What do you call a team of kids having fun outdoors? Happy children, that’s what! It’s fun when friends get together, but it can be chaotic.
Team building games turn chaos into order.
Try these 5 outdoor games to help you and your friends work as a team.
1. Caterpillar Races
You’ll need:
Teams of 3 or more kids
A start and a finish line
To play:
Kids sit behind each other with legs outstretched, holding onto the feet of the person behind them.
The team work together to race to the finish.
2. Tangle Team Trials
You’ll Need These:
Six or more kids
A stopwatch
How To play:
Kids stand in a circle, stretching out their right hand to grab the hand of someone opposite to them and their left had to hold onto someone at least two people to their left.
When the clock starts, everyone races to untangle themselves – without breaking hands.
3. Quick Sand
You need this:
Six or more children
Blindfolds
Sheets of paper for obstacles
A start and a finish line
To Play This:
Group kids into two teams.
The team leader stands at the finish and the rest, line up at the start.
Place ‘obstacles’ in between the start and finish line. This area is a ‘swamp’, and the obstacles are ‘quicksand’.
The leader guides their teams through the swamp.
If players hit quicksand, they return to the end of the team line.
The first team to guide all their players across the swamp, wins.
4. Scavenger Hunts
You’ll Need These:
Teams of two or more children
A list of natural things that can be ‘found’ outdoors
A bag to hold it all
‘Briefs’ for pics the teams must take
A camera or smartphone
How To play:
Each team gets a scavenger hunt list to find items in their area or a list of photographs they’ll need to take.
The first team to collect all items and return to ‘home base’, wins.
5. Noisy Neighbours
You need this:
Teams of two or more children
Blindfolds
To Play This:
Each team chooses one animal noise and one vehicle noise.
Everyone wears a blindfold.
Each kid has to find his partner, by identifying the noise.
When a pair finds each other, they sit down back to back.
The blindfold game ends when everyone has found each other.