Icebreaker games ideas

Write some fun questions onto pieces of paper or card. Arrange these on the floor face down. Sit your guests in a circle around the cards. Next, throw a ball to each other round the circle.

Each time a person catches the ball they pick up a card from the centre of the circle. They then give their name, say what the question is and give their answer.

Examples of fun questions are:

Make a list of family oriented questions. You could include questions like:

If you were stuck on a desert island with only three things, what would they be?
Who is your favourite Superhero or heroine?
Name a celebrity you would like to have dinner with.

This game can be played with people of all ages providing the questions are tailored to suit.

This fun icebreaker game is great for finding out details about the backgrounds and lifestyles of your guests.

Using a dack of playing cards, fan them out on a table or on the floor face down. Have each guest select a card.

The person must share the same number of things about themselves as the number on the playing card they have chosen. Kings, Queens, Jacks and Aces all have values of 5.

Each guest choses a date and writes it on a piece of paper, giving only the month and year. eg. July 2000.

Place these folded pieces of paper into a hat and have a guest draw one out. They then give their name and state what they were doing at that particular time in their life.

Each guest gets a chance to pick from the hat and share somethings about themselves.

Have your guests seated before passing around a roll of toilet paper. Tell them to help themselves to as much as they need, but don't tell them what they will be needing it for. That shall remain a mystery until they have separated their sheets of toilet paper and counted them up.

Guests must share a fact about themselves for every sheet of toilet paper they have taken. People who have taken a generous amount will need to get thinking!