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Honestly, I would do ice breakers with my young adult leadership team even when they all know each other. It just helps them to connect on a deeper level and learn something new about each other. I have gone through and written over 30 faith-based icebreakers that you can use.
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I Am Blessed
I Am Blessedis an excellent icebreaker game for an adult group of Christians get to know each other better. It gives participants the chance to share something about their lives. 1. Start with a volunteer and have them give their name and a reason he or she feels blessed. 2. Continue around the room, asking each person to say the same thing. 3. The only rule is that each person should have a new and different blessing.
Autographs
A Christian icebreaker game that is fun and teaches adult players something about the members of the group, Autographs takes a bit of preparation. Once you have your sheet created, you can use it multiple times. Create an autograph sheet with lines and 15 to 20 different statements that some of the people in the room can do, but probably not most of them. Leave a line below each statement for an autograph. Some examples are, “Recite the books in the Old Testament.” or “Sing the third stanza t...
Crazy Poker
Begin this run Christian icebreaker with the players seated in a circle. Give each person a card from a deck without letting seeing the card and place it on the forehead, allowing all to see. The players can then advise each other to change cards. The goal is to advise those with a big cards (i.e. King or Ace) to change to another card, because the person with the smallest card loses. Each time a person loses, they are out. The winner is the last player left – the one with the smallest card.
Snowball Fight
This Christian teen activity needs to take place in a large enclosed area or outside. You will need several small soft balls. You may need to wrap the ball in tap to make it heavy enough to fly through the air. Divide you group into two teams and give each team half of the balls. Divide the area into two halves with tap or spray the grass with a paint line. If you are in a gym, simply have each team on half the court. Each team must stay on their side. Each team throws balls at the other team...
Paperclip Links
A fun icebreaker that starts as the teens first enter the room for the evening, this game is guaranteed to get the group warmed up and mingling. You will need a great number of paperclips for this icebreaker game, so be ready. Give each teen ten (or more!) paperclips when they arrive. Tell the first three they are the team leaders and cannot connect with each other. The goal is to get the teens to join their group and create the largest chain of paperclips. The team with longest chain of pape...
Bible Basketball
This is an excellent icebreaker for Bible review. 1. Have all the teens put their chairs into a square with the same number of chairs on each side. Put a large plastic trashcan or wastepaper basket in the middle of the square. 2. The leader can either think of a Bible related question or have some available on a sheet of paper prepared in advance. 3. As you ask a question, the first teen to raise their hand gets to answer it. 4. If they are correct, they get to shoot a basketball into the “ba...
Buzz Bomb Balloon
1. To begin this Christian children’s icebreaker game, have the children stand in a large circle. 2. Give each child a balloon that is not inflated. 3. Place a target in the middle of the circle – a large piece of colored construction works well or you can simple put a circle on the floor with masking tape. 4. The children should be about ten feet away from the target. 5. Have each child blow up the balloon and hold it shut. 6. Either give the children different colors or write their initials...
Frisbee Toss
A simple, but fun icebreaker game for children, you will need two hula hoops and six Frisbees. You can either suspend the hula hoops from the ceiling or have some volunteer adults hold them up in the air. Divide your group into teams and have each player take a turn with three chances to toss the Frisbee through the hula hoop. The team with the most points at the end of a specific time wins.
Cotton Ball Scoop
A game suitable for teams or for using with two volunteers, this children’s church ice breaker provides a great deal of fun. You will need two large bowls filled with cotton, two empty bowls, two blindfolds, and two spoons. The children are given 30 seconds to transfer cotton balls from the full bowl to an empty bowl. Since the cotton balls are so light, many times the participants think they have cotton balls in their spoons when they are really empty. If you use it as a team game, the winni...
Bible Scavenger Hunt
Divide your group into teams and make sure each team member has a Bible. Give the name of a Bible person, place, or thing and see which team is able to find the scriptural reference first. If you wish, you can allow the participants to use a concordance if their Bible has one. You can make some of them easy and some hard and vary difficulty based upon the age and knowledge of your group. This icebreaker can also be used at the beginning and end of a Bible class for lesson review.
If I Were
One great icebreaker game that works well with Christian groups is If I Were. The group simply takes turns saying statements that begin with “If I were . . .” For example, “If I were a flower, I would be a daisy, because it is simple and pretty.” Some other categories are, “If I were a . . . food, animal, President, song, movie, book, car, airline, city, country, etc.” For younger children, it might be best to give the prompt and let them finish the statement. Sometimes you get some really fu...
Pass the Present
An excellent game for any age, this Christian icebreaker game is fun and has a prize at the end. Have the players either sit or stand in a circle. You will need a paper wrapped package and a way to play music. The goal of the game is not to have the present when the music stops. To prepare for this fun game, you need to choose an age appropriate prize and wrap it in multiple layers of paper. You can use as many layers as you wish. The more layers of paper you have, the longer the game will la...
Questions are also an excellent way to break the ice and we have created a list of Christian icebreaker questions for you to use. 1. If you could change places with a Bible character, whom would you choose? Why? 2. If you could add two commandments to the existing ten, what would they be? 3. If you could break one of the commandments, which would i...
Sep 1, 2017 · A good icebreaker can be identified as one that is: Easy to answer. Everyone has an opinion or story of how they’d answer. Non-threatening. No one is pressured to reveal too much about themselves or give an answer of which they’re not certain. Fun to answer.
- Number Cruncher. Materials Needed: Tape, Tape measure. How it Works: Before your group meets, tape two long parallel lines on the floor. The lines should be no more than 18 inches away from each other, but no less than 12 inches and as long as you need for your group.
- If you were a ___________ Materials Needed: Screen and projector, slide with different objects based on the season or have similar theme. How It Works
- Interrogation. Materials Needed: Pads of paper, pens, time, lists of questions, chairs. How It Works: Split the group into teams. You can do two teams or multiple.
- Sound Effects. Materials Needed: List of objects for which students can make a sound effect. How It Works: Split the group into teams. Size depends on your group size and person preference.
May 16, 2022 · I also encourage our adult leaders to play along so that they get to know the youth and the youth get to know them. Here are 4 Easy, Low Prep Icebreakers. What’s Your Favorite… Pterodactyl; Three is a Crowd; Blanket Name Game; Here are 4 Still Easy, but Some Prep Needed Ice Breakers. Number Cruncher; If you were a _____ Interrogation; Sound ...
Icebreaker questions are an effective tool that can help ease tension, get people to talk with each other, and create a fun and relaxing environment. Furthermore, ask these great questions never to have another awkward silence again! Running Ice Breakers.
May 10, 2012 · Young Adult Ministry; Youth & Culture; Select Page. Why Do Ice Breakers? Posted by Sean Cramer | May 10, 2012 | Activities & Games, ...
