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Training and Team Building Activities

bulletMaze  Your team must successfully solve the established yet hidden Maze route and get as many team members through the Maze before time runs out.
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Helium Stick  Deceptively simple teamwork activity. Form two lines facing each other. Lay a long, thin rod on group's index fingers. Goal: Lower to ground. Reality: It goes up!

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Keypunch  A powerful teambuilding exercise for medium sized groups. Participants must touch the randomly placed numbers, in sequence, within a given time frame in multiple attempts.

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The Tallest Tower  Teams compete to build the tallest tower

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Tower Build   Teams build a tower using remote control

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Toxic Waste  A popular, engaging small group activity.  Equipped with a bungee cord and rope, a group must work out how to transport a bucket of "Toxic Waste" and tip it into the neutralization bucket.  Can be used to highlight almost any aspect of teamwork or leadership.

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Pipeline/Gutterball  A teambuilding activity where each participant gets one short length of half pipe, and the group must work together to deliver a marble down the pipes from start point to finish. Requires a high level of communication and teamwork.

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Labyrinth The ball travels around the holes without falling through a hole or off the square.

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Winding Down  Based on the carnival game

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Team Memory    Memorize as many items as you can

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The Numbers Game  Team must rearrange themselves to form called out numbers.

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Human Knot   The group must untangle itself to form a circle.

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Balloons  Group activities that can be done with balloons. Promotes gentle, fun physical movement, people getting to know one another, trust and working together

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Diversity Bingo

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Meet My Orange

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People Hunt

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Predictions

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The Company You Keep

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Lost on the Moon

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People Hunt

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Warp Speed Group Juggle  A team building exercise based on the icebreaker "Group Juggle". Groups are challenged to juggle as fast as possible. Invite group to "tender" a time they can deliver.

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Mine Field  Objects are scattered in an indoor or outdoor place. In pairs, one person verbally guides his/her partner, a blindfolded person, through the minefield.

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Multi-Way Tug-of-War   Fun, physically demanding, competitive team activity.  Several teams pull against each other, requiring communication and tactics as well as strength to out maneuver and win.

bullet Great Egg Drop  Small groups design an egg package to save an egg from breaking when dropped. Plus a 30 second jingle to sell their package. Followed by the Great Egg Drop-Off.
bullet  2 truths and a lie  People write down two truths about themselves and a lie. Then introduce the three "facts" to the rest of the group who tries to guess which one is a lie.
bullet Fear in a Hat     Group members write personal fears anonymously on pieces of paper which are collected. Then each person randomly selects and reads someone else's fear to the group and explains how the person might feel. Fosters interpersonal empathy.
bullet Blind Polygon
bullet Paper Folding - Differences
bullet Toothpaste Activity
bullet Robot Writer
bullet Bus Stop
bullet Focus Ring
bullet Human Traffic Jam
bullet Crossover

 

Good sources of activities: 

www.supportrealteachers.org

www.greatgroupnames.com

www.youtube.com

 

 

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