This could be the perfect game. All you need is a pair of dice and a rule sheet printout. Have everyone come prepared with a gift, obviously. From there, roll the dice one at a time. The number you land on comes with instructions that dictate the fate of your present, like unwrap your gift or everyone passing your present to the left. How well do you know your coworkers? This is a great way to find out — or learn a little fun fact about one of your cubicle-mates.
Have your most enthusiastic coworker host. When everyone brings a gift in, it'll be marked with a number and you'll be given a paper with that same number on it. Write down a fun fact about yourself. The fact paper will go into a hat and the host will read off the facts. Whoever guesses who the coordinating fact is about first gets the gift associated with the number! Similar to the numbers game, play a round of trivia with your office. It can even be tailored to your office, be holiday-specific trivia , or just general random facts.
When you answer correctly, you get a gift. Simple, informative, and hilarious. You'll need a set of rule cards to deal out, one to each person. The cards will have instructions like "give your gift to someone wearing a hat" or "everyone must swap their gift with another person. Tailor this classic game to the holidays with prompts like, "never have I ever had eggnog.
Bust out those bingo markers and start up the virtual bingo number caller. To play, the first winner gets to pick from the fresh pile of presents, the second winner can easily steal that gift or pick another gift. Take the guesswork out of gift-giving with a mug exchange.
Have everyone bring in a mug to give away — bonus points for creativity. Then, mark each wrapped mug with a number , as inspired by Gifts. Pick up your mug and relish in the festive chuckles. Set your budget to just one dollar or two.
Do not open until everyone has their gift. Have a list of holiday jokes prepared, one for each person participating in the exchange. Separate jokes from punch lines on strips of paper.
One punch line goes on each gift and one joke goes to each person. Have the person read their joke out loud, then find the punch line that goes with it -- the gift with their punch line belongs to them! Play bingo and have the first winner select a gift from the pile. The second winner gets to choose if they want to steal or take a new gift from pile.
Prior to the party, have everyone select a country and a person. That person must then buy a gift that suits the country.
For example, choose a popular toy, wardrobe, or food and write a short description of why that item was picked. When it's time to exchange, read your description aloud. It's fun to learn about different cultures! Set up clues and time each person. Once they find their gift, get together in a circle and open them!
Have each person bring a gift. Instruct them not to label who it's from. Once a gift is selected, have the person guess who brought it in. If they guess, they get to keep it -- but if they don't they have to pick a "dare" from a jar.
This could be anything ranging from dancing to drinking. Keep giving them dares until they guess who! Think of it as a care package for the recipient. This is similar to Secret Santa, but with a gift basket theme.
Before the party, the host will assign you a guest to bring a basket for. Come up with a fun theme like Spa Day or Movie Night, and put together a fun package of multiple small gifts.
If you are unsure what to get your co-workers, this is the perfect theme. Bring in a treat candy, baked good, bottle of wine, meat and cheese platter and have fun exchanging. The best part is that everyone can share the treat in the office. Make cards with sayings such as "switch with someone wearing red" or "trade with whoever you've known the longest" and hand them out after each person has selected their gift.
Make sure all gifts have a set price that is appropriate for everyone participating. If money is tight this year, try doing a dollar store exhchange. Pick a fun item such as a party prop, household item, or an edible treat. This works with those you don't know too well. What's better than holiday games? The presentation part is practical to do in smaller groups. And whether you have a small or large group, you can arrange a neat Coat of Arms gallery by sticking all the drawings on the wall of the workshop room.
Large group games where participants have something to show at the end can be especially effective and can really set the stage for a productive, interactive workshop. Coat of Arms teambuilding opening ice breaker team get-to-know thiagi. In eighteen minutes, teams of people must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow needs to be on top. Since the instructions are fairly simple, it is easy to scale this activity up to groups playing in parallel and competing who builds the highest structure.
It emphasizes collaboration, group communication, leadership dynamics and problem-solving strategy — everything you want in your large group games. Also, there are marshmallows.
All group activities are better with marshmallows! Marshmallow challenge with debriefing teamwork team leadership collaboration. In eighteen minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The Marshmallow Challenge was developed by Tom Wujec, who has done the activity with hundreds of groups around the world.
