Icebreaker – The Birthday Game
GROUP GAMES - ICEBREAKER
BIRTHDAY GAME
An enlivening game
Very good for large groups. Doesn’t work so well for small groups.
Aims
1. An Icebreaker
2. To introduce one another?
3. Team Building
Instructions
• Form a large circle with chairs (appropriate to the number of participants). Ask the members to take a seat….anywhere, next to a friend if they so wish!).
• Inform them that this game is active, dynamic and full of fun….and it will make them laugh. Pregnant and frail people or those with disabilities should opt out….discuss it with them. Also allow anyone else (for whatever reason) to opt out too.
• Introduce the game – Get them to all stand on the chairs. Imagine the central area encased by the chairs as the sea. But this sea is full of hungry sharks. The chairs represent rocks that will protect them. The idea of the game is for the group to organize itself in such away that from one point of the circle, they are eventually in birthday order (not year, only date and month eg 22nd July). (Don’t tell them which is the starting point….let them work that out themselves). They have 15-20 minutes to do this (more for v. large groups). They must not fall into the sea!
At the End
From the starting point, ask each person to introduce themselves and state their birthdate (date and month, not year)
Were they successful?
The Process
• Look at the way the group interacts. Any quiet ones? Any loud ones? Anyone took leadership? Who opted out? (and therefore may be a bit uncomfortable or sensitive about touchy feeling things)
• It is surprising how few people take the “opt-out” option!
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