Quick team challenge activity game for young people. Split the group into smaller teams of 4-6 people. Get everyone to take their shoes off. Using the shoes available to their team, they must construct the tallest tower. The team with the tallest tower at the end of the time wins the challenge. It is recommended that you give participants five minutes to complete the challenge.
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Organise the group into a circle., ensuring enough space between each other (stretched arm length). Stand in the middle of the circle. The aim of the game is for all participants to exactly copy your movements – all except two of them. Instead of these two movements, they must make another movement which has been set by you prior to the game e.g. when put your hands on the back of the head, the players must squat, or when the when you bend forward, the players must clap their hands etc. Anyone that makes a mistake is out of the game. You can adapt…
A fun game to play with younger groups. Each player must cover the distance set out by jumping with the small box or tennis ball between their knees. The time is noted down. If the player drops either the ball or the small box, they have to retrieve the item as quickly as possible and place between their knees again and continue to jump towards the finish line. The player who covers the distance in the shortest time is the winner.
The group are split into smaller teams and must work together to create their own problem solving challenge. Once they have come up with the ideas they must work together to finalise the challenge and then present back to the rest of the group. Equipment Required: None (or provide equipment for the groups to work with). Space Required: Small. Indoors or outdoors. Group Size: 8 to 30. Split the group into smaller teams of 4-5. Total Time: 20 minutes 5 minutes to brief and set up 45 minutes to plan and finalise concept 15 minutes to present idea to rest of the group 5…
Working in smaller groups, each group must create a team shield to establish a team identity (or any other subject you are trying to teach). This is a very flexible challenge, that can be used to front-load a workshop or as a reflective tool. Working in small teams –3 to 4 people is ideal. Explain that the task is to create a team shield, as a group. Focus on creating a team identity or your subject of choice. Ask the participants to allow some planning time before they embark on making their shield. Allow time for making. Each group displays and explains…
Fear in a Hat is a good activity to run at the beginning of workshop to understand how delegates are feeling and promote unity as a team. Individuals write their personal fears (anonymously) on sheets of paper, which is then collected in the hat and read out aloud by the facilitator. Each person tries to describe their understanding of the persons fear. This leads to a discussion about fears. As a trainer it is your job to eliminate those fears and put your learners at ease. Allow five minutes for learners to think about their fears and write them down.…
Here’s a list of twenty icebreaker questions that you can use with any group to help break the ice. These questions are great for setting up a workshop and building rapport between group members. They are fun and allow participants to open up and let their personality come across (they can be used on assessments too). So here we go: If you could eat any food everyday, what would you have? If you could be any animal, what would you be and why? If your could pick a song about your life, what would it be? When you were little, what was your…
Once everyone knows each others name in the group (try a challenge like group juggle). Ask participants to come up with just one question each. They must then walk round and ask the same question to everyone in the group. Once everyone has completed the questions. Go round the room and ask a number of questions relating to the icebreaker. Who had the best question? What made you laugh? Who had the best answer? Depending on the situation chosen, the activity can be very fun, but it can also demonstrate that crucial questions should be developed properly.
Get everyone in the group to take off a shoe and place all shoes in a pile. The object of the icebreaker is for everyone to pick a shoe at random and try to find the owner by mingling with each other. This works extremely well with larger groups.
Begin by asking everyone to empty their pockets, purses, or wallets for any coins they may have and out them on the table in front of them. Have some coins spare just in case someone doesn’t have any on them (or have others share coins). The task is for everyone to create their own personal logo using their coins in just two minute. If you’re feeling generous you can also get them to use other materials available to them, such as: pens, workbooks, wallets etc. If you’re working with large groups, then think about breaking them up into smaller teams of around 3-5 people…
Split the group into pairs and organise them so they are standing opposite each other. One person makes a movement, the other tries to mirror them as well as they can, they then continue this for the time allocated (say a minute). Swap roles. When both have played both roles, they can try to coordinate movements with each other, so that both become player and mirror at the same time. This works best with slow movements and needs a lot of concentration. You can also use this to help practice certain movements for sports e.g. passing the ball, en-guarde for Fencing,…
Ask the group to form a tight inward facing circle. One person is selected and stands in the centre of the circle. They allow themselves to relax, and fall backwards, safe in the knowledge that their team will catch them and then ‘bounce’ them gently round the circle. The tighter the circle, the less risk of accidents. Remain vigilant and monitor the safety of participants at all times. Give everyone that wants to try the challenge an opportunity to do so. Trust Ladder Line the group up into two parallel lines facing each other, standing close together. One person volunteers to…