Browsing Category:Games & Icebreakers

swimming-pool-bowling
This is a fun swimming pool game that is great for groups of 6 to 20 students. All you need is some sort of flotation device (an innertube, air mattress, or inflatable raft). Here’s how you play.Get everybody into the shallow end, about waist-deep water. Choose one person to be the “bowler” and one person to be the “bowling...
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bottle
If done correctly, this is like a “covert operations” version of Steal The Bacon. You’ll need a CLEAR plastic 2 liter bottle...and a swimming poool. Make sure the Coke/Mountain Dew/etc wrapper is peeled off the bottle! Here’s what you do.The game leader fills the 2 liter all the way to the top (with pool water) and puts the cap...
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chicken
This is a swimming pool classic.In Chicken, you need at least 4 players, but it can be as many as you want as long as it’s an even number. Have all the players pair up, with one sitting on the shoulders of the other. (Duh! Make sure that girls are ONLY sitting on the shoulders of other girls!!)When the...
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hair-donts
This is a quick and fun game you can play if you want to draw some attention to your awesome adult leaders. Unfortunately for them, they’re on the receiving end of a bad hairstyle! Here’s what you do.Make sure you have 4 towels; 4 chairs; 4 containers hair gel/wax, and 4 brushes or combs. It’s pretty simple; the 4...
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scrabble-scramble
If you are looking for a fun game that EVERYBODY can play, this is it!Before the game begins…Use a computer and printer to print letters on to sheets of paper (approximately 6 per sheet.) Then cut out each letter and put them in a plastic bag (like a Ziploc). Every bag needs to have the EXACT same letters. You...
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ice-breaker
This is the quintessential ice breaker!Store up empty milk jugs (1 gallon size works best). You will need one jug for every team you plan on having compete in the game. 2-4 teams work great…but only allow 2 people to be on each team!The day before the game is to be played, clean out the milk jugs and fill...
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the-cat-in-the-hat
Preparation: Notecards, pens, and a big hatAs students enter, give them a notecard and have them write down a question on a note card. The question can be about anything…from movies to quantum physics. (If you have a smaller group, get them to write down 2-3 questions, making sure that only one question is written per card.) When they are done...
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