Icebreaker

Childhood and school questions

The teacher you feared, the cartoon theme you can still sing, the thing you hid from your parents.

  1. What did you eat the second you got home from school?
  2. School lunch every single day, or a packed lunch from home every single day?
  3. Hands up if you wrote a book report on a book you never actually finished.
  4. Message a family member asking what you were like at age six, then read the reply out loud.
  5. Which cartoon theme song can you still sing all the way through?
  6. Grow up as a kid everyone recognised off the telly, or grow up totally unremarkable?
  7. Hands up if you broke something at home and simply never mentioned it.
  8. Act out a toy you owned as a kid using only gestures. No sounds, no words.
  9. What job were you given in class, and did you take it seriously?
  10. Be the one who could make the whole class laugh, or the one with the best grades?
  11. Hands up if you've accidentally called a teacher mum or dad in front of everyone.
  12. Draw the job you wanted as a kid and let everyone guess what it is.
  13. What club did you sign up for, and did you last more than a month?
  14. Grow up going to a tiny school in the countryside, or a huge one in the middle of a city?
  15. Hands up if you were ever put in charge of a class animal or plant.
  16. You have thirty seconds to draw your old school building. We're judging it.
  17. What did you collect as a kid, and do you know where it ended up?
  18. Front row right under the teacher's nose all year, or the very back corner all year?
  19. Hands up if you made it all the way to school with something on backwards.
  20. High-five everyone here one by one, saying the name of your first best friend each time.
  21. Whose homework did you copy, and did they ever find out?
  22. Every long holiday at your grandparents' place, or every holiday somewhere you'd never been?
  23. Hands up if you invented a stomach ache to get out of something you hated.
  24. Act out your most convincing excuse for turning up without your homework.
  25. What made you cry at school over something that sounds tiny now?
  26. Homework the night before, or scrambling through it at six in the morning?
  27. Hands up if a teacher ever had to wake you up in the middle of a lesson.
  28. Talk exactly the way you did as a kid until your next turn comes round.
  29. How did you act around the person you liked at school? Be honest, it was probably weird.
  30. Keep the one thing you were brilliant at as a kid, or keep the friends you had back then?