Playworks Playbook

Ice Breaker
Going on a Picnic
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Group Size: 3-25
Age Group: K-5 th grades
Length of Activity: 10-15 minutes
Developmental Goal: To learn everyone’s name, memorization, spelling, sound and letter
recognition
Skills Practiced: Following directions
Equipment Needed: None
Before You Start:
Have the whole group seated in circle.
Give an example of a food that begins with the same letters of your first name.
How to Play:
Explain to the group that they are all going on a picnic together and are all responsible for
bringing a food item.
Each person is to bring a food that begins with the first letter of their first name.
Ask for a volunteer to go first. They are to say their name and what they are bringing to the
picnic.
The next person, first introduces the person (and the person’s food choice) who just went then
her/himself and her/his food.
The third person to go introduces the first two people and then himself and so on until everyone
has gone.
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