Team-building activities utilize our love of healthy competition and creative problem solving but also add the benefit of bringing the members of a team or family closer as they work together. Here are 30 team-building activities that will get your people collaborating and having fun at the same time.
Team Building for Teens
Teens will love a challenge that allows them to be creative, get physical and solve problems.
- Human Props - Teams decide on an environment and one person starts doing an activity that somehow defines the environment (movie theater, office, school). The remaining team members become other props that would be in that environment. The first player then pretends to "use" the props built by other members and when done, has to name what they think the other props are.
- Antiques of the Future - Have a pile of materials (rubber bands, coffee filters, pipe cleaners, cardboard tubes) and give teams four minutes to choose one and make up a story about the item if it were found as an "antique" 500 years in the future. The group presents a skit that explains what it is, what it did and why it is extremely valuable. Creativity counts!
- Hat Shop - Using materials such as paper plates, plastic bowls, tissue or newspaper, have teams create hats. Then teams create a character who would wear their hat and a setting to present the hats, such as a hat shop, a talk show or an event (birthday party, sporting event). Then teams improvise a short skit showing off their characters and creations in their chosen setting.
- Sock Puppet Theatre - Grab those lonely socks and some markers and challenge teams to create a setting, characters and a conflict to resolve for a short sock puppet theatre presentation. Songs, poetry and puppet dancing are encouraged.
- Rope Challenge - Make a large circle out of rope for each team and put it on the floor. The entire team must stand at the edges of the circle so the rope is taut around their ankles while holding their hands in the air. Team members must take turns moving to work the rope up from ankles to wrists, keeping hands in the air at all times.
