Christian icebreakers welcoming new youth to the group

Christian
Icebreakers -
Welcoming
New Youth to
the Group
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Whether it is a new person
joining a youth club,
school or church group, or
just a group of youth
meeting together for the
first time, icebreakers
provide opportunities for
youth to let down their
guards and get to know
each other.

Fall is a time of new beginnings for
many at school.
Whenever a new person joins the
youth group or when a group of
people come together for the first
time, there is often a period of unease
and tension. It is not because anyone
has done anything wrong or because
people are mean – it is simply because
most of us have our guard up when
we meet someone new for the first
time. To make new persons feel at
ease and relax the participants in a
newly formed group, there are many
games and activities that can be used
as icebreakers and integration
techniques.

Whether it is a new person joining
a youth club, school or church
group, or just a group of youth
meeting together for the first time,
the icebreakers must come as early
as possible during the meeting. This
will make each person feel like an
integral part of the group,
encourage active participation of all
during activities and thus make the
accomplishment of the goals of the
group much easier.
So what are some of these
icebreakers?

Round Repeat
Round repeat is a good example.
Here, the persons in the youth
group stand in a circle. The first
person to be chosen is asked to say
their name. This should be loud
enough for everyone else to hear.
Then the second person says the
first person’s name and their own
name. The next person gives the
names of the two people in front
and their own name.

This goes on until the last
participant who may be required
to say the names of every single
person in the group. This is a
great way of learning the names.
If the group is large, the last
persons in the circle will have a
difficult time recalling all the
names. But the amount of fun
during the game will have
effectively broken any
psychological walls between the
youth.

Zip and Zap
Zip and Zap is another great game
to break the ice and learn people’s
names. The group sits in a circle.
One person is chosen to sit in the
centre of a circle as the first leader
of the game. The simple rules of
the game are then explained – Zip
is right and Zap is left. The leader
then points to anyone in the circle
and says ‘Zip!’. The person pointed
at gives the name of the person
who is sitting on his or her right. If
the leader says ‘Zap!’, the person
gives the name of the person
sitting on his left.

When the leader points at someone
and says ‘Zip-Zap!’, the youth sitting
on the immediate left and right of
the person must switch places. If
the call is ‘Zip-Zip!’, the person
pointed at must say the name of the
person seated two spaces away to
their right. Same will apply to ‘Zap-
Zap!’ only this time it will be their
left. Anyone who is unable to
correctly recall a name has to leave
the circle perimeter and sit at the
centre. The game continues until
the last person is eliminated or until
the last people remaining can
remember the names of every
person still on the circle.

Artistic Collaboration
A game that can be used for
integration or even team building in
a group of youth is artistic
collaboration. The youth are
grouped in sets of six or so persons.
The six persons are assigned a table
and each person is given a paper
and a different color of crayon. They
are then given the go ahead to start
drawing a picture. When the
coordinator shouts ‘change!’, all
stand to move and sit on the chair
on their right. They then continue
drawing someone else’s picture.
This goes on until everyone comes
back to their original sitting position
and looks at the finished picture!

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