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  • Teams: Multiple Teams
  • Time: 10 - 30 mins
  • Cost: Under $20
  • Mess: Cool Off & Clean Up
  • Location: Anywhere
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Team Architect

Mini olympic games, Team building games, Icebreaker games, Artistic games

Team Architect is basically a game where you get each team to build something with very little amounts of strange materials. For example, you could give each team a packet of pop sticks and a roll of sticky tape and get them to build a bridge which will support a heavy book.

Another example is to give each team a few sheets of newspaper and some string and then get them to make an egg support. Each teams egg support has to stop the egg from breaking when dropped from a certain height.

After the allocated building time is up, all the groups come together and the structures or inventions are tested.

*** Have you got any ideas as to what the team needs to create other than what's listed here? Please share in the comments section! Thanks!

Submitted by Shorty on 19 Sep 2007 - Search for more games submitted by Shorty.

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8 Comments Add a comment »

induJuly 30, 2011 at 8:57 pm
I would like to get more examples
JoshOctober 14, 2011 at 10:25 am
Tallest tower out of Spaghetti and Marshmallows is fun
Kiara ParedesJanuary 28, 2012 at 2:39 am
I liked that game. Actually, when you first read it, I sound sort of boring but I have played the game so I know it turns very funny. I love the fact that it makes each person participate!
mykah February 4, 2012 at 11:15 am
i am preaching at a random church of jr. high and high school kids and they are not very Godly but, i might just try this game and see if they may like it or not. i think i may have them build something out of pudding and blocks. maybe just grapes and toothpicks?!?!!??!?!? maybe i wil!!!!! thanks youth group games.com i will post next time after i preach and tell ya if they liked it and which one was there favorite!!!! :)
KatFebruary 17, 2012 at 12:14 pm
I have done something similar that we called "Paper Towers." Each group gets 3 sheets of standard computer paper, and 3 regular paper clips. They may not get more paper or clips--that's it, and although tearing is okay, no scissors! Using these materials, they try to build the tallest freestanding paper tower. Our rule is that it must stand on its own for at least 5 seconds (and knocking over others' towers deliberately is against the rules). The tallest I have seen was 117cm! It's funny, because at first, people are just trying to get the towers to stay up, but once the measuring begins, kids have a "goal" to beat, and then suddenly, they can beat just about any number you give them.
AnonApril 18, 2012 at 10:35 am
straws and buid the tallest building that can stand air from a fan
AnonApril 18, 2012 at 10:36 am
Sorry the straws need masking tape and the team gets 10-15mins to build the tower.
LisaApril 27, 2012 at 1:49 pm
We gave our Scouts recycled objects, like boxes, cardboard, toilet paper rolls, paper, tape, milk jugs and had them create a marble maze run... It was very interesting to see what different ideas they had!
 

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