Name of Icebreaker: Biscuit Tin
Category of Icebreaker: Communication
Time Scales: 20 Minutes
Size of Group: 10 +
Materials Required: Empty Biscuit Tin, Strips of paper, stopwatch & pens
Aim of Icebreaker: To encourage participation and teamwork within the group and to enhance communication skills
Pre-Organisation: None
Process
Give each team member 6 strips of blank paper and ask them to write a different famous person on each one. They must then fold the piece of paper twice so will not fall open easily. Once they have all done this, they put their pieces of paper into the biscuit tin. You must then split the group in to teams of 5 or 6 and the teams are to sit together. One person in Team A starts. You start the stopwatch.
The first person has to pick a strip of paper out of the tin and explain to their own team who that person is without saying their name. Once their team has guessed that person correctly then they put that strip of person to the side and take out another piece and explains again who that person is. When one minute is up you shout STOP and the biscuit tin is passed to Team B. If a team member does not know who the person is on the piece of paper then they can put it back folded into the tin. They are only allowed to do this 3 x per go. You must be keep score of the number of correct guesses each team has and the winning team is the team with the highest score.
Conclusion
This exercise will energize the group and encourage communication between team members. You need to be a strict judge and that you keep an eye on when the stopwatch reaches one minute and to ensure that there is no cheating!!
Variations
You could use this game as a consolidation of the session where you write on the pieces of paper a word or a new tool that they have learnt and they have guess what you are trying to explain.
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