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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 almost any 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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Keypunch
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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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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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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 outmaneuver and win.
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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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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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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 Mandela
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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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Blind Polygon
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Small group is blindfolded and given a length of rope, then asked to form various shapes with the rope e.g., a house.
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Frenzy
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Game which seems to be competitive and impossible but can be solved via creative cooperation. Involves running and collecting balls.
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Golf as a Team Building Exercise
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Group golf with non-golfers for teambuilding and exercise. Have at least two teams. Each person tees off. Next shots are played from the team's best shot.
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Human Overhand
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Put lengths of rope between people. Task: tie a knot in the central piece of rope without letting go. Variation on Human Knot.
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Limited Senses
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People are blindfolded & given a unique number. Challenge is to line up in sequential order, without talking. Works on communication skills.
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Newspaper Bridge Building
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A group constructs a bridge out of newspaper that has to be able to support a weight and allow passage of an object underneath.
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Talisman
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A group is required to cross a 50 yd distance. To cross, one must carry a talisman, and one can only carry the talisman once each way. Solution requires some people to carry other people.
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Traffic Jam
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Logic exercise which can be presented as a physical task. Gets groups thinking, sharing ideas, discussing, trialing solutions and problem solving.
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Welded Ankle
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A group attempts to cross a distance with each person's feet 'welded' to another person's feet.
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