Review the resources and activities for ideas to implement within your school-age program.
Teambuilding Activities:
Unicef Kid Power
https://gokidpower.org/fun-team-building-activities-for-kids/
Learn about classic team-building activities for kids, including indoor and outdoor games, such as group jump rope; traffic lights, forehead dots; birthday line up; trust walk; fingertip hula hoop and more.
Play Works
https://www.playworks.org/resource/team-building-games-to-play/
This play-friendly site lets you search (https://www.playworks.org/game-library/) games by type of game, number of participants, ages, equipment needed and time needed to play. Team building games include the hula-hoop challenge; ball toss race; over under relay; ants on a log, blindfold building; alligator swamp; and more.
Other Activites:
- Imagineers: Create magical sets where kids can use their imagination to act out scenes and play games. Ideas include searching for buried treasure on a deserted island, traveling through the jungle, or even flying through outer space.
- Kids’ Karaoke: Kids can enjoy an afternoon of Karaoke; use Disney Sing It for the Wii Karaoke game.
- Lego Camp/Club: Let kids have free build time or suggest specific things to build related to a book or subject of your choosing. It could be a competition or just for fun! Members break down the Lego bricks and help clean up.
- Game Day: Invite children to bring a board game to share and gather with others to play.
- Trivia Challenge: You choose the subject and help children choose their teams. Write questions about favorite books, local facts, sports teams, favorite television shows, etc.
- Wii/Just Dance: This is a great way to bring kids together for some friendly competition.
- Digital Scavenger Hunt: Divide the group into teams with a phone that is capable of taking digital photographs. Then send each team into the outdoor play area with a list of items of which they need to find and take photos. Examples include a red brick, a bird, something I like that is green, etc. After each of the items on the list has been photographed, team members come back and share their findings.
- Me Too: Divide the children into two different groups. Have the groups form lines, so that the groups are looking at each other. The moderator will make a series of statements, and each child must step forward for every statement that is true for him or her. Possible questions include: I am the oldest/youngest sibling in my family, I like to eat fruits and vegetables, I can hold my breath for sixty seconds, I sing in the shower, I think it would be fun to be famous, I’m a good cook, etc.
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