“Speed Dating” – Listening Ice Breaker

Here is something that we did for our Girl’s Pajama Movie Night.  I am calling this an ice breaker because it is a great activity if there are a lot of guests during that night or if people in your group don’t know each other that well.  You can also use this with small groups if there are 8 people or more.

- Make a list of open ended questions.  Because our event was a movie night, I chose questions about movies and celebrities.  For example – “If your life were a movie – would it be a drama, action, comedy or musical?  Why?”  etc…

- Divide your group into two and ask them to make two rows and face each other.

- Have a leader stand on a chair or an a higher platform at one end to read out the questions.  The leader should warn the participants that they will be quizzed afterward.

- When the question is read out, each person introduces themselves to the person in front of them and answers the question.

- Each question should have at leas 30 seconds to 1 minute of discussion time before you call out “time!” and ask everyone to take one step to the right to switch partners.

- At the end of the list of questions, have everyone sit down.  The questions will be read out again – this time, the first person to run up to the leader and can recall another person’s name and their answer to that question wins a prize.

I had a prize bag for the night full of $1-$2 gifts for the winners to pick out of.

The objective of this ice breaker is to teach everyone to listen to each other.  It also means a lot to some people when they know what have been heard – and their answer was called out by someone else.  Hopefully it will also create connections and relationships within your group.

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