Team building activities and games

Need some new ideas to help build a better team environment? Try out some of these effective team building activities and ideas. Perfect for your youth program, corporate event or social group - allow everyone an opportunity to develop stronger relationships with those around them with a good team building activity. These effective team building ice breakers, team building ideas and team building exercises provide helpful avenues to maximise the bonding opportunity whatever the situation!

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Psychiatrist

Have the entire group sit in a circle; a room with couches and chairs are fine, as long as...

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Speed Dating With a Twist

Set up the chairs in two circles, a small circle and a larger circle outside of that. Make sure...

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Mute Organisation

Simply announce that you want everyone lined up across the room by birth-date. Only catch: no talking. Once they...

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Shoe Shuffle

Get the group to take off their right shoe. Then throw all the shoes in a big pile in...

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The Tangled Chain

Get everyone to huddle in a group in the middle of the room and join each hand with someone...

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Blind Man's Journey

Sometimes i just can't work out why kids like some games, but my younger group LOVES this game. Blindfold...

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Lost on a Deserted Island

"The situation is dire - following a shipwreck, everyone has been stranded on a deserted island! Each person is...

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Circle Untangle

This is an all time classic icebreaker game! Everyone stands in a big circle and then grabs onto two...

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Mastermind

The classic game of Mastermind works well when solved as a whole group. The whole group must work together...

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Rock Paper Dragon

This game is great as an icebreaker and our group did it the first night of a youth confrence....

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A Light In Darkness

This is a great, fun game for leading into topics like spiritual warfare, reaching the lost, etc. This is...

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Speed Cricket

This game has proven to be a real hit. We play it inside after our bible study has finished....

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Simple Word Games

There are many simple word games you can find at the website listed. Some of them can be played...

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Zip Zap Boing

Rules are simple. Everyone stands in a circle and one person starts the throwing. If you throw the ball...

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Chinese Kickball

This is kind of like a normal game of kickball except there is only one pitcher--no outfielders, and everyone...

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The Human Slingshot

It's an exhilarating, fast-paced game that involves four people slinging each other back and forth within a human sized...

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Gargon

This game is to be played in the dark and it an awesome choice to play as a night...

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Aardvark Race

Set the game up by having two lots of two bowls facing each other. One on one side of...

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Benchball

Start with half the benches at on end of the hall and the other half at the other. Split...

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Creeping Closer

Select one person from your group to be the captain. They must stand on one side of the playing...

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Dinosaurs

1. Choose one person to be the "Danger Alert" or choose an adult or a group leader or something. Give...

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Packing Peanut Tower

Don’t throw away those packing peanuts from all those online packages you’ve had delivered recently – they’ll...

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Sitting Soccer

Objective/Rules: Score the soccer ball on one end of the line WITHOUT letting one's back-side leave the chair....

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Amoeba Tag

If you don't know anything about science, an Amoeba is a type of cell that eats other cells by...

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Wave- Hide and seek

There is one person who is the seeker, the rest of the people are hiders. The seeker puts the...

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Return of the Jedi (Hide and Seek Freeze Tag in the Dark)

The goal of the game is to defeat Darth Vader(preferably a youth leader) before he finds and freezes...

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Chalk Street Art Challenge

Divide kids into teams and hand out plenty of good quality sidewalk chalk. Explain their challenge is to come...

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Christmas Gift Giving

Live out the focus of Christmas by working together to give gifts to others in need

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