Team Building Activity - Fun, Physical, and Problem Solving Activities

These activity ideas will help your group with their problem solving skills in a fun, physical way. Give your leadership a chance to learn new ways to promote teamwork. If you have a new group, use these team building activities to bind them into a unit rather than a group with no direction. Choose a challenging activity to stretch the physical boundaries of your team and help them realize they can do more.
Find a teambuilding activity to use inside or outdoors depending on your setting and change the idea to fit your needs.

Comments:
May 15, 2012 - Alyssa Vachon

I love this resource.

We use it all the time for gettng ideas for our scouting activities.

Thank you

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Anti-Gravity Tent Pole	Brain Bender - Water Jugs
Candle Duel	Chinese Numbers
Evolution	Marshmallow Kick, Throw, and Blow
Uncle Zeb's Lost Treasure	Walking on Mars
Webelos Puzzles	Alligator Pit Crossing
Arm Wrestle Co-op	Around Town
Ball Horde	Balloon Artists
Balloon Bed	Balloon Juggling
Balloon Olympics	Balloon Symphony
Balsawood Airplanes	Bid, Barter, Build
Blind Knots	Bomb Squad
Bomb the Flame	Bombs and Shields
Bowline Flood Rescue	Bowline Race
Bowline Sheetbend Trust Lean	Bull Riders
Bungee in the Bucket	Campsite Rescue
Can Store Compass	Candy Grab Bag
Card Swap	Centipede Crawl
Chain Gang Escape	Chair Building - Teamwork
Chariot Races	Choose the Bucket
Citizenship Mobile	Clove Hitch on a Tree
Collecting Sasquatch Fur	Compass Point Exchange
Copycat Collection	Count to 10
Count Up Scavenger Hunt	Coup Sticks
Critter Creations	Dark Walkers
Deal or No Deal	Double Juggle
Electric Jail Break-Out	Escaped Convicts
Everybody Up	Eye Witness
Falcon Island Rescue	Family Feud
Feed Me	Feet In
Finding A to Z	Fire Building, String Burning, Water Boiling
Fire Transfer	Follow the Light
Frisbee Bridge	Get to Know You - Cover Up
Get to Know You - Nuts and Bolts	Get to Know You - Truth or Lie
Giants of Industry	GillyWump Campsite
Glow Team	Glued Feet Race
Going Camping	Gold Rush
Gotcha	Grab My Stuff
Great Investments	Group Counting
Group Drawing	Group Juggling
Group Jump Rope	Group Morph
Group Push Up	Group Sculpture
Guess a Minute	HA!
Hand Slap	Heads or Tails Hike
Healing Ground	Height, Width, Direction Estimation
Hidden Route	High Low
Hole in my Pack	Human Bomb Squad
Human Ladder	Human Pyramid
Human Rain Storm	Human Robot
Human Spring	Hunting Elephants
Ice Rescue	Imagine That
Indoor Miniature Golf	Invisible Maze
Its My Lucky Day	Jimmy Jimmy
Jumping Bean Relay	Keep Away
Keypad Scramble	Kim's Knot Trail
Knight Errantry	Knot or Not
Know Your Leaf	Ladder Lashing
Lashing Grab Bag	Lashing Travois Races
Lava Walkers	Leaky Water Barrel
Licorice Knots	Lifeline Throw
Light It Up	Lint Lighting Relay
Log Convoy	Log Lift
Lotsa Knots	Mafia
Magnified Movements	Map Making
Mars Rover	Medicine Pouches
Micro Cooking	Micro Scavenger Hunt
Mimic	Mixed Up Questions
Nano Nature Trail	Newspaper Architects
Nine Magazines	Nitro Swing
Opposite Actions	Pancake Relay
Paper Airplanes	Paper Shuffle
Pass the Bead	Pass the Message
Passing Race	Patrol Coup Sticks
Patrol Spirit Competition	Patrol Staff
Pitching Pennies	Pocket Rope
Point North	Police the Site
Pooh Sticks	Pretzel Lashing
Psychic Hand Shake	Pull Your Weight
Quartermaster's Shakedown	Quick Intelligence Test
Radioactive Isotope Transport	Radioactive Transport
Reactor Transporter	Recipe Treasure Hunt
Reinforcements On the Way	Retrieve the Secret Message
Reverse-o	Ring on a String
Ring on a String - Giant Size	Rock, Paper, Scissors Hike
Rope March	Rope Shapes
RPS Snake	Sand Art
Save the Dinosaur Egg	Scout Baseball
Scout Bucks Auction	Scout Meets Scout
Scout Skills Jeopardy	Scoutmaster Stalking
Scoutorama	Secret Good Deed
Signal Race	Signs Up
Skin the Snake	Skyscrapers
Snow Snakes	Sock Puppets
Soda Pop Detectives	Sort Em Out
Space Invaders	Space Rescue
Spider Web	Spy Stalking
Stalking and Reporting	Suspend a Log
Taut-line Hitch	Telephone and Bullhorn
Telephone Pole Shuffle	Three Monkeys
Tiger Neckerchief Slide	Tightrope Walk
Tin Soldiers	Tiny Tea Time
Touch It, Not Me	Touch Stick
Trade Up	Trail to the Treasure
Trailing the Hare	Tripod Swing Lashing
Trivial Pursuit	Trolley Shuffle
Troop Fitness Challenge	UnRavel the Group
Wacky Animals	Warp Speed
Wax Firestarters	Weird Noise Makers
Wet Penny	Who Am I?
Who Did the Good Turn	Who Said That?

Team Building Activities

Fun and Physical Activities