Visit the Marshmallow Challenge website for more information. This version has an extra debriefing question added with sample questions focusing on roles within the team. The Helium stick group activity gives a simple challenge to teams that require teamwork and coordination to manage.
People are lined up in two rows facing each other, 5 to 10 people per row, depending on the length of the sticks you have for the game.
Participants point with their index finger and hold their arms out in a way that a stick can be horizontally laid on their index fingers. Why Helium Stick? You can easily scale this activity for larger groups, just have as many sticks as the number of lines you will create, and the sub-groups will compete against each other who manages to lower their stick first.
Helium Stick teampedia team teamwork ice breaker energiser. A great and simple activity for fostering teamwork and problem solving with no setup beforehand. Large group games are undeniably effective at getting things rolling, and fun group activities are essential for getting a team engaged, but what if you need to go deeper?
There are dedicated facilitation methods that work really effectively if you need certain conversations to happen in large groups. The techniques below can be used as core group activities for planning and facilitating large group workshops. They tend to have only a few guiding principles and rules, which allows smaller groups to organize and manage themselves during a workshop. Open Space Technology — developed by Harrison Owen — is a method perfectly suited for organizing and running large scale meetings, often multi-day events, where participants self-organize themselves to find solutions for a complex issue.
There are only a few rules guiding the structure of the event, and the agenda is created by the people attending. It is a great method for tacking important and complex problems where the solutions are not obvious. The technology can accommodate hundreds of people. Open space group activities can be incredibly productive, though remember that there is a degree of self-determination here, and the individual groups in the open space are only as good as their members and the set-up of the open space.
Open Space Technology idea generation liberating structures problem solving. When people must tackle a common complex challenge, you can release their inherent creativity and leadership as well as their capacity to self-organize. Open Space makes it possible to include everybody in constructing agendas and addressing issues that are important to them. Having co-created the agenda and free to follow their passion, people will take responsibility very quickly for solving problems and moving into action.
Letting go of central control i. You can use Open Space with groups as large as a couple of thousand people! Facilitators create a cafe-style space and provide simple guidelines for the groups of people to discuss different topics at different tables.
The structure of this method enables meaningful conversations driven completely by participants and the topics that they find relevant and important. World Cafe works great when slightly informal, with a relaxed cafe-style atmosphere. Group activities like this benefit from the setting of the right tone — make sure to get this right before you begin! World Cafe hyperisland innovation issue analysis.
Facilitators create a cafe-style space and provide simple guidelines. Participants then self-organize and explore a set of relevant topics or questions for conversation. So, here the group members do not switch tables, but participate in four rounds of conversation with taking different approaches to exchange opinions and discuss the same topic in depth.
This more focused group activity format helps to build trust and connection between group members and therefore well-suited to handle controversial or difficult topics among diverse participants.
Again this method is very practical when dealing with large groups by setting up parallel discussion groups. The classic — and often ineffective — shout-out type of brainstorming session has a natural limitation when it comes to large groups. However, there are other methods that provide a structured way to get people into creative thinking and elicit innovative ideas from everyone in the room even if you have dozens of participants. Remember that workshop activities should not be limited to large group games.
Tailor your agenda to your group and the purpose of the workshop or training session so that you have the right mix of group activities and group games. This is an idea generation method that is really easy to scale into large groups, yet still allows every participant to actively take part in the process.
The group should be given a limited number of objects, 2 or 3, that way they have to be moved and shared each time someone crosses. If someone touches the floor at any point, then they will get burnt and must start over. The first team to cross the river with all members intact are the winners.
Time: Hours. Items Needed: Scavenger hunt list, smartphones optional. Goal: Gather as many items on the list within a set period of time. Scavenger hunts are one of the oldest ways to get people to interact and collaborate. But, there are still one of the most effective and fun. Smartphones and apps have made it possible to do scavenger hunts anywhere.
You can even add in photo or video challenges and share an album within the organization. You can do a simple scavenger hunt and keep it in the office or take it outdoors, which can be much more exciting.
