Just the facts
This is intended as an icebreaker before a training, but can also work as a general icebreaker with 3 or more people.
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Team building activities and teamwork tools from Teampedia
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Story Around the Circle
Creating a story together can be merely for fun, or it can help the team imagine its future or recall its past.
Friendly Flyers
This is an exercise to build up relational and communication skills. While creating paper flyers in teams, you learn about your group members one-on-one as you build paper planes with them. Afterwards, you get to know more about the rest of your group when you play a personality-matching guessing activity.
Trust Walk
Trust Walk is a great activity for workshop openings, especially if the workshop aims to build trust and understanding between participants. It challenges the participants to give up control over a situation and put their "fate" into other's hands.
Name Juggling
Name Juggling is another variation of a try-to-learn-everyone's-name but the game guarantees high energy level as well as some strategic thinking.
Celebrity Party
Great activity to help people warm up in a new environment.
Back-2-Back Drawing
This is a communication exercise when participants in pairs have to use only verbal communication to help their pair to draw a specific picture. There are several variations of the exercise detailed in the instructions.
Giants, wizards, elves
It's a running around energiser which surely help participants to get their energy level higher.
Empires
This activity could work between sessions as an energiser or an icebreaker. It builds on participants' memory and communication.
Go!
This exercise creates an opportunity to talk about team accountability and communication and paying attention to what's not happening (as opposed to what is happening) by having the group move fluidly as one person leaves a place and another enters their spot.
River Crossing
The river crossing game is one of many simple games that gives your group the chance to sharpen their problem-solving skills while having a bit of fun. Participants need to cross an imaginary river as a team and they need to get all members of the group safely there.