Youth will break into groups with the each youth forming one of the letters of a keyword.

1. Christian
Icebreakers -
Splitting Youth
Into Groups:
Make a Word
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2. Introduction
Use this activity to introduce a
topic and divide the youth into
small groups or teams at the
same time.
Game Description
Youth will break into groups with
the each youth forming one of
the letters of a keyword.
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3. Game Preparation
Think about a keyword somehow
related to the topic of discussion
for your youth Bible Study or
discussion. There will be one
group member for each letter in
the keyword, so if you want
groups of 5 youth then you will
need to come up with a word
that contains 5 letters.
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4. Game Play
Here is a sample dialogue
1. “Everyone please stand
up. “
2. “I am going to give you a
special word for the day.
The word is _______. On
the count of three,
everyone shout the
word back to me! 1 2
3 Ok, now say it twice as
loud. Great! Three times
louder! What is the
Word? Great!”
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5. 3. “Next, when I give you the
signal I want everyone to
split into groups, with each
youth using his or her
body to form ONE letter of
the word. As an example,
everyone make a letter ‘A’
Great well done. If you
don’t have enough youth
to form all the letters, you
might have to be a little
more creative to spell the
word with your bodies.”
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6. 4. “Does everyone
understand? Do you
know what you need
to do? Are you ready?
Go! Spell out the word
with your bodies. And,
DON’T be the last
group to form the
word. “
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7. Variations
You can choose to have a fun
forfeit for the group that is last or
you can also make them go first
when you have the follow-up
youth discussion or activity. You
can also call out different words
of different lengths so that the
youth are forced to keep forming
and reforming groups to spell out
different words until you call out
a last word to get the youth into
the final groups of the desired
number.
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8. Take it to the Next Level
Once you have them in groups
of the desired number of
youth, you can play games,
have discussions, etc. This is a
great way to introduce a topic
because you have implanted
the keyword into the thoughts
of the youth. It also creates
some energy and makes the
awkward task of breaking up
the youth into groups so much
easier.
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