ICEBREAKERS

Get your group off on the right foot with an icebreaker. Icebreakers are especially good for new groups or to kick off a new series. Choose from the lists below or get creative and make your own.

Here’s a great resource with many more fun, creative ideas: 40 Icebreakers for Small Groups

BASIC QUESTIONS

  1. What’s your name and where are you from?
  2. What’s your dream job?
  3. What’s your favorite food?
  4. What’s your favorite animal?
  5. What’s your favorite movie?
  6. What’s your favorite band (or solo artist)?
  7. What’s the hardest thing you have ever done?
  8. What’s the grossest thing you’ve ever eaten?
  9. What’s your most proud moment?
  10. What’s the best thing that happened to you this year?

“IF YOU COULD…”

  1. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
  2. If you could talk to anyone in the world, who would it be?
  3. If you could wish one thing to come true this year, what would it be?
  4. If you could live in any period of history, when would it be?
  5. If you could change anything about yourself, what would it be?
  6. If you could be someone else, who would you be?
  7. If you could have any question answered, what would it be?
  8. If you could do your dream job 10 years from now, what would it be?
  9. If you HAD to give up one of your senses (hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting) which would it be and why?
  10. If you were an animal, what would you be and why?

“WOULD YOU RATHER…”

  1. Have a beach holiday or a mountain holiday?
  2. Be invisible or be able to read minds?
  3. Be hairy all over or completely bald?
  4. Be the most popular or the smartest person you know?
  5. Go without television or fast food for the rest of your life?
  6. Have permanent diarrhoea or permanent constipation?
  7. Not hear or not see?
  8. Eliminate hunger and disease or be able to bring lasting world peace?
  9. Be three inches taller or three inches shorter?
  10. Wrestle a lion or fight a shark?