Short Team building activities

Spaghetti and marshmallow towers.

Give the teams a pack of marshmallows and dried spaghetti, and the tallest free standing structure by the end of the session wins.

Note: Take some baby wipes or similar too, because once they start splitting the marshmallows, they get pretty sticky.
 
bazzabear said:
Spaghetti and marshmallow towers.

Give the teams a pack of marshmallows and dried spaghetti, and the tallest free standing structure by the end of the session wins.

Note: Take some baby wipes or similar too, because once they start splitting the marshmallows, they get pretty sticky.
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Something similar can be achieved with newspaper and cellotape too.

Have a search through here too - http://wilderdom.com/games/InitiativeGames.html
 
Zip Zap Boing is always popular at our things.

Also, instead of building the highest structure, how about the strongest one?

We used toothpicks and gummy bears and had to see which structure could hold the most car batteries before it collapsed. I think the winner got 7 or 8.
 
You'll need to buy some beanpoles, enough for 1 between 4. Then get two people to stand next to eachother with a small gap, and another 2 facing them in the gap so it goes, with the beanpole in the middle:

P1......P2
________
.....P3......P4

Get everyone to put their arms out bent, with their hands like this:

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Get P1 and P2 to put their hands on top of the pole and P3 and P4 underneath. Then tell all the groups to try and put the pole on the floor.

Stand back and watch the carnage!
 
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Terminal_Boy said:
Take them to the pub on quiz night.

Standard team building exercises kill workplace morale.
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They're pretty much always laughably lame and an insult to intelligence. Put 1000 behind the bar in a classy place and socialize. If people tend to stick to their own along department lines, ask someone with a big personality to be the facilitator and introduce people to each other without being overtly obvious.

Unless you work with idiots in which case paintball or a random quiz would do.
 
Trust exercises first:

a.

Pair up and blindfold one. Then have them give voice commands only to direct the blindfolded from place to the next.

b.

Pair up and have one facing away from the other and they have to fallback and hope the other will catch them.

Team building:

Get a larger rope and 4 people. They all get hold of the rope at waist level, at certain points and can only slide up and down the rope. They have to make a square shape.

The next stage to this is, get them to do it again, but this time a 5th member stands outside the group and directs the activity. The ones holding the rope must follow the 5th's instructions.

'Hopefully' the 2nd exercise emphasizes, that yes, we may get to the goal working on our own, but we will save time and effort if we follow plans, instructions and a good team leader.
 
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