• Encourage teens to interact by playing icebreaker games at a party.happy teens image by Marzanna Syncerz from <a href='http://www.fotolia.com'>Fotolia.com</a>
  
  Selecting games that appeal to teenagers can be difficult because most teens would rather mingle with their friends than play organized games. However, if you're planning a teen gathering where the kids don't know each other very well or at all, icebreaker games with prizes for the winners can draw them in as a way to get comfortable and make it easier to have a good time together.
  
  

Stunt Game

• Before the party, write a collection of stunts with an assigned time limit for each on separate pieces of paper and put them in a bowl. Stunt suggestions include doing 10 push-ups, doing a handstand and saying the alphabet backward--choose stunts that are safe and suited to the party space. The kids can play individually or in teams. One player starts by drawing a stunt from the bowl; if he does the stunt in the required amount of time, he or his team earn one point. Each player can go once or twice, depending on how much time you have and how many players there are. After the game ends, the team or individual with the most points wins the game.
  
  

Who's the Leader?

• Send one teen out of the room and have the rest sit in a circle. The teens in the circle choose one member of the group as their leader. The leader performs an action, such as tapping her foot, scratching her head or rubbing her belly. All the others in the circle then imitate the action. Call the other player back into the room to observe the circle and try to figure out who is the leader, in just two guesses. The leader must deftly switch to another movement that everyone quickly follows, trying not to let on who is leading the movements. If the leader gets caught in two guesses, she goes out of the room next. If not, she gets to pick someone to leave the room for the next round.
  
  

The Wink That Kills

• Have all of the party guests sit in a circle, but not too close together. Give each teen a playing card--one must be a king and it must be the only king handed out. Tell the kids not to let any other player know what card they have. The person with the king is the "killer." With the cards set face down in front of them, the teens must start looking around at each other, while the "killer" winks at them--trying not to be seen by anyone but his "victim." When someone gets "killed," he must wait five seconds, then fall over "dead." The object is for the "killer" to try to knock off as many players as possible before he is noticed.