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ICE BREAKER SESSION

1. Jack’s Back Face to Face / Side to Side / Hand Shake / Back to Back & Jack’s
Back - Change the partner
2. Fire on the Fire on the mountain -- RUN - RUN – RUN. Voice tone changes
mountain -High tone / Medium tone / Soft / Low tone. Make odd number
group of 5 or 7 or to get somebody out like Musical Chairs
3. Appalu Appalu Uppalu (Leader Misguides)
Uppalu Appalu - hands on the knee; Uppalu - hands on the cheek
4. Buzz All multiples of No. 3, you have to say Buzz for eg. 3, 6, 9, 12, 15,
18, 21, 24, 27, 30.
5. Simple Simple Simon say’s “Claps your hands” everybody claps. Action
Simon only for Simple Simon says. Use another name and action. Those
Says who follow this are out. Action should be as per what Simple Simon
says and not other names like Harry says or Jack says.
6. Thumbs Up Count. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. At no.3, hand point out over the shoulders
in the right or left direction and the counting continues from 4 till 6.
The 7th person will not count the number but do the Thumbs Up
sign. Those who do not follow at number 3 direction and silence at
7 are out. This game should be conducted from slow to a faster
pace.
7. S. T. Count People sit in a circle. Each participant has to call out a number from
1-20 only those whose nos begin with an S or T should put up their
right hands instead of calling out the number.
E.g. 1, 2 ( hand up ) 3 ( hand up ) 4, 5, 6 ( hand up ) those who do
wrong actions are out . start with a trial round.
8. Do you love The volunteer goes to one person seated in the circle and says
me ? ,”Do you love me”. IF ‘ YES ’ go to the next person. IF ‘ NO ’ give
your reason why No? Eg : because you are wearing a watch.
Then all wearing watches have to change their places.
9. The Wind And carried away…. All those wearing Watches, Chains, Ties,
came…. Rings etc. Change places
10. Double clap Give a running number / name to the whole group. Each one must
remember his or her number. Anyone starts - First say your own
number and any other number. Then clap twice ( 2 claps only ).
Then the other number starts.
11. Check what Friends, (Handshake) Strangers, (Back to back) Guests (Namaste)
you are? All keep moving in the circle, the leader orders to stop! All stop and
follow any of the 3 actions. Then the leader closes his eyes and
calls out one action. All those in that action are out.
12. Five actions Give 5 actions in order. 1. Praying hands 2. Playing flute 3.
Boogie Boogie 4. Hands crossed 5. Salute.
The leader comes around to any one and shows any one the five
actions and that individual is supposed to show immediately the
consecutive action. Example: 3 - 4; 5 - 1etc.
13 Triple action Give 3 actions in order 1. Praying hands 2. Crossed hands 3.
. Satan actions .When the first action is being done by the leader the
group follows the second action & so on if the players fail to do this
they are out.
14 Poor Pussy All sit in a circle, one person is a pussy goes and sits on any
. persons lap and cries meow meow .The other person has to pat the
pussy on the head and say poor pussy – if you smile you take
pussy’s place.
15 Pass smile All seated in a circle. 1st person smiles or laughs then passes the
. smile/ laugh and becomes serious, the same holds good with the
next.. The one who is not serious is out.
16 Kacha Papad Kacha papad, pakka papad is said alternatively by all in the circle if
. mistake –out (fast pace)
17 Cram up the Draw a circle & let the players walk along with the music. As the
. circle music stops the players enter the circle. The ones left out of the
circle are out of the game.
18 Bombing the Place –Mumbai, Calcutta, Bangalore, Madras.
. city Music begins. All move when music stops choose a city. A chit is
picked up, the city is bombed and all in the bombed city are out.
This continues till the winning 3.
19 Ping Pong All sit in a circle, when the leader says ping you have to name the
. person to your right & and when he says pong you have to name
the person to your left. The one who fails to name the person is
out..
20 Fruit salad Name a particular group with the name of a fruit and when the
. leader calls out a name of a fruit the group having that name
exchange places & if fruit salad is called out all change places. The
person who doesn’t finds a place leads the game.
21 Human Chits are provided with 9 boxes. Each person is supposed to write
. housie the first name in a box (totally 9 different names in each chit).
Housie begins with names. Each name called out is cancelled.
Prizes could be given for the 3 lines and full house.
22. Auto- You have to write your autobiography & then read out. Make it
biography personal. Write it creatively.
23 Rotten Sit in a circle. Leader says “I threw a tomato on …… (name any
Tomato one person sitting in the circle). The concerned person and his
neighbours will instinctively cover their faces. The concerned
person will cover his face with both his hands. His neigbour on the
right will face towards the right and cover with face with the left
hand. His neigbour on the left will turn towards the left and cover
his face with the right hand.
24. Simple We are supposed to do only what Simple Simon tells us.
simon says If Simple Simon says ‘sit’- then we sit
If Simple Simon says ‘stand’- then we stand
If I say ‘sit’, then you must not sit, because I have said it and not
Simple Simon.
All those out will honestly sit on the ground, whereas the others will
continue with the game.

25. Dhoom If I say Dhoom then you tell me the name of the person on the right
If I say Dham, then you tell me the name of the person on the left
Dham If you fail to tell me the name/ or are not sure of the name, then you
are out and you continue the game.
P.S. There are two persons asking the names at the same time, at
different places.
The youngsters should shout out the name loud and strong for
everyone to hear.

26. BATATA! We start counting from one to five. At the multiples of five we shout
BATATA and NOT the number.
Example as at 5, 10,15,20…
If someone is out, the game again starts with 1…

27. A, E, I, O, U A particular action is given to each vowel (as shown to you)

When a word is spelt, the action is shown instead of the letter of the
alphabet.
E.g.: DAD, MUM, CAT, TABLE, CHAIR, SPOON, TAP, SIT…