Fun Ice Breaker Questions for Meetings

Use Ice Breaker Questions As Conversation Starters During Team Building

This illustration shows fun ice breakers for your next meeting including "If you could only choose on vacation destination, where would you pack and why?", "If you were stranded on a desert island, what three items would you want to have with you?", "If you work up tomorrow as an animal, what animal would you choose to be and why?", and "If you could meet any historical figure, who would you choose and why?"

Josh Seong @ The Balance

 

Are you looking for laughter-generating, funny ice breakers? Some ice breakers are fun and funny, and their goal is to help your participants enjoy meeting each other. Other times, you might want to tie the ice breaker into the topic of the meeting. However, you have a different purpose when you use fun and funny ice breakers to start out your meeting or team building session.

You can use these questions as funny ice breakers. Your participants will appreciate starting out their meeting with laughter in a comfortable setting. They'll enjoy the chance to share something about themselves, that is not too personal, in a comfortable, supportive environment.

The best part about these fun ice breakers? You supply the question. Your participants who are naturally funny and communicative provide all of the rest. Their interpersonal communication draws laughter and fun to their discussion and responses to these fun questions.

Using Fun Ice Breakers With Groups

In groups of people who don't work together, these fun ice breaker questions are effective in breaking through the normal coolness that can exist between people before they know each other. Laughter is a terrific equalizer and allows warm interaction to emerge quickly during meetings, training, and team-building sessions.

When recommending ice breakers, it is often suggested that you create an ice breaker that will lead participants into the topic of the meeting or training session. But, these fun questions are an exception to that rule. They don't necessarily have to lead your participants into the topic of the training or the meeting.

Sometimes, you just want your ice breaker to generate happy feelings and camaraderie. Here are guidelines on how to facilitate and use these ice breaker questions for your meetings, training sessions, and any other work event where you'd like employees to build camaraderie. You will soon become proficient at dreaming up a fun question on your own.

Sample Fun Ice Breaker Questions

Consider these sample questions for your meetings and possibly even use some of the ideas to develop your own ice breakers. Some questions are designed just for fun, but others have suggestions for how they might be used to launch into a broader conversation.

  • If you were a vegetable, what vegetable would you be?
  • If you woke up tomorrow as an animal, what animal would you choose to be and why? (While an amusing ice breaker, this fun question can also lead to discussions about the valuable traits different animals possess and how those traits might relate to people.)
  • If you could live anywhere on this planet and take everything that you love with you, where would you choose to live? (This ice breaker question can lead to further discussion about the types of experiences people value.)
  • What favorite color are you and how does being that color make you feel? (For any work that involves any type of design, this can be a fun ice breaker question to ask to discuss color options.)
  • If you could choose an imaginary friend, who would you choose and why?
  • If you could sit on a bench in a beautiful woods, who would you like sitting next to you on the bench and why?
  • Are you sunrise, daylight, twilight, or night? Please share why you picked your time of day.
  • If you could choose your age forever, what age would you choose and why? (Discussions about the types of experiences people have at different ages can be valuable, especially in an industry like marketing.)
  • If you could be in the movie of your choice, what movie would you choose and what character would you play? Why?
  • If you could meet any historical figure, who would you choose and why?
  • If you were a city, which city would you choose to be and why?
  • What are your 10 favorite foods?
  • If you were a candy bar, which candy bar would you be? Share why.
  • If you were to change your name, what name would you adopt going forward? Why?
  • Are you spring, summer, fall, or winter? Please share why.
  • If you were stranded on a desert island, what three items would you want to have with you? (This is another ice breaker question that can generate a discussion about the types of things people value and why.)
  • Share a description of your favorite material object that you already own? (Are there common traits among the different people in the conversation? If so, this ice breaker question can be a starting point for a discussion about product design.)
  • What item that you don't have already, would you most like to own? This is another ice breaker question that can be valuable in either product development or product design.)
  • If you could only choose one vacation destination where would you pick and why?
  • If you were to create a slogan for your life, what would the slogan be? (The thought process that goes into this ice breaker question is much the same as the thought process that goes into developing any kind of slogan.)
  • Pick something out of your pocket or purse and share with the group why it's important to you.
  • If you could meet any living person for a chat over a shared dinner, who would you pick and why?
  • If you awoke one day as a flower, what flower would you choose to be?
  • If you could choose one hobby that now seems out of your reach either financially or time-wise, what hobby would you take up and why? (This ice breaker question can lead to a productive conversation about the types of things valued by different demographics.)
  • Thinking about the architecture of houses, what type of architecture is the best fit for you? What appeals to you about your choice?
  • Think of one word that describes X (whatever topic is at hand) and share it with the group. (For example, in a session about change management, ask your participants, what is the one word they first thought of when they thought of the word, change? Responses will range from chaos to confusion to cool.)

The Bottom Line

Use these fun ice breaker questions and ones that you generate yourself by knowing your audience and what will amuse your participants. You can't go wrong with ice breaker fun questions. You can trust that when you use questions like these, your participants will generate the fun.