- Snowball Fight: Everyone in the class gets a blank piece of paper and writes down facts about themselves. They next have to wad them up in a ball and the whole class has a snowball fight. At the end each student picks up a snowball and has to figure out whose snowball they have.
- Tangled web: the class gets in a circle and one person starts by holding a ball of yarn and saying their name and one fact about them, then they throw it to another person in the class and the cycle continues until everyone is done and the yarn makes a web figure.
- Two Truths and a Lie: You tell the class two things that are true about yourself and one thing that is a lie and they have to figure out which one is the lie.
- Nickname Game: Each person gets an index card and writes down their nickname. You pass the cards back up to the teacher and the teacher then reads off the nicknames. The students in the room have to guess whose nickname is whose.
- “Me to a Tee”- Each student gets a piece of paper cut in the shape of a t-shirt, you put your name on the shirt and a word that describes you and design the rest of the shirt to show items that represent you!
- Mix It Up Day: As students enter the lunch room, they are given a table number and color that corresponds to the specific table. For that one day, students sit and mingle with others they don’t know or hang out with.
- Animal Sounds- Students are blindfolded and assigned an animal. The challenge is to use animal noises to meet up with other animals of the same species.
- Create a Time Capsule- students bring or make something they don’t mind bringing in or videotape themselves giving advice to someone
- Beach Ball Question Game- A beach ball with questions wrote on it is tossed around the classroom, whichever question your thumb lands on is the question you answer, you then toss the beach ball to someone else for them to answer a question.
- Who done it- get a bunch of people to write down a bunch of thing that they may have done but don’t tell anyone and let someone guess which person it refers to.
- True/False Quiz- you write a ten question, true/false, quiz about yourself and let the other students figure it out.
- New Names: Split into groups of 4, pick a number between 1-4, everybody comes up with two adjectives that describes them and starts with the same first letter as their name. The teacher picks a number and everybody with that number goes in front of the class together then one of the people says an adjective and their first name then the next student introduces themselves and the previous person. (Ex: Hi, I’m Humble Helen and this is Studious Sarah.)
- People BINGO: Make a BINGO grid with the free space in the middle. All the other spaces write something like “Born in another state” or “The youngest child in the family” Put the initials of the person that meets the criteria and you can only sign one square on each BINGO. The first person with all their squares filled wins the game!
- Candy Toss: Use a large bag of candy. Have your students gather in a circle and the teacher pass the bag of candy around. Tell the students they can take as many pieces of candy as they want, but they can’t eat it. Once the bag has made it around, tell the students for each piece of candy they took they have to tell a statement about themselves. Then they can eat the candy.
