Break the ice with a late summer snowball fight!
If you’re looking for group projects that let students make the classroom welcoming, bring your new class together, and help you remember their names, here are icebreakers for students to get to know each other while having fun and working in a team.
- Who Am I Snowball Fight: Have students write a mini-bio with three facts about themselves but without a name. Crumple the paper, and throw them around, like a snowball fight. Be sure they don’t tear! Call time, grab the closest snowball, and figure out whose it is.
- Glue and Hang Names: Cut out big colored letters. Students can glue their names together and onto the walls for parents to see. They can also hang the letters by running a thread through punched holes in the names if they prefer.
- Biography Posters: This one’s similar to the snowball fight. Have students decorate posters with some information about their families and hobbies. Then, hang them up to personalize the classroom for the year.
- Educational Games and Videos: Team-building games and educational videos can be played and watched together to foster a tight-knit classroom. Available online, these are great ways for students to improve strategic thinking and problem-solving skills while becoming close friends.
Feel free to get creative! Copy and paste these ideas directly into your classroom to help students make friends and ease back into the school year, or make some changes and do something unique. Whatever the case, we at Smile and Learn hope these tips were useful. If you’re looking for more classroom inspiration for any point in the year, click HERE to read the rest of our blogs.
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