Utility Ball

 

Resources Required: one utility ball or reasonable facsimile.

 

This game is great as an icebreaker in order to learn other people’s names and interests.

 

Have the children sit in a circle with feet apart (touching toes with their neighbours).  Give the ball to one child; he/she holds the ball and state his/her name and something she likes and then rolls it across to another. 

 

Continue until everybody has a turn.

 

Variations:

 

• Have the next person repeat what the person who rolled them the ball name was and what they liked.

 

• Have the person with the ball repeat the names of the people who had the ball before them.

 

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