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Engaging Icebreaker Activities Guide

The document outlines various icebreaker and dynamic activities designed to help participants get to know each other and foster integration through movement and interaction. Each activity includes specific objectives, instructions, and often incorporates songs or chants to engage participants. The activities range from simple name exchanges to more complex group dynamics that promote teamwork and competition.

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Engaging Icebreaker Activities Guide

The document outlines various icebreaker and dynamic activities designed to help participants get to know each other and foster integration through movement and interaction. Each activity includes specific objectives, instructions, and often incorporates songs or chants to engage participants. The activities range from simple name exchanges to more complex group dynamics that promote teamwork and competition.

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Dynamics

Icebreaker and/or introduction

Icebreaker activities aim to eliminate certain barriers or


paradigms (shame, fear) Specifically, an icebreaker is an activity designed
to help people get to know each other, and generally includes the exchange of names and other
information about personal background.

Name and what animal did you come in.

Objective: To know the names of the participants and integrate them for the upcoming activities.

Instructions: Names will be called out along with an animal that starts with the same initial.
name.

They haven't seen me

Objective: To know the names of the participants and integrate them for upcoming activities.

Instructions: In a circle, a rhythm should be made with the palms and the song should be indicated with the
each member will say their first and last name.

Song: They haven't seen me, they haven't known me, my name is 'José' and 'Fernández' is my last name.

One, two, three

Objective: To create movement in the participants while awakening the senses of the body.

Instructions: Participants are prepared to follow all the gestures and words that are
They will say. Movement is added to each action of the song. The quantities that are repeated are
they want to add different gestures.

Song: One, two, three, let's move the feet (the feet move), four, five, six, the arms
also (the arms move), seven, eight, nine, my body moves (everything moves)
body), and by the time I reached ten, I was already tired.

Ok, Ok, ok, ok

Objective: Awaken, encourage, create competitiveness, activate, integrate.

Instructions: The dynamism must be maintained and

Mama Duck

Objective: To integrate the participants and establish contact among them.


Instructions: A circle is organized in the shape of a train, each member must place their hands
on the shoulder of the one in front of him, a chant is performed with which each participant
they are getting more contact with each other

Song:
Here comes Mama Duck,
Everyone: "Like this, like this" (walking like ducks do)
Animator: with all their little ducks, everyone responds
Everyone: "Like this, like this, like this" (walking like ducks do)
But mama duck wants something.
Everyone: What does mama duck want?
Animator: Make a request that integrates them and allows the dynamic to continue.

I point you out

Objective: The idea of this activity is to get to know each other and integrate in a competitive manner.

Instructions: The leader must form a circle where he will position himself at the center of it,
you must point out someone in the circle and then that person will bend down (if not
loses), the person on their right and left must point at each other and the
whoever completes it first will win. The loser must say their first and last name (this may include
with a mental dance).

Tangled

Objective: To integrate the participants, get to know each other, teamwork.

Instructions: The idea is to join hands with different members, until forming a
vine, they will be instructed to form a perfect circle without letting go of each other's hands,
This activity can be done with two groups and carried out in a competitive way or just with one.

The dance of the fruits

Objetivo: Integrar, contacto, conocer, romper hielo.

Instructions: It is necessary for the leader of this activity to place everyone in a circle.

Song: This is the onion dance, I buy it in Petare and put it in the pot, if that onion
It makes you cry, grab your partner and start dancing (Grab the person next to you) You go,
tututupa, tu pa, tututupa.

Dynamic chants and repetition

Clementine
Oh clementine (repeat), it was for the little beach (repeat), she swam (repeat) and I swam with her (repeat), Oh!
(bis) Oh! (bis) Oh! (bis)

The salad dance


This is the salad dance that is in style, and that you like...

Ready...

Attention...

It is approaching...

It's already coming...

Lettuce, tomato, onion

The Sailor Dances


Dance, dance, dance, dance sailor (repeat) with the finger, finger, finger, that's how the sailor dances (repeat)

The sailor dances, dances, dances, dances (repeat) with his head, beza, beza, with his finger, finger, finger,
that’s how the sailor dances (repeat)

You
You (repeat) You Che (repeat) Che Che Cole (repeat) Che che cofisa (repeat) Dead from laughter (repeat)
Cofisa langa (bis) Raise your sleeve (bis) Shout louder (bis)
I went to the market

I went to the market to buy fish (repeat), and an ant climbed onto my shoe (repeat), I
shake and shake, shake and the ant kept going and going.

1, 2, 3
1, 2, 3 Front, Face (repeat), 1, 2, 3, hand, elbow (repeat), 1, 2, 3, leg, foot (repeat), 1, 2, 3, Miss...

