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Two sets of hands holding a set of wooden toy blocks as part interactive connection game Ice-Breakers

Ice-Breakers

Interactive connection game to build teamwork & coordination.

  • Highly interactive
  • Fosters collaboration
  • Inspires resiliency & laughter
  • Healthy competition
  • Partner activity

Step-by-Step Instructions

This interactive connection game delivers valuable benefits for groups seeking to develop teamwork, coordination and social skills. Ice-Breakers promotes adaptability and relationship-building as participants form new partnerships throughout the activity. Perfect for team-building workshops, classroom settings and corporate training programs looking for energetic activities with minimal equipment. The cooperative competition format creates engagement while developing fine motor control and interpersonal awareness. Participants experience the benefits of working together while navigating changing social dynamics in a fun, supportive environment.

Ice-Breakers – Interactive Connection Game
  1. Designate a clear, open space.
  2. Give each person two toy wooden (or plastic) blocks.
  3. Form random pairs.
  4. Invite each partnership to suspend the four blocks between the tips of each of their index fingers.
  5. When ready, ask everyone to move about the area while also, using their free index fingers, attempting to break the block bridges of any other pair.
  6. Whenever the blocks belonging to a pair fall or get knocked down, each of them is permitted to pick up (any) two blocks on the floor, and then seek a new partner to connect with (re-form block bridge) and continue playing.
  7. Only pairs with a fully connected block bridge are entitled to break the bridges of other pairs.
  8. Encourage this process of forming and re-forming new partnerships many times.
  9. Continue play for several minutes.

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Comments (2)

  1. Bryn Dunlop

    Hi Mark,
    this activity also works well with cut up pool noodles. If you choose the colour red and cut 5 cm discs, which you then half into semi-circles you have…. ‘watermelon’!

    The difference with this prop is that you have one piece of watermelon between the index fingers of 2 partners with the outside hands used to fire excess watermelon at others…..like mini fruit cannons!

    Of course this cannon works best if you’ve practiced before…so play a game of mexican wave ‘popcorn’ first with the group….by flicking the outside edges of the watermelon with your thumb and forefinger.
    Quick and easy fun….

    Bryn

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    • Mark Collard

      Yes, I too have used ‘finger snaps’ ( as I call them) for this activity, Bryn. And without the mass of a wooden toy block, you can normally build much longer bridges 🙂 Thanks for sharing.

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