Download DIY exercise: Childhood Icebreaker Exercise

Get to know your colleagues better with questions about childhood

Icebreaker exercise: 50 questions about childhood with 2 questions on each card. Download, print and use. © LEADERS WAREHOUSE. Please note that people may not want to talk about their childhood as much. There can be many reasons for this. This should be respected and everyone is of course allowed to say PASS if they encounter a question they do not want to answer.

The exercise is for the whole team at once. Everyone comes out onto the floor. Everyone is given a card with 2 questions on it. Everyone starts talking about one of the 2 questions on each card. After each conversation, you swap cards and find a new partner. You get to know your colleagues well when you know about their childhood. Where did they grow up? What memories do they have from school? What did they play with?

This exercise is easy to put in the shopping cart, download and print. Then it is ready to distribute. 1 A6 card for each participant. 2 questions are formulated on each card. The participants, whom you ask to meet in pairs, must ask each other 1 question each in their short meeting. When they have both listened to each other's answers, exchange cards and then it is time to find a new partner and repeat the process.

After the exercise itself, which takes approx. 7 to 10 minutes, you can ask follow-up questions:

What does it mean for us, as a team, to talk about our childhood?

Is it nice or unpleasant to talk about?

'A problem shared is a problem halved' they say. Is there anything to that? You could also say: 'Shared happiness is double happiness'.

Is it OK to talk about childhood at work?

Is it OK to talk about childhood while we work?