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Helium Stick
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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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Toxic Waste
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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 any almost aspect of teamwork or leadership.
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Mine Field
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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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Zoom
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A group tries to create a unified story from a set of sequential pictures. The pictures are randomly ordered and handed out. Each person has a picture but cannot show it to others. Requires patience, communication, and trying to understand from another's point of view in order to recreate the story's sequence.
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All Aboard!
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A classic teambuilding activity in which a group is challenged to physically support one another in an endeavor to occupy an ever diminishing space.
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Survival Scenarios
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"Your plane crashed...your group needs to choose the 12 most useful items to survive..."
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Balloon Activities
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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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Great Egg Drop
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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.
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Warp Speed
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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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Multi-Way Tug-of-War
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Fun, physically demanding, competitive team activity. Several teams pull against each other, requiring communication and tactics as well as strength to outmanoeuvre and win.
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Amoeba Race
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A simple, close physical contact group cooperation activity. The group forms the three parts of an Amoeba: protoplasm, cell wall and nucleus. Then the group travels, splits into two amoebas, and the amoeba have a race.
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Group Mandala
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Group dynamics exercise. Each person is represented by an object. The objects are "caste" like dice and group members share their feelings and re-arrange the objects.
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Create Your Own Group Activity
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Involves small groups in designing and presenting a new group activity. A challenging exercise which requires all the elements of teamwork - communication, goal-setting, planning, cooperation, creativity, task orientation, etc.
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Team Building Quotes
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In small groups, set the challenge of creating the most inspirational team building quote in a set amount of time, e.g., 10 minutes. Each team reads out their quote and teams vote on the best quote.
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