Create a list of items that groups must collect or tasks that they have to complete. They can be goofy, as long as it's possible to complete. Some examples are: "Take a selfie with someone wearing a cat shirt" or "Grab a take-out menu and a fortune cookie from a Chinese restaurant. Time: 40 Minutes. Goal: Get everyone through a web of rope without touching the rope.
Do you remember all those spy movies with the intricate laser security systems people had to maneuver through? Spider Web is kind of like that. Create a maze of lines and shapes by stringing twine between vertical 2 poles. The end result should resemble a spider's web with some larger, easier holes and some smaller more difficult gaps.
Teams must cross the spider web to reach the other side without touching the string or going in the same shapes as anyone before them. The challenge gets harder as more people cross to the other side and requires everyone to remember and communicate with each other.
Goal: Submerge a ballon in a bucket of water using only the supplies given. Balloon in water is a great way to see how your team solves problems together, particularly when faced with limited resources.
Each group must immerse an inflated balloon in a bucket of water for a minimum of 5 seconds. They can only use the provided materials to complete the activity.
The brick goes in the bottom of the bucket of water. Teams have a minute to strategize and flesh out their plan and only 5 minutes to do the activity. Only the provided materials can be used during the challenge. The 3 binder clips and inflated balloon given to the team cannot be altered in any way. Before starting the activity, the team has one minute to plan and they have to plan without touching the materials. After planning, the team is given 5 minutes to execute their plan. The balloon must be fully immersed in the water before the 5 minutes is over.
The balloon must remain immersed for at least 5 seconds, and the team must notify the trainer s when they are ready to be timed. Goal: Teams must retrieve a ping pong ball from the pipe by filling it up with water and floating the ball to the top. This game can get a little messy, so it's recommended for outside. Leaky Pipe is a highly interactive activity that requires groups to work fast and efficiently together. You'll need water, buckets, several cups, 2 pipes with holes drilled in them, and 2 ping pong balls.
To win, teams must retrieve a ping pong ball from the pipe by filling it up with water and floating the ball to the top. Participants will need to work together using the cups to carry the water from the bucket to the pipe, relay race style with cups of water to fill it.
The pipe has holes drilled in it, so they will have to plug the holes as the water gets higher. To complete the challenge, each team will receive a bucket of water which is placed 10 metres away from the pipe and several cups.
Remember to set a countdown, so they are racing against the clock. Items Needed: Ball Goal: Have every participant say their name. For new groups, check out an icebreaker and memory game called Group Juggle. Participants form a large circle facing each other. If you have a large group, break into groups so there are no more than 20 people in each.
Throw a ball to one person. They will throw it to someone else, but must say that person's name first. The ball goes around the group like that until a pattern starts. Once the group seems comfortable, throw in more balls to increase the difficulty. Time: 50 Minutes. Items Needed: Bags, Random objects. Goal: Create a 10 minute skit based on random items in a bag. Acting and improv exercises can be a humorous and energizing way to bring your team together.
Grab Bag Skits is a short activity in which teams will get out of their comfort zones by creating fun skits. Split the group into teams of 3 to 8 and have each team choose a bag. They don't know what is inside, but it is stuffed with unrelated and random objects.
Each team is given 10 minutes to put together a 2 to 3 minutes skit that uses each of the items. Every person in the group must take on a speaking role. Encourage groups to be as creative as possible. For example, they can use an apple as a meteor or a paintbrush as a witch's broom. Each team will preform their skit for the group. Although some individuals may be more introverted, Grab Bag Skits can encourage them to get out of their comfort zone and connect with colleagues.
Goal: Have the team correctly line up in order of a specific criteria. Ask the group to line themselves in order based on certain criteria. Make it more challenging by setting a rule that members can't speak to each other. You can do this as a get-to-know-you-better activity. Some examples are by:. As members move around the room to organize themselves in order, you'll notice how they communicate to complete the task and who takes on the role of organizers or leaders.
