Vol. 5, Issue 1 | Winter 2007

Honey, I Love You

This is a great icebreaker exercise to loosen up people in a group.

This exercise can be completed with any size group.

There is no age limit.

Set-up

Seat participants in a circle. Optional: bag of props.

The object of this exercise is to identify someone in the circle, approach him or her, and say, “Honey, I love you, but I just can’t make you laugh” with the purpose of making them laugh.
As the facilitator, you will normally go first.
The person to whom you are saying this has to look at you and work at keeping a straight face.
If, you haven’t succeeded in making the person laugh after three tries, pick another target.
If the person laughs or even smiles, he or she moves into the middle of the circle and selects a target.
You can do just about anything to get your targets to laugh, except touch them. Funny faces, strange voices, props, etc. are all fair game.
Once a person has been made to laugh, he or she can no longer be a target.
The game continues until the last person either breaks down and laughs or withstands the final three attempts to get him or her to laugh.