
by Ashok Kumar Rath
(India)
Group Size - Medium (5-20)
Group Abilities - All Abilities
Icebreaker Purpose - Fun
Preparation - none
Materials - 1 pen and piece of writing paper per person, 2 small containers
Time - 5 to 10 minutes
The facilitator tells all individual participants to write on separate pieces of paper a small question starting with the word "WHY..." The question may be anything like "Why is the sky is blue?"
Similarly instruct on a separate piece of paper, another sentence starting with "BECAUSE ..." This may or may not be a logical answer to his question. It may be anything like "Because the country is poor."
Collect all the Why questions and Because answers, and put them in separate containers.
At the end, call participants to take one Why question out of the container and read it out. Another participant takes a Because answer and reads it out.
All participants must take a turn in reading out a Why question and Because answer. This ice breaker game can give some fun results.