Young-Person-Led Icebreaker (Bournemouth)

Each week at the start of Bournemouth group the young people do an ice breaker activity, this helps new young people to get to know everyone as joining a new group where you don't know anyone can be daunting.

This week one of our young people led this ice breaker! She adapted the game Fired to enable all the young people to be involved regardless of their age or capabilities. Everyone joined in and all the young people and youth workers really enjoyed it!

If you would like to play the game yourself, here are the rules.

Everyone to sit in a circle apart from someone in the middle.

The person in the middle asks everyone to close their eyes and will go round the circle tapping people on the arm to make them aware of their roles.

1 tap - civilian

2 taps - Firers (you need 3 of these)

3 taps-detective (you need 1 of these)

Person in the middle will ask everyone to close their eyes, then will ask for the firers to open their eyes. They will then ask them to pick who they want to fire. The firers need to agree on someone. They will all be asked to close their eyes again.

The detective will be asked to open their eyes. They will then be asked who they would like to check is a firer, they will be given a thumbs up if they are correct or a thumbs down if they are wrong.

Everyone will be asked to open their eyes and the person in the middle will tell the person that was chosen by the firers that they have been fired.

The group will then discuss and try guess who is a firer , they will be asked to vote, the person with the most votes will be out.

The detective will know who the firers are and will try to sway the others votes without telling them who it is.

The firers will try to sway the votes away from themselves.

If there are more firers left in the circle than there are civilians, the firers have won, if there is less the civilians have won.