Acquaintance games are always employed when a group must get to know each other at the beginning. This is usually thecase at the beginning of a new group meeting or on the first evening of a children’s or youth’s camp.
Free instructions to many useful icebreakers, group games, and team building activities!
On the leaders command, the couples must assume positions to show the character and they must also make the sounds of that character. This game is similar to Rock-Paper-Scissors.
2. A blind pair
Players turn, walk towards each other and meet up while blindfolded.
When the music stops, the leader will announce two body positions.
4. Line up
The groups must line up in correct order.
5. Zipp-Zapp
The chosen player must name the player on his left (right).
6. Shoe Pile
Everyone takes off one shoe and throws it onto a pile in the middle of the group. Then everyone will choose a shoe and try to find the player who owns the shoe.
7. Stand up
Two (or more) players sit back to back with legs stretched out in front of them. They must try to stand up without using their arms.
The members of the group greet each other using different greetings rituals.
The group sits or stands in a circle. A ball is thrown to someone whose name is called out at the same time.
10. Backwards names
Your own name is said backwards.
11. Name crossword
Each letter of your name is represented by a question where the first letter of the answer gives the different letters of the name.
12. Making gestures
Like “I went to the market” but with gestures and movements.
13. Bang
Out of the game is either: the person who ducked too slowly.
14. Pip squeak
The blind person in the middle must guess who made the noise.
15. Introduction – Starter questions
A few questions which can be posed during an introductory round.
Each player takes a few numbers of M & M’s or Smarties out of a bag. After all have taken from the bag, each person tells one thing about themselves for each piece of candy taken.
17. Who is it?
Everyone writes down 4-5 personal characteristics about themselves. The group then guesses who the characteristics belong to.
A ball of yarn is thrown randomly from one person to the next while posing a question with each throw.
19. Newspaper Slaps
The player in the middle must “tap” the person named with the newspaper before that person can call out another person’s name.
20. 3 wishes, 3 truths, 3 important things
Each person writes down 3 wishes. Afterwards the group guesses whose wish is whose.
21. Formation line
The entire group must stand on a board. On command, they line up by alphabet, height or age in the right order without speaking.
22. Hands
Hands behind a stretched over a blanket screen must be recognised.
The group estimates themselves (total age, height, distance to school.)
Everyone snaps a balloon and brings it to the person whose name is on the balloon.
25. Secret calls
Each group agrees on a special signal. All members are blindfolded and must try to find each other.
26. Blindly sorted
All members of the group are blindfolded and have the challenge of standing in a row according to size, age, etc.
27. Animals find their partner
Each blindfolded member of the group must now try to find his partner by making animal sounds.
28. Spoon grab
A blindfolded member of the group must try to recognise another group member with a table spoon.
29. Who knows all of the group members by name?
On the command, the members of staff let the blanket fall. Whoever names the person sitting opposite them first has won.
Volunteers stretch out their arms or legs out from under a blanket.
31. I love…
This is a good game to learn about the others’ hobbies and such.
Each group member receives a task. An exact opposite task exists for each task.
33. Family Maier, Meier, Mayer and Meyer
A game for allocating and finding groups with initial communication difficulties.
34. Like to like
A game for allocating groups with noises.
35. Lipstick kiss or footprint
Every player makes a fingerprint, a lipstick kiss or a shoe print on his paper. The group guesses whose paper belongs to whom.
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