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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Actionary
This icebreaker youth group game is a cross between pictionary, sculptionary and charades. Firstly come up with a list...
Cups and Downs
This game is best played with a small group. Place 20 or more cups in the middle of the room,...
Speed Dating With a Twist
Set up the chairs in two circles, a small circle and a larger circle outside of that. Make sure...
Mute Organisation
Simply announce that you want everyone lined up across the room by birth-date. Only catch: no talking. Once they...
Bucket Balance
Get 4 kids to lie down on their backs in a small circle with their legs sticking up in the...
Shoe Shuffle
Get the group to take off their right shoe. Then throw all the shoes in a big pile in...
The Tangled Chain
Get everyone to huddle in a group in the middle of the room and join each hand with someone...
Pea Pipes
Simple relay structure for this game. 4 teams line up at one end. Place a bowl of peas (or whatever...
Caterpillar Race
Divide your youth group kids into some groups, 4 works well as a relay. Just make sure the groups aren't...
Fruit Juice Face-off
Each team must line up behind an empty bowl. At the other end there must be a bucket of...
Cheeseball Chuck-up
Divide your group into 4 teams. Select 1 player from each team to be the "target". Get a few teammates to...
Mr Whippy
Divide everyone into teams. Select one player from each team to lay down with a cone in their mouth....
Nose Knockers
This is pretty much just a relay with a twist! Poke two holes opposite one another at the top...
Lost on a Deserted Island
"The situation is dire - following a shipwreck, everyone has been stranded on a deserted island! Each person is...
Moo Cow Mines
Set up "cow pats" along a track about 50m long. "Cow pats" consist of paper plates with either jelly...
Coal Mine Relay
This is a basic relay race using wheel barrows. You'll need at least two teams, each team needing 1 wheelbarrow....
Pass the Lifesaver
Give one life saver to each team. Each member of the team has a toothpick which they keep pursed...
Swamp Crossing
Divide group into two teams. Give each team 3 "rocks" (construction paper cutouts about 1 1/2' x 1 1/2'). Make a start...
Tic Tac Toe
Set up 9 chairs like a noughts and crosses board. Form two teams and direct questions to alternate teams. If...
Rock Paper Dragon
This game is great as an icebreaker and our group did it the first night of a youth confrence....
Banana Chomp Relay: Search
As the teens get there, have them print their name on a list. This gives you the right spelling...
Lima Bean Relay Race
Give each team member a straw. Place two tables about 10 feet apart. One the first table have a paper...
Niteball
Setup: Sticky-tape a ring of glow-sticks to the opening of the bins, one colour per bin. then place the...
Candy Pants
I love this game mostly because of the name, but it is fun to watch and play. One person...
Banana Chomp Relay: Eat
Using the Bananas with the kids' names on them, pile all the bananas in a heap at the front...
Cup Stack Relay
Line two teams up next to each other with a table a few metres away from the start of...
Bible Rap-Off
Create two groups of as many as possible and give them a long bible verse each. Tell the two...
Identity
Divide your group into 2 teams. Each person writes the name of a well known person they would like to...
Play Dough Pictionary
Split the group into groups of about 5 pleople and distribute them around the room. Each group is given a...
Human Relay
Each team stands in a straight line behind one another at the start line. When the relay commences the...
Human Battleships
One of my favourite things is taking something normal and making it life-size. The game of battleships is great...
Speed Cricket
This game has proven to be a real hit. We play it inside after our bible study has finished....
Simple Word Games
There are many simple word games you can find at the website listed. Some of them can be played...
Talkin Bout Your Generation
Played this game in a fairly large youth group but could work for smaller groups too! If you are...
Helium Stick
You can do this team building activity with a single group (maybe as an team growth activity for your...
Rescue Relay
Preparation: 1. Tie each life saving device (we used empty cordial bottles) to a separate rope 2. Set out a start...
Chinese Kickball
This is kind of like a normal game of kickball except there is only one pitcher--no outfielders, and everyone...
Zip Zap Boing
Rules are simple. Everyone stands in a circle and one person starts the throwing. If you throw the ball...
Straws and Rubberbands
1) Each person gets a straw 2) The straw must be held using their mouth 3) They have to pass the rubberband...
Velcro Puzzle Beanie Relay
This game has worked brilliantly every time I've played it at my youth group. It's one of those games...
Messy Doughnut Eating Competition
Tie the doughtnut to a string. Split the group into pairs - each pair being a "team". One people...
Zombie Tag
Split into teams of two. One person is the zombie and is blindfolded. The other person guides the zombie...
Fruit Surgery
This game is best played in teams of three or less. Each team will get a fruit item (banana,...
Spot The Difference
Divide your group into two teams. Stand the first group in a line facing the second group. The second...
End of the World
Make a large circle with the rope on the floor, have the group stand in the centre of the...
The Toothpaste Game
Divide into teams of three. One person needs the the toothpaste and mask in each team. Another person needs...
Apple Eat Tag
Ask for two volunteers. These people will attempt to tip everyone else, in order to do this they must...
Dinosaurs
1. Choose one person to be the "Danger Alert" or choose an adult or a group leader or something. Give...
Creeping Closer
Select one person from your group to be the captain. They must stand on one side of the playing...
Packing Peanut Tower
Don’t throw away those packing peanuts from all those online packages you’ve had delivered recently – they’ll...
