Today, 1st March is St. David’s Day – St. David is the Patron Saint of Wales. As we are a Welsh company we celebrate and share a few facts about Wales and just in case you are not cold enough with  ” the Beast from the East” here’s an ice breaker game to open up your St. David’s Day team meeting!

Welsh Limericks – Ice Breaker Game for Your St. David’s Day Team Meeting!

Limericks is one of my favourite all time icebreakers and here I have given it a Welsh twist with Welsh limericks. Apparently there is a limerick for every town in the British Isles. I’ve tried to keep them clean!

You will need enough Limericks for each person to have 1 line of a limerick. Just in case you’ve forgotten what a limerick is – it’s a short poem with 5 lines. The first and second rhyme, the third and fourth rhyme and then the fifth line rhymes with the first and second. There’s a few examples you can use at the end.

Print the limericks out and cut into strips of one line each.
As it is unlikely that your participant numbers will exactly be 25, 30, 35 etc. use more limericks and give some people 2 lines.

Mix the limerick lines up and distribute randomly, one to each person.

Tell the group that they need to go and find the other 4 lines to make up their limerick. Set a time limit if you wish.

Once everyone has found his or her limerick team ask each team to
recite aloud with each person reciting his or her own line.

Hope you have fun with these – let me know how you get on!

Welsh Limericks

There was a Young Lady of Wales

Who caught a large fish without scales

When she lifted her hook

She exclaimed, ‘Only look!’

That ecstatic Young Lady of Wales.

Limerick by Edward Lear

 

2.

A wild Welshman from Tiree

One day set off on a spree

The odd thousand miles

And not a few stiles

Then home for some Welsh cakes and tea

Limerick by Alan Walks Wales

 

3.

Dylan Thomas called Swansea a tip,

Which made several Welsh people flip.

Now fifty years later,

His image is greater,

Since he can’t give us any more lip.

Author Unknown

4.

There was a young man from Swansea

Who went to work in his onesy

The boss said ‘that’s all very well,

But you are starting to smell

And the outfit is making you clumsy

Taken from The Absent Poet, Swansea

5.

There was an Old Person of Bangor,

Whose face was distorted with anger;

He tore off his boots

and subsisted on roots

That borascible Person of Bangor.

Author unknown

6.

There was a young couple from Aberystwyth

Who connected the parts that they kissed with,

And as they grew older

They also grew bolder

And connected the parts that they shook hands with.

Author unknown

Hope you have fun with these. Let me know how you get on.

Sharon Naylor is Director and founding partner of Eventus. Eventus specialises in team building activities, conference events and experiential training. She is a proponent and aficionado of ice breaker games and uses them regularly for meetings and events. She can be contacted through Eventus or by phone on 01558 668925