Collection of ice breaking activities for classroom use 3

Icebreakers are easy and short games to lead students concentrate in the classroom. You can start a lesson with ice breaking activities. This is useful to make students ready to receive lesson.

1. Hand pistol

This is suitable to young children. First, you point your hand with fore finger pointed like holding a pistol. Walk around the classroom. Shoot “ DOOR” to a student that does not concentrate. Ask a funny question to him/ her. You can ask “ how many legs does a goat have?” Find other students! When class becomes crowded and entertained stop and start to open today’s lesson.

2. Meditation

It is good for teen or adult students. You can set the meditation affirmation “ close your eyes, sit straightly, take a deep breath, breath in, breath out, feel the wind blows, relax!” you have any ideas to lead a meditation. This is very comforting when you want to start a class at the end of the school day.

3. Write words

Write on the white board a sentence for example” My mom is cooking chicken soup” ask all student to write down how many words they can write from the alphabets available in the sentence. They may will write “ nine, pass, go, sing, etc” give compliment or reward to students who can write the most words. Don’t forget to use stop watch to limit the time!

4. If I have one billion dollars\

This is an interesting game. Ask your students to take a note and write five things they will do if they win a prize one billion dollars. Check the answers of each student. Give reward or appreciation to students who will spend the money wisely. Most my students spend the money for shopping and buying they need but only few of them who save the money in a bank and give a charity. You can see various lists and it is fun to know your students lists.

5. Linking sentence

You must say a sentence. Then your students continue to make a sentence from the last word. For example ; you say “ My friend is from Italy” choose one student randomly to go on with the word “Italy” he my say “ Italy is a big country” then choose another student to make a sentence from the word “ country”. You must use time to create spontaneous response. You sometime will find funny sentence from your student.

6. Solving problem

This is a group task. Make a group of four students. Ask the entire group to find solution to a problem. Give one problem to all groups then match the answers of each group. For example “ you can ask your students to solve the problem what to do if they are flying a plane. Suddenly the plane lands on a desert island where there is no electricity, telephone or communication service. Give 15 minutes to write down in a note and read all the group solution in front of the class.

7. Write some words

Students must write some words from a certain letter to start. You decide the first letter, for example; you write a word “ B”. All students must write words that start with letter “B” They may write “ BOOK, BALL, BANANA, BED, BAD and other words. They will explore their memory. You must limit the time so the children will focus and try to do the task as quick as possible. After the time is up, you must check your students’ work. Give reword to the students who can write the most words. You also must check the spelling.

8. Blind painter

Children must draw a face. They must follow the rules to draw the face. Here are the rules. You must make sure that all children close their eyes. All children must follow your instruction. You give instruction to draw parts of the face randomly for example ; first you ask “ draw the left ear, draw the nose, draw the mouth, until children draw all parts of the face. You will see the result. There will be children who draw nose on the forehead and mouth on the hair. That could be fun but remember to make sure all children eyes closed.

9. No yes or no

Children must answer your questions but they are not allowed to answer with “yes or no”. This is the illustration. You ask :” Do you have brother?” ask a student to answer. He / she may respond quickly “ yes/ no” but the answer is wrong in this game. He/ she must answer “ I have no brother”. You can ask another question like “ Do you like cats?” the correct answer is “ I like them or I don’t like them” choose the students randomly to answer the question. One of them will be slipped, they will answer “ yes/ no” a student who answer “ yes/ no” will get a funny punishment. You can ask him/ her to sing or act out in front of the class. Remember to write list of questions you want to ask.

10. Massage

Line up in a circle. You can divide the class into groups. Each group lines up in a circle. Put each of the children’s hand on their shoulders. You give instruction to massage gently. This is good for relaxing. This can be practiced for adult students. Let the students massage their friends for one or two minutes. You can also join in this game.