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Two Truths and A Lie: Icebreakers

This document provides descriptions of several icebreaker activities that can be used to help groups get to know each other: - Two Truths and a Lie, where each person shares two truths about themselves and one lie for others to guess. - ID Guessing Game, where people write two things they've done and one they haven't on index cards for others to match to the person. - Icebreaker Questions, a list of 20 fun questions like favorite foods or hobbies that allow people to express their personalities. - People Poems, where students create acrostic poems using the letters in their names. - Personal Boxes, where students fill containers with items representing themselves and

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Two Truths and A Lie: Icebreakers

This document provides descriptions of several icebreaker activities that can be used to help groups get to know each other: - Two Truths and a Lie, where each person shares two truths about themselves and one lie for others to guess. - ID Guessing Game, where people write two things they've done and one they haven't on index cards for others to match to the person. - Icebreaker Questions, a list of 20 fun questions like favorite foods or hobbies that allow people to express their personalities. - People Poems, where students create acrostic poems using the letters in their names. - Personal Boxes, where students fill containers with items representing themselves and

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Icebreakers…

Two Truths and a Lie


Summary: A good get-to-know-you icebreaker in which each person says two truths and one lie.
The goal is to figure out which statement is the lie.

Ages: All. Recommended # of people: 6-10. Messiness factor: No Sweat. Materials Required:
None. Recommended Setting: Indoors.

ID Guessing Game
Summary: An icebreaker in which people write down two things that they’ve done and one thing
that they haven’t on an index card. The goal is to correctly guess who wrote each card.

Ages: All. Recommended # of people: 8-15. Messiness factor: No sweat. Materials required:
Several pens and index cards. Recommended setting: Indoors.

Icebreaker Questions is simply a list of 20 great questions that you can ask people to help them
feel more part of a group or team.  These questions are fun and non-threatening.  You can use
them as an icebreaker for meetings or classrooms, written on notecards and adapted for other
games, or simply as a fun activity to help people get to know each other better.

Instructions for Icebreaker Questions

A great way to help people open up is to ask them fun questions that allow them to express their
personality or interesting things about them.  Here is a list of twenty safe, useful icebreaker
questions to help break the ice:

1. If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get?
2. If you were an animal, what would you be and why?
3. What is one goal you’d like to accomplish during your lifetime?
4. When you were little, who was your favorite super hero and why?
5. Who is your hero? (a parent, a celebrity, an influential person in one’s life)
6. What’s your favorite thing to do in the summer?
7. If they made a movie of your life, what would it be about and which actor would you
want to play you?
8. If you were an ice cream flavor, which one would you be and why?
9. What’s your favorite cartoon character, and why?
10.  If you could visit any place in the world, where would you choose to go and why
11. What’s the ideal dream job for you?
12. Are you a morning or night person?
13. What are your favorite hobbies?
14. What are your pet peeves or interesting things about you that you dislike?
15. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever eaten?
16. Name one of your favorite things about someone in your family.
17. Tell us about a unique or quirky habit of yours.
18. If you had to describe yourself using three words, it would be…
19. If someone made a movie of your life would it be a drama, a comedy, a romantic-
comedy, action film, or science fiction?
20. If I could be anybody besides myself, I would be…

21. People Poems


Have each child use the letters in his or her name to create an acrostic poem. For example, Bill
could write
22. Big
Intelligent
Laughing
Loving.

Personal Boxes
In this activity, each student selects a container of a reasonable size that represents some aspect
of his or her personality or personal interests, such as a football helmet or a saucepan. Ask
students to fill that object with other items that represent themselves -- for example, family
photos, CDs, dirty socks, a ballet shoe -- and bring their containers back to school. Students can
use the objects in the containers as props for three-minute presentations about themselves. The
teacher who provided this idea suggests that you model the activity and encourage creativity by
going first -- it's important for students to see you as human too! She included in her container a
wooden spoon because she loves to cook, a jar of dirt because she loves to garden, her son's
first cowboy boot, a poem she wrote, a rock from Italy because she loves to travel, and so on.
You'll learn much about each student with this activity, and it will create a bond among
students. As each student gives a presentation, you might write a brief thank-you note that
mentions something specific about the presentation so that each student can take home a
special note to share with parents. It might take a few days to give every student the
opportunity to share.

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