Susamba
Susamba of chiripita, pepper, pintanga, pitonga pita, I want to eat a fried arepa...
Let someone repeat it.

When I went to New York


When I went to New York, to Damari's house, Damari taught me to dance the chipi chipi, and he dances
with the chipi chipi, chipi! And dance with the chipi chipi, chipi! But dance it well, one step forward
Wow! A step back! Did you see! And turning all the way around, who would dance it, you! (points to)
someone
Pichirulo
Pichirulo was a rabbit, tiny and playful, who repeats with an Echo when he sings this.
song... Pichirulo... Ulo, ulo... It was a rabbit... Nejo, nejo... Tiny... Ito, ito... And
playful... Ton, ton, that repeats... ite, ite... With an echo... Echo, echo... When it sings... Anta,
anta... This song... Cion, cion... Little parakeet, for the echo little parakeet please.

There was the skull


The skull was sitting in an armchair, her mother came and said to her (repeat), "Girl! Why
Are you so skinny? Me, skinny? Skinny, skinny, skinny.

Coffee with milk


Coffee! Coffee with milk coffee, up with the coffee maker and its coffee, with its coffee, now that we are
alone, now that they don't see us, bring out your coffee maker with the coffee with the coffee.

Applause fist and palm


Clap fist and palm (repeat) Clap I fall and turn (repeat) Clap I fall and cross (repeat)

Pepe
This is Pepe (repeat) This is Pepe's house (repeat) This is the door of Pepe's house (repeat).

Passion fruit
Parchita, Parchita, how tasty my parchita is, I want to see someone dancing my parchita.

Attention
Attention... Concentration, called by, the cell phone, I call someone, someone calls...

Hey! Hey! Hey!


Hey! Frankenstein, how does he do it? He does it like this...

At the end of the camp...


At the end of the camp, I lie, I lie, there is a puddle of clear, clear, clear water, with the
tears of someone, because someone doesn't stop... Poor someone, how sorry I feel for you, you are going to
to die from so much crying, someone doesn't love you, someone hates you, they enjoy playing with you
ball...

Praise God...
Praise God by raising your hands (repeat) Bow down before your Lord (repeat) Give your brother a hand
(repeat) and with the body make a cross (repeat) lalalalalalalalala….

Cuando un cristiano baila


When a Christian dances, dances, dances, dances (repeat) foot, foot, foot, foot, foot foot, foot…

When a Christian dances, dances, dances, dances (repeats) knee, knee, knee, knee....

Father Abraham
Father Abraham had two sons, he had two sons Father Abraham, he did not walk, nor would he laugh and
just did this (pointing at someone and singing the song with that gesture).

Let's eat the rooster

Let's eat the rooster, let's eat it (repeat) and it will never crow again, crow (repeat), cocorico cocorico
cocora (bis) Sir@ someone get that animal! Pluck its feathers and start cooking it... And
never again will it make cocori, cocora. Sir@ someone we already have it! Let's make a sancocho and
Let's go inside.

Attention dynamics
Animator: Attention! Participants: Yes sir
Butter...
Michael Jackson...
Celia Cruz...
Wendy...
Mac Donald...
I call my girlfriend... Hello!

I caught my boyfriend...

Ice...
Lights, camera, action...
Distribution dynamics

The ship is sinking.


Instructions: It is necessary to be in a circle.

Song: The ship sinks my dear captain (repeat), captain, captain raise the tide, captain,
Captain lower the tide (repeat). And to keep the ship from sinking, form groups of 4...

Look for your other half.

Instructions: For this activity you will need to have prepared some cards with synonyms and
antonyms, proverbs split in two, concepts and definitions, operations and results, etc.
Students must meet with their corresponding partner. If you want the group to be more
great, continue the dynamic and group them proposing more general categories. With this
dynamic you can use to work on some content related to the subject!
The farm.
Instructions: An animal is mentioned in the ear, which the members will then have to search for.
through the sound of the animal to each equal to them.
Divide by numbers
Instructions: music is played and everyone starts to dance, then it is indicated to...
number with which they must meet.

Dynamics of competition

Instructions: It is necessary to form two groups (one with women and the other with)
men).

Song Women: Don't go, don't go to the sea, to the sea, that you can, that you can
forget, forget, do not leave, do not abandon me, for without you I will not live, I will not live.

Song Men: Don't cry my little chest, don't cry that I will return, I will return, and when I come back
Train, my breast, my breast I will write to you, I will write to you.

Put on the lid

Instructions: It is necessary to create two groups (one with women and the other with the
men)

Women shout: Take the cap off the bottle

Men shout: Put the cap on the bottle.

Dynamic Work

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