Icebreaker Ideas

Icebreakers are fun ways to bond your organization or get your meeting off to a great start. Here are some ideas from the Office of Student Activities:

Two truths and a lie

If you were a(n) ________, what kind of _______ would you be and why?

• candy
• animal
• super hero
• clothing item
• hair style
• course offered at LC
• weather system or natural phenomenon
• dance move
• New Year’s resolutions
• Human knot
• Roses & thorns/happies & crappies/temperature check/highs & lows
• What would you do with a million dollars?
• What did you do over the weekend/holiday break?
• Name, year, position in group, field of study, & underwear color
• Spectrum (ask a question: meat or potatoes? cats or dogs? fly or drive? shaken or stirred? etc. and members move to one side of the room to indicate their choice)
• Why did you join this group?
• Porn star/movie star/Star Wars/etc. name (formulas can be found online)
• Fill in a Mad Lib together
• Chubby Bunny
• Name your favorite __________
• Take some M&Ms or jellybeans; for every one you take, say something about yourself
• Spell out your name with your rear end
• Brief, one-song dance party
• Human scavenger hunt (i.e. find someone born in the same month, who’s been to Europe, prefers fruit to candy, wears contacts, broken an arm, etc.)
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