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ICE BREAKER LINKS and BOOKS

Ice breakers are quick training or presentation techniques that help to accomplish one of the following:

1.  Helps people get acquainted.

2.  Helps people feel more comfortable with the training environment.

3.  Helps to give people a preview of the training.

4.  Teaches a skill.

5.  Encourages people to have fun and be relaxed.

Team Activities Downloads Index:

Training and Team Building Activities

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Balloons  Group activities that can be done with balloons. Promotes gentle, fun physical movement, people getting to know one another, trust and working together

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Diversity Bingo

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Meet My Orange

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People Hunt

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The Tallest Tower

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Predictions

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The Company You Keep

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Lost on the Moon

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Keypunch  A powerful teambuilding exercise for medium sized groups. Participants must touch the randomly placed numbers, in sequence, within a given time frame in multiple attempts.

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People Hunt

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Pipeline/Gutterball  A fast paced activity that can be modified to suit age and setting. Each participant gets one gutter or half pipe tubing. The object is to move a marble or assorted size balls using lengths of guttering from point A to point B without dropping them.

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Tower Build

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Warp Speed Group Juggle  A team building exercise based on the icebreaker "Group Juggle". Groups are challenged to juggle as fast as possible. Invite group to "tender" a time they can deliver.

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Helium Stick  Deceptively simple teamwork activity. Form two lines facing each other. Lay a long, thin rod on group's index fingers. Goal: Lower to ground. Reality: It goes up!

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Toxic Waste  A popular, engaging small group activity.  Equipped with a bungee cord and rope, a group must work out how to transport a bucket of "Toxic Waste" and tip it into the neutralization bucket.  Can be used to highlight almost any aspect of teamwork or leadership.

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Mine Field  Objects are scattered in an indoor or outdoor place. In pairs, one person verbally guides his/her partner, a blindfolded person, through the minefield.

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Multi-Way Tug-of-War   Fun, physically demanding, competitive team activity.  Several teams pull against each other, requiring communication and tactics as well as strength to out maneuver and win.

bullet Great Egg Drop  Small groups design an egg package to save an egg from breaking when dropped. Plus a 30 second jingle to sell their package. Followed by the Great Egg Drop-Off.
bullet  2 truths and a lie  People write down two truths about themselves and a lie. Then introduce the three "facts" to the rest of the group who tries to guess which one is a lie.
bullet Fear in a Hat     Group members write personal fears anonymously on pieces of paper which are collected. Then each person randomly selects and reads someone else's fear to the group and explains how the person might feel. Fosters interpersonal empathy.
 

 

 

 

 

 

201 Icebreakers

 

Big Book of Icebreakers

 

Encyclopedia of Icebreakers

 

The Complete Games Trainers Play Volumes 1 and 2

 

Advanced Games for Trainers:
 

High Impact Tools and Activities for Strategic Planning

Feeding the Zircon Gorilla and other Team Building Activities

 

ASTD Trainers Sourcebook

 

Indoor Outdoor Team Building Games for Trainers

 

Great Session Openers Closers and Energizer

 

Wilderdom.com Icebreakers and Games
Icebreaker - paint a picture
The Top 10 Icebreakers for Meetings and Training Seminars 
Society of Women Engineers Icebreakers
Susquehanna University Icebreakers 
Interactive Experiential Training: Eight Breakthrough Strategies
Breaking Down Inhibitions
Ice Breakers - Exercises To Get Things Started!
Lothlorien.com Ice Breaker Ideas  
Ultimate Wedding Games & Activities: ICE BREAKERS  Includes “how long is your carrot” and “where’s my underwear” 
AMAnet:  It’s a puzzlement
ESL Cafes Idea Cookbook Icebreakers  
BusinessFundamentals.com:  Tips & Tidbits on how & why to use ice breakers
Results Through Training Icebreakers site
Training Report "Grab them by their minds in that crucial first minute." August/September 1998 by Janis Windsor  
www.accel-team.com/publications/
Adulted:  Educational Icebreakers  
Spice of the month sizzling session starters 
Fun Attic Icebreaker Games
OK this is just an Icebreaker ship (nothing to do with training)  but it is a cool site. http://www.irizar.org/index.html
The Idea Zone Icebreakers and Warmups
AdultEd (About.com)  Icebreakers
Business Training Works Icebreakers - 23 page pdf download
Work 911 Icebreaker Site
Icebreaker Energizers
PDF Choosing Icebreakers with a Purpose
Squarewheels simulations and games
AdultEd (About.com)  http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/library/blicebreaker1.htm
AdultEd (About.com)  http://adulted.about.com/education/adulted/library/blicebreaker2.htm
Reproline tools for trainers Icebreakers http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/english/5tools/5icebreak/icebreak2.htm
JV Creativity  Free Icebreakers For Your Workshop
World Union of Jewish Students   
The Training Depot 10 Favorite Ice Breakers
Entelechy's Famous Icebreakers, Energizers, and Activity e-Guide
10 Ways to break the ice.
Icebreakers and Warm-Ups
Don Clark's Big Dog's Leadership Icebreakers

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