Break the ice and warm up your group

at meetings, parties, studies, or any other youth group event -- with one of these 230 crowd breakers and mixers! Mixers . . . Make it fun for kids to get acquainted! Lots of creative ways for a group of strangers or classmates to circulate and learn a lot about each other in a little time.

Meeting-Opening Contests

All you need usually are two or three brave souls to jump feet first into a crazy competition while the group watches -- like Greasepuff (page 55) or Foot Signing (page 112).

Musical Crowd Breakers

Okay, so when your group sings, they remind you of water buffaloes with strep throat. At least they''ll enjoy these engaging musical openers. All you usually need is a tape deck or CD player.

Quizzes & Word Games

At last -- quizzes with absolutely no academic consequences, but loaded with crowd-breaking potential (and lots of laughs, too).

If you''re a youth worker or recreation director in a church, school, club, or camp -- Crowd Breakers & Mixers is your storehouse of proven, youth-group tested ideas.