Butter Block Templates

This is a great warm-up activity for sessions on diversity, equity, or human rights. It helps create awareness around immutable personal characteristics like disability, race, age, size, gender, and gender identity. It also helps develop empathy before diving into a conversation.

Discover something unique about people in your session and play detective while breaking the ice!

This theatrical story-sharing activity helps people share true stories about themselves in a joyful way, by lip-syncing a partner’s story while the other partner acts it out on mute.

This is the perfect activity for a team that finds themselves at the beginning of a new project. Everyone shares a personal story that shines a light on their ideal self. It fosters connections and contributes to team cohesion.

Participants will get to know each other in three-person breakouts thanks to a series of rapid-fire questions. This icebreaker is ideal for groups that don’t know each other (yet)!

In this exercise, you’ll split participants into four-person breakouts. Everyone will draw from one of the four corners of a whiteboard in silence for ten minutes—no talking allowed.

Give each participant a few seconds in the spotlight to vent, complain, and air their grievances about whatever's on their mind.

A picture says a thousand words. In this creative team-building activity, you will assemble collages that reflect your personality and what you do outside of work.

In this treasure hunt, participants have to stand up and search for an object that looks like a face (or use inanimate objects to create a face). This is a fun activity to start a creative workshop where people have to look at things from a new perspective.

A great exercise for building trust and psychological safety in a team. Team members have the chance to learn about each other through storytelling, deep listening and appreciation.

A short and fun activity to raise the energy of a group when they come back from a break, which works perfectly for very large groups and helps facilitators to understand the participants' energy levels.

Use this as an icebreaker or check-in activity to get participants' creative juices flowing and to create a fun atmosphere. Participants are invited to ‘dress’ themselves on a whiteboard and present their outfits to the rest of the group.

This activity is great to use for either strangers or teams that already know each other. “Who are you?” gives participants an opportunity to learn more about one another as people, not just as colleagues, and breaks the ice to connect meaningfully at the start of an online session.

In this icebreaker activity, you’ll roll virtual story dice, which will randomly generate five images. You’ll then invite one participant at a time to tell a story based on the images on the five dice.

While in breakouts, each person in the group takes up to 2 minutes to answer the icebreaker question, “What’s one thing you have been learning about lately?”

Use tiny breakout groups to increase connection, camaraderie, and participation to set your sessions up for success!

A quick icebreaker that invites everyone to share and uses creative constraints to lower the barrier of participation (and up the fun!)

A fun way to break the ice at the beginning of a session by imagining we’re all stranded on a desert island.

Hear from everyone and cultivate curiosity with this simple get-to-know-what-we-know activity that’s perfect for fostering connection in all directions.

Give your participants a chance to collect their thoughts and ideate in peace.

Invite everyone to get to know each other in smaller breakouts with a series of thoughtful questions about what lights them up these days.

Encourage everyone to get different perspectives about a topic or idea by rotating them through several rounds of conversation with each other.

In small groups, participants will take turns to answer fun reflective questions and then share back their experience with the group.

This is great for getting a bit creative and approaching potentially serious topics in a more lighthearted way!

This is a great team-building icebreaker as it encourages people to reveal something new about themselves through a fun guessing game!

Start, Stop, Continue is a great activity to use at the end of a team meeting, team retrospective, project end, or in general, during a team alignment session.

Lift up the energy in the room by getting everyone to bust a move. Create a fun and relaxed atmosphere as a group with a bit of dancing!

Get your participants primed to think outside of the box with this improv-inspired energizer.

Pump up the energy and get everyone’s imaginations going with this fun GIF icebreaker!

This icebreaker/energizer will get your participants moving and will also get them sharing things about their space and themselves along the way.

Get connections happening fast by asking simple but meaningful questions—and then throwing in a twist.

Get everyone to share what they're thinking by collecting asking them to draw it out!

This is a great check-out activity for everyone to share what they appreciated in a session. Ideal for when you have bigger groups and when you are short on time!

Rose, Bud, Thorn is a mindful way to get or give feedback. It’s a simple retrospective technique to help identify positive outcomes (Rose), opportunities (Bud), and challenges (Thorn) from your projects.

Get everyone moving and having fun with this energizer! The spotlighted participant will need to pick a dance move and everyone else will need to follow the leader and copy that move.

This is a personal favorite of AJ&Smart's CEO Jonathan Courtney. Learn something new about each other without getting too uncomfortably personal!

Get creatively sketchy with this fun drawing icebreaker! Since it’s a party game everyone’s familiar with, it’s a great way to get people feeling relaxed.

Great if you want to warm people up but also set some context for the meeting or workshop! The goal is to ease people into it in a lighthearted, low-pressure way.

Ease the group into natural conversation and prime them for creative thinking by asking fun questions.