! This section is devoted to finding and presenting three types of activities: Icebreakers, Warm-ups, and Energizers.
Icebreakers are activities focused on kicking off or starting a group either when they first come together or at the beginning of an event. They need not be related to an agenda item and usually are not.
2 Truths & 1 Lie Intro
This is a fun introductory icebreaker to help people get to know each other.
Categories
This is an interactive Get-to-Know-You activity that has participants moving from and forming new groups.
Current Event Shop
This is an opening activity where the group reads and shares newspaper stories relating each to the event.
Name Game
This is an opening activity where individuals make fun of their own name by creating a new name for themselves from a list.
Networking Bingo
This is fun opening activity where individuals meet each other trying to learn about each other.
Warm-Ups are focused activities related to and intended to prepare the group for the following agenda item.
All My Neighbors
This is a fun moving around energizer that pumps up the energy and loosens people up.
A to Z Activity
This is a creative review activity used with a group to review a course, workshop, or the results, of an event.
Barnga
This is a simple card game activity intended to heighten a groups intercultural awareness.
Broken Squares
This is a fun activity used to tes a groups cooperation skills.
Criminal Activity
This is a fun, highly interactive energizer played with a deck of cards.
Culture Shock
This is an activity that engages the group in a cultural interaction where four distinctly different cultures collide and frustrate.
Current Event Shop
This is an opening activity where the group reads and shares newspaper stories and tries to relate each to the reason they are meeting.
Gordian Knot
This is a fun activity that promotes team-based problem solving and communications.
Have You Ever?
This is a fun stand up, interactive high-5 energizer. It's one that can be used to learn about a group.
IQ Test 1
An IQ Test is a fun transition activity used when transitioning from break to work or as a creativity booster.
IQ Test 2
An IQ Test is a fun transition activity used when transitioning from break to work or as a creativity booster.
IQ Test 3
An IQ Test is a fun transition activity used when transitioning from break to work or as a creativity booster.
It's Murder!
This is a fun activity run cocurrently with another mundane table work.
Tower Building
This is a fun activity in which small groups compete to design and build the tallest tower. Great for Teambuilding and learning about each other especially when used with an group related instrument like DiSC, CARE, or MBTI.
Energizers are energy building activities that can be used any time the facilitator feels the groups energy needs boosting.
Jeopardy Review
Following the hit television show this activity is designed to provide answers in several categories to which the participants must ask the questions.
Match the Description
This is a fun activity where individuals try to match words to their strange description.
Pigonality Profile
This is an energizer that has participants draw a picture of a pig then the facilitator tells them something about themselves based on how they drew it.
Power Grab
Thi is an activity intended to show the effect of power on a group.
Signaure Game
This is fun, no-physical impact, activity that gets people out of their chairs and talking to others in the room (similar to Networking Bingo).
Team Juggle
This is a fun and intense process based activity where the team has to pass (juggle) items around the group with an increasing level of complexity.
Team Rap
This is a fun team-building activity where the group creates and performs a rap song relating to the event.
What is Your Character
This is a fun assessment instrument that categories everyones personality by 6 cartoon characters.
Broken Squares