Follow Up Questions. Time: 25 minutes to an hour. Items Needed: Smart phone one per each participant. Goal: To make others laugh while collecting 7 cards to win the game. Evil Apples is a mobile app inspired by the party game, Cards Against Humanity. Other players submit cards anonymously to fill in the blank. The person with the game card chooses the best, and often the funniest response. Players will bond over laughs and may appreciate the creativity of other group members.
You will need to be cautious how you use it some cards can be considered inappropriate or offensive which for many is the fun of the game. However, you can download different decks that are more work-appropriate or use other card apps to create your own decks.
Number of Participants: Players. Items Needed: Smart phone or tablet, Jackbox games , video calling software. Goal: Every player will make a drawing based on a prompt. Players then submit a title for these drawings and try to pick out the real title from the fake ones.
Drawful is the perfect solution for remote teams. It can easily be played over Zoom or other video calling software, as well as in person. In Drawful, each player receives an unusual prompt they need to try and draw on their phone in a limited amount time. After someone finishes and submits their drawing, everyone else submits a title anonymously that could fit the other player's drawing.
These titles can be humorous or serious, it's up to each player. The goal is to find the correct drawing prompt while fooling others into selecting decoy answer. Bonus points are awarded to the decoys that are particularly clever or funny. Create a video meeting with team members and share your screen. Start the game! Every player uses their phone or tablet as a controller, so it's important that everyone has access to a device.
The game will run everyone through the instructions before playing so everyone viewing the screen share will get the gist. Items Needed: Each participant needs a mobile device. Goal: Work together to save the world from a growing pandemic. Based on the cooperative board game, the Pandemic mobile app centres around teams working together to fight and cure deadly diseases.
Each player has a specific role that they must fill in order to succeed. Roles can be anything from an engineer building satellites so the CDC can communicate to a scientist collecting data and samples to test for a cure.
The premise for the game is the perfect setup to teach risk management and foster teamwork. It shows that every role is needed to reach the long-term and tough goals. Goal: Score the highest number of points while laying tiles.
Another board game turned mobile app, Carcassonne focuses on laying tile to strategically gain control of map's cities, fields and other terrain with the end goal of earning the most points. The game is best played in groups of four players and as a pass-and-play for teams. Everyone can also play together or remotely on their own device. With each new tile that is laid, individuals must adjust their strategy. It can get people thinking about how to formulate strategies and use logic to reach long-term goals.
Goal: To complete all tasks before being killed by the imposter. Among Us is a multiplayer game that combines strategy with sci-fi. Individuals are assigned roles: either as one of the crew members on a spaceship whose goal is to complete their assigned tasks or an imposter who poses as a crew member and whose goal is to kill the majority of the crew members while sabotage the mission.
Similar to games like Mafia and Werewolf, the crew will gather after a dead body is fond to discuss who everyone believes may be the imposter.
At the end of these gatherings, someone will be voted off the spaceship. Players will find there's a strategy to sticking together with other crew members and collaboration is necessary to complete all tasks and find the imposter.
Communication is also key to winning the game. Number of Participants: 2-Unlimited. Goal: Team up and go on quests. It can be download on Android or iOS devices. People can communicate, barter, form alliances and show what they are capable of when they work as a team. Playing a fantasy multiplayer RPG game may seem like an unconventional way to build your business team, but it can foster real-world teamwork.
It also taps into the imagination of your members and their ability to communicate. Team building games and activities for teams with more time available. All activities should take between minutes of participants time. Items Needed: Anything they could use to build a bridge. Some suggestions: tape, paper, marshmallows, straws, Legos, popsicle sticks or Jenga blocks.
Goal: Have two groups independently build bridge halves that must fit together. To tap into your team's creativity and communication skills, try bridge build. Divide into two different teams. Each must build half of a bridge with the materials provided.
The goal is for the two bridges to have similar or identical design and be able to fit together when finished. The challenge is that the teams must be separated so that they can't see the other team or what they are building.
But, they are allowed to communicate verbally or through chat e. Depending on what you use, you may want to also supply them with tape, paper and pens. This exercise is good for developing communication, creative thinking, and leaderships skills.
What was the hardest part of this challenge? How did you overcome that? Did you miscommunicate at any point?
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