Make the first day of school a success with fun ice breakers for kids that students love! Download and print teaching resources created by our teacher team or gain access to digital ice breakers to engage students and help classmates with the getting to know you phase of back to school.
What Is an Ice Breaker?
Ice breakers (or icebreakers — both spellings are correct) are games that help "break the ice" for a newly formed group of people. In an elementary school setting, ice breakers "warm up" shy students and help new classmates get acquainted, learning one another's names, finding common points of interest, and more.
Each of the digital and printable ice breakers included in this collection has been created by a teacher to be classroom ready!
Kick off a new school year with a “Put a Finger Down” Getting to Know You classroom icebreaker.
Encourage communication and cooperation with this set of 10 team-building games.
Help your students get to know each other with this set of 20 icebreaker games.
A fun game to play at the beginning of the year to explore appropriate and inappropriate behaviors.
Play a back-to-school dice game for students to get to know their classmates.
Teach your social studies class about being a good citizen with a game of Citizenship Charades!
Help your students learn more about their new classmates with this fun speaking and listening activity!
Use this teacher-created resource to end the school year the same way it began... with a good old-fashioned scavenger hunt!
Give your students a quick brain break with this set of 19 whole-class games.
Get to know your new class with this child-friendly version of "Never Have I Ever...".
Get to know your new students with this child-friendly version of the popular game, "Never Have I Ever."
Hone in on your students' speaking and listening skills with this barrier activity.
A set of 6 icebreaker games that can be played virtually.
Use QR codes to get to know your new classmates at the start of a new school year.
A non-contact greeting song to use at the beginning of the day.
A fun, getting-to-know-you game to play in the first days of a new school year.
Start the school year movin' and sharin' with this fun icebreaker activity.
A fun, getting-to-know-you game to play in the first days of a new school year.
A set of 20 animal and color matchup cards to use in a variety of ways.
A fun icebreaker activity to use at the beginning of a new school year.
A worksheet to use when getting to know students.
A getting to know you activity to use at the beginning of the year or when working on team building.
A game to play at the beginning of the year for students to get to know each other.
Kick off a new school year with a getting-to-know-you icebreaker game!
Would You Rather use this set of 31 question cards or eat a can of worms?