Fun Interactive Icebreaker Game For Groups - Jelly Bean Trade
Fun Interactive Icebreaker Game For Groups - Jelly Bean Trade is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Distribute ten randomly picked jelly beans or various coloured sweets to each person.
- When ready, ask your group to mix and mingle with one another with a view to trading different coloured jelly beans, one for one.
- Everyone aims to collect a set of ten jelly beans of the same colour.
- The first person to achieve this goal within, say, three minutes, wins.
- Upon identifying the winner(s) invite everyone to eat their treats.
- Jelly Bean Trade Interactive icebreaker game to energise & build rapport.
- Jelly Bean Trade combines the sweet incentive of a treat with the excitement of friendly competition that makes it a light-hearted activity that appeals to all ages.
- Perfect for conferences, meetings and social gatherings seeking an interactive icebreaker game that stimulates conversation naturally.
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Prompts to use +
When ready, ask your group to mix and mingle with one another with a view to trading different coloured jelly beans, one for one.
Everyone aims to collect a set of ten jelly beans of the same colour.
Upon identifying the winner(s) invite everyone to eat their treats.
Jelly Bean Trade Interactive icebreaker game to energise & build rapport.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Fun Interactive Icebreaker Game For Groups - Jelly Bean Trade. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: When ready, ask your group to mix and mingle with one another with a view to trading different coloured jelly beans, one for one.; Everyone aims to collect a set of ten jelly beans of the same colour.; Upon identifying the winner(s) invite everyone to eat their treats.; . Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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