Getting to Know You Small Group Icebreaker Craft

This Getting to Know You Small Group Icebreaker Craft is a great way to help students establish themselves within small groups, table groups, or as a whole class. It’s a fun way for students to ask each other get-to-know your questions in a low-stress craftivity.

This folding person craftivity asks students to reflect on what they can do to effectively work with other students. It makes a great back-to-school activity, but can be used anytime during the year for when students gather in a new group.

It makes a great display for back-to-school night as well as a great reference point when small groups are learning to effectively work together.

What is included in the getting to know you craftivity

Included in the craftivity is a page with three people and a page with a variety of “heads”.  The heads page has blank faces where students can fill in their own faces.

Students are asked to share what makes them feel appreciated, what helps them get along in groups and what listening looks or sounds like, in addition to something they love to do and an “I feel ___ when ____” statement.

How to use the Getting to Know You Craftivity

Included in the resource are “before the activity” suggestions with anchor chart samples and graphic organizers that can be used whole class or within interactive notebooks.

Since this activity asks students to reflect on their ability to work within a group at a deeper level, doing some activities prior to the craftivity will help students be successful with the project. Plus, if you keep the anchor charts up during the year, they can become tools to use when troubleshooting group dynamics.

Simply print the number of pages students need to work on the craftivity within a small group or individually. Within the resource are suggestions for how to use it with a small group.  There are are a variety of ways to have students share the discussion points on the folding dolls.

You can use this craftivity within table groups as students sit down with a new group of students or even as a whole class if you tape all of the dolls together in one line.

How to Assemble the Getting to know you Folding Dolls

To cut out the craftivity, I find it easier to cut the outside of dolls before folding and cut the inside, between the arms, after folding.  While the dolls line up on the page, folding the dolls may make them misalign.

There are three dolls on each page. If students are in groups of more than three, leave a little bit of space on one side of the dolls on the left and right side of the page and tape them together. Trim the dolls as necessary after taping to provide continuity.

How to Purchase the Craftivity

The Getting to Know You Craftivity is available on Teachers Pay Teachers.

More Back to School Ideas

Are you looking for more back to school ideas? Check out the posts below. Included is one post about 20 Teachers-Inspired Ideas for the First Day of School.