Outdoor & Indoor Team Building Activities
Team building activities, conducted indoor or outdoor, help the employees in numerous ways.
It helps them overcome difficulties through team spirit and comfort, battle crisis with team support and trust, deal with consumer or client concerns through problem solving, decision making skills. These activities are constructed in a manner to facilitate trust, bond and communication between the employees while augmenting their leadership qualities, physical and mental strength and personality development through various activities that require cooperation and coordination.
OUTDOOR TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITIES
Caterpillar Walk
With team cooperation and patience, the group has to travel to the opponent’s side through the arranged hula hoops. Through this activity, team members learn that through collaboration and calmness, one can achieve success.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Pick the fruit
The team members choose one person from the team to traverse from one end to the other. On the way, he picks up as many fruits as he can and fling it from the circles made around. The hitch here is that one end of the rope is tied to the bark of the tree and the other end is in the grip of the members.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Blindfold Walk
In this activity, the team members select one leader to lead the team. All the members of the team are blindfolded and the team leader is expected to guide them through various obstacles. It is very important that the members follow the instructions correctly. The activity showcases the various problems that arise in the workplace and how fine leadership skills help to resolve them.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Plank Walk
The team must work as one to complete the activity and walk one step at a time while placing each plank frontward. Since their feet will be tied to the plank, communication plays a major role for coordinating the movements.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Spider Web pass through
The team is required to pass through the spider’s web without waking the giant spider. Hence, the team members must be careful in planning the way through the web, considering each one’s physical size and ability. This entails their creative thinking and how the team can overcome each other’s physical barriers too.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Blind fold tent challenge
This activity boosts the trust factor since the team members need to build a tent while they are blindfolded. The team has to complete the task before the clock’s striking. The team learns to work together under pressure and trust each other’s efforts in meeting the target before the deadline.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Blindfold Square
Depending on the size of the team, the members are blindfolded and given a rope of a specific length to create a perfect and large square. The activity creates the nuisance and perplexity due to “lack of vision”. The blindfold is then removed, for the team to examine their formation. Blindfold Square signifies the importance of having a clear vision and well – structured mental image to attain the goal.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Blindfold Ball Challenge
The challenge is to collect as many stress balls as possible while you are blindfolded. Again, a great deal of trust and communication is required amongst the team members. They depend on each other’s advice and guidance to trail the right path.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Tower Building Challenge
Teams need to build a tower with the wooden blocks placed one above the other. Each team member is given a string to which metal loop is attached. This exercise encourages creative problem solving ability of the members.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Caterpillar traverse
The team is required to traverse from one end to the under in the form of a caterpillar. They are provided with a cloth roll and members are supposed to reach the end point without stepping out of the cloth. The team coordination and communication skills are put to test.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Mind Field challenge
This is a popular and engaging activity that focuses on your listening and communication skills. Participants operate in a pair where one of them is blind folded and the other can only guide him from outside the field without any sort of physical contact. The blind folded participant is expected to cross the field from one end to the other while avoiding the mines on the way, as per the instructions given to him.
Mind Field Challenge is a flexible activity that works on various types of groups and sizes and can be adapted to youth, adults and corporates.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Acid lake collaboration challenge
Teams are provided with a crate. With the help of crate, all the members of the team are required to be transported to the other side without tumbling or stepping down his foot. This activity encourages team support and they learn to be more cautious of their team member’s safety.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Ball and Ring Challenge
This is also called “The Focus Ring” because the team is expected to have one focus during the activity. The aim is to transfer the ball from point A to point B and place it on the pedestal. It is possible to accomplish the task if the team has focused attention and clear communication. This activity reveals the kind of consequences that may arise when there are gaps in communication and how that would affect the end result.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Key Punch Challenge
Key punch is a challenge that requires both physical power and mental strength. A few number cards are placed on the ground and the participants need to tap the cards in ascending order within 30 seconds. This activity focuses on the importance of understanding each resource’s abilities to meet the challenging targets, by developing their critical thinking, problem solving and quick decision making skills.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
A-Frame Challenge
The selected team leader has to climb on the A- Frame and the rest of the members walk him to the finish line with the ropes attached to the frame. Though the leader has to guide the team, the activity is dependent on the notion of the other team members as to how to walk him in a convenient manner. This shows how leadership, planning and communication skills are critical at all the levels to achieve one common goal.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Structure building
The team is provided with different pieces of the wood along with a print out of the structure. They are expected to build the same structure in pre-determined time. This shows how necessary it is for the employees to focus on one common concept to meet fine results.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Land Raft Challenge
This is a fun and an adventurous activity that requires the team to build a land raft with the pipes and plywood provided to them. This activity requires a lot of cautious and coordinated efforts since the main objective is to carry all the team members safely from one point to the other.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Bucket challenge
Participants place their legs inside the bucket and are expected to walk through to the finish line. This is a fun activity which can be easily accomplished if the communication between the team members is smooth.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Pyramid Challenge
The team is divided into subgroups and each subgroup needs to construct smaller pyramids. All the smaller pyramids are then assembled to build one fine large pyramid. This activity shows that an organization’s success is a collaborative effort and contributions of all the employees.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Team Work Water Challenge
This is one crazy and an amusing activity. The team members are required to fill as much water as possible in the final container with the help of the buckets placed over their heads.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Catapult and Roman Empire challenge.
This activity involves two teams, Catapult team and Roman Empire team. While the former team builds a catapult, the latter one builds the Roman Empire. After the empire has been built, the former team gets a chance to shoot the empire. Post its destruction, the roles are interchanged and the latter team is required to demolish the empire in lesser time than the former catapult team took.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Street market challenge
This is a very challenging activity that is quite interesting and stressful at the same time. The team is split in a group of 4-5 people and need to make money. The catch here is that it’s a real market and their wallets and phones are taken away. They are required to think of creative, unique and clever ways to make money. It can either be by helping a vegetable vendor sell vegetables or assist a guy in carrying weight. This requires a lot of interpersonal, intellectual and social skills that is required in the daily organizational activities.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Scavenger team hunt challenge
This is an exciting treasure hunt activity. Teams are required to use their intelligent quotient to find the first clue; every clue leads to the next activity which is to be performed by the teams. Only after the completion of an activity, it leads the team further to the next clue hunt and task.
This challenge has various adventure activities that the teams will experience in natural locations. This challenge enhances team bonding, coordination and time management skills.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Amazing race challenge
The teams are set on an adventure with a taxi. Yes, you heard it right. Similar to adventure team challenge, here teams take off in a taxi and reach the target area for completing the team building activities. Since, the activities take place at different target areas, teams are also provided with GPS feature for assistance.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Roller coaster challenge
The teams are provided with a few materials and they are required to build a roller coaster in a way that allows the ball to travel. The challenge is to sustain the ball through till the end by using only gravity. This challenge represents the ups and downs that arise in the team and how a team can succeed if the conflicts are resolved.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
Cardboard race track building challenge
This activity is certain to boosts the energy levels of the team. The team is required to build a cardboard race track with the materials provided and whichever team builds the track that can uphold the hot wheel wins the challenge. Cardboard race track building challenge unveils the creativity and logical skills of the members and enhances team management.
Event Specs:
- Outdoors
- Group Size: 20-40
- Duration: 2-3 hours
