Fun Creative Team Building Exercises

Fun Creative Team Challenges Newspaper Roll Tower Building Competition How it works: Each team cuts a newspaper into triangular bits, rolls them up, and glues them into sticks, then builds a tower with it. The team that builds the highest tower wins. Supplies per team:  One newspaper  One glue stick Cardboard Bench Sitting Competition How it works: Each team builds a bench for two people. The team whose bench withstands the heaviest person in class sitting on it wins. Supplies per team:  Two sheets of corrugated cardboard, 120 x 240 cm  One hotglue gun  Ten hotglue sticks  One cutter Cardboard Bridge for water bottle competition How it works: Each team builds a bridge between two desks. The team whose bridge withstands rolling a water dispenser container over it wins. Supplies per team:  Two sheets of corrugated cardboard, 120 x 240 cm  One hotglue gun  Ten hotglue sticks  One cutter Mousetrap Powered Car Race How it works: Each team builds a vehicle, powered by a mouse trap. The team whose vehicle goes furthest wins. Supplies per team:  One mouse trap  A package of chopsticks  Four CDs  One hotglue gun  Ten hotglue sticks  Two meters of string  One roll of packaging tape   One 60 x 90 sheet of foam board Two wire coat hangers Cardboard Shoe Distance Walking Competition How it works: Each team builds pair of shoes, and appoints a person to wear them. The team whose shoes are still working once all team walkers have finished a parcours wins. The action is videotaped to determine at which time shoes disintegrate. Supplies per team:  One sheet of corrugated cardboard, 120 x 240 cm  One hotglue gun  Five hotglue sticks  One cutter  Forty envelope pins  One video camera Water Bottle Distance Transporter Competition How it works: Each team builds a contraption to transport a water dispenser bottle and finishes a parcours. The team whose contraption is still working once all teams have finished wins. The action is videotaped to determine at which time contraptions disintegrate. Supplies per team:  Two sheets of corrugated cardboard, 120 x 240 cm  One hotglue gun  Ten hotglue sticks  One cutter  Eight CDs  Four wire coat hangers  One roll of packaging tape  One video camera  One full water dispenser container Chopstick Bridge Building Competition How it works: Each team builds a bridge. The team whose bridge withstands rolling a water dispenser container over it wins. Supplies per team:  One hotglue gun  Ten hotglue sticks  Five packages of chopsticks  One full water dispenser container Chopstick Tower Building Competition How it works: Each team builds a tower. The team that builds the highest tower wins. Supplies per team:  One hotglue gun  Ten hotglue sticks  Five packages of chopsticks Egg Drop How it works: Each team constructs a contraption which will allow a raw egg to survive a drop from a certain height. The team whose egg survives the drop wins. Supplies per team:  Three raw eggs  One package of chopsticks  Ten paper cups  10 meters of string  One 60 x 90 foam board panel  One hotglue gun  Ten hotglue sticks  Four wire coat hangers  One package of rubber bands  One roll of toilet paper  Three garbage bags Paper Figure Folding Competition and Shadow Story Telling How it works: Each team folds figurines from paper and stages a shadow show to tell a well-known fairy tale. The team whose story is guessed the quickest by the audience wins. Supplies per team:  Ten sheets of paper  One data projector Paper Bag Carrying Competition How it works: Each team builds a carrying contraption for a water container. and finishes a parcours. The team whose contraption is still working once all teams have finished wins. The action is videotaped to determine at which time contraptions disintegrate. Supplies per team:     Twenty sheets of paper One glue stick One 5L container of mineral water One video camera Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats