For something active that involves teamwork, why not try paintball or laser tag? Paintballing can be a bit too rough for some people, so laser tag is a great alternative.
Or in the case of laser tag, one team has to get the most hits against the other team. Players learn to work together, defend themselves and protect one another in this game.
A simple idea that involves no preparation and is totally free. Have your teens stand in a circle and then put their hands in the middle. Once they do that, have them hold the nearest hands.
The fun part is having them detangle themselves! They will need to work together to go over and under one another, to weave in and out.
Again, this game needs minimal preparation, is free to do and can be done anywhere. Choose a theme such as washed up on a desert island, stranded on the moon or lost in the desert. Create a list of 15 items that players must rank by importance. They should do it individually and then as a team. These helpful links allow players to compare their individual rating, team rating and the official ranking.
The point is to see how participants react to a situation alone and within a group. By comparing the individual and group lists to the official ones, we can see how players value individual contributions. The idea is that half of the group wait and half have a problem to solve. The first group wait in a room standing in specific positions. Each group has a communicator who should relay information between one another. A game where everyone passes the same emotion around the circle.
A personal favorite of mine for middle school youth because they love yelling out poop deck! Equipment needed: open space and boundaries markers. Not only will you love it, so will they. All you need is some chalk or tape to make your court and a ball. Get ready to create a new tradition and a game that will be requested all the time!
Youth work in groups of two and try to cooperatively sit down together and stand up with their backs pressed together. A twist on hide-and-go seek where one person hides and everyone seeks. When someone finds the hider they then hide with them. This continues until the last one seeking finds the whole youth group hiding in one place. This is a beloved game of many youth! This is a great game for how gossip spreads or how we can often misunderstand or mishear things told to us. One person is the jokester and they try to make each person in the circle laugh.
They can tell jokes, make funny faces, and so forth. Set a time limit for each person. The winner is the one who made the most people laugh. They absolutely love this game. The boys get super into it, trying so hard to get that last seat.
There are a few catches. Your team must hold hands while any one is on the islands to make sure no one falls in and after a foot touches an island that island must have a foot on it at all times until the last team member removes his foot. On the other side of the swamp is your source of transportation home. With these team building games, you group will learn to work together as a team and have fun while doing it!
Check out this article on how to ask debrief questions for team building games. You can also check out these other awesome games from Youth Group Games for more ideas. Doug Franklin is the president of LeaderTreks, an innovative leadership development organization focusing on students and youth workers. Doug and his wife, Angie, live in West Chicago, Illinois. Diesel and Penelope are Weimaraners who never leave their side. Doug grew up in… Read More. Top 5 Team Building Games for Youth By Doug Franklin November 6, Use these five fun, interactive team building games for your youth ministry to help your students engage with one another and build trust in a real and memorable way.
About the Author Doug Franklin Doug Franklin is the president of LeaderTreks, an innovative leadership development organization focusing on students and youth workers. Through Never I Have Ever, players learn many interesting and surprising things about your coworkers.
Prior to the game, ask your team to submit an eccentric photo with no context. Then, post the photos in a place where everyone on the team can see them. Ask team members to submit short explanations of what is happening in the photos. The person who originally submitted the photo votes on which story they like the most. No Context Pictures is a great team building game because it helps paint a more complete picture of your coworkers by showing a different side of their lives that may not be visible at the workplace.
Here are more problem solving games. Limericks are a whimsical form of poetry with a distinct rhythm. In Work Limericks, teams use creative muscles to write limericks based on work experiences. After familiarizing your team with guidelines on how to write limericks , give everyone a period of time to compose limericks.
Then, have your team vote on which limericks are their favorites. The limerick with the most votes wins. Work Limericks is an excellent game because it lets your team exercise creativity and share creations with others.
Based on Secret Santa , Secret Gifter is a gift exchange game that you can play any time of the year. Players submit names and receive a subject to buy gifts for. To keep gifts fair and of similar quality, set a price limit and sponsor the purchase as a company.
Then, on the designated day, publicly exchange gifts. During the gift exchange, team members guess who their Secret Gifter is. If a team member guesses correctly, then they win! Secret Gifter is a great game because it encourages team members to learn more about each other to buy the perfect gift. Plus, who does not like to receive a fun surprise? Also, Hangman is exceptional for team building because it unites the team by pushing your coworkers to work together to successfully guess the word.
Alphabet Chain is a terrific game for teams who wish to increase vocabularies. In this game, your team first settles on a topic. Then, team members must name words that fit in that topic. However, every word proposed needs to begin with the last letter of the previous one.
If a team member is unable to think of a suitable word and breaks the chain, then that person must withdraw. The winner of the game is the last person still remaining.
Since Alphabet Chain only requires an expansive vocabulary to play, no materials are needed, making it an easy game to start with. At the end of the week, the engineer with the most fixed bugs wins the game and gets a reward. Every week, your team logs the number of pages read and writes a brief reflection on the contents. At the end of the summer, the team member who reads the most pages wins the game. Guess the Film Buff is an entertaining game inspired by Guess the Refrigerator.
Prior to the game, team members submit photos of DVD or home movie collections. Then, display the film collection pictures in a central location and have team members submit guesses for who the owners are by the end of the day. The person who guesses the most film collections correctly wins. Team Charity Drive is a meaningful game where your team competes together to make the world a better place.
Select a charity your company would like to contribute to. Then, set a reasonable donation goal for the company to reach. If your team is able to achieve the goal by the end of the month, then treat your team to celebratory drinks or pizza parties. Here are ideas for virtual fundraisers you can do, and a list of community building activities for work.
For this game, request team members submit photos of their desk setup. Once the photos are in, post the pictures in a shared space where everyone can see.
Then, ask your team to turn in guesses on whose desk is whose. The person who guesses the most number of desks correctly wins.
If your team is hungry for new recipes to try, then My Next Meal is the activity for you to try. At the beginning of the week, a different member of the team submits a photo of what is inside their refrigerator.
Then, other team members present creative recipes using the ingredients seen in the photo. Everyone votes for the best recipe, and the recipe with the most votes wins. My Next Meal reduces the pressures of meal prep and also helps bring team members together through a love of food. Has your team ever considered dabbling in low-budget filmmaking? Prior to the festival, split your employees up into filmmaking teams.
Give the teams 48 hours to write, shoot, and edit a five-minute film. Then, invite everyone to watch the short films together by holding a film festival.
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