What are some good outdoor team building games for big groups?
Outdoor Team Building Activities For Big Groups
Outdoor activities have always been able to lift employee’s spirits and it is for this reason, a lot of companies and organisations prefer organising outdoor team building activities. It gives them an opportunity to connect with one another and create a place where there is easy camaraderie. A general sense of competition along with bonhomie at the workplace is a perfect way to have a nice working environment.
Employees engaged in a variety of outdoor team building activities bring them together helping them develop a sense of teamwork and close collaboration. These activities successfully create a perfect working environment. Here, we bring you some excellent outdoor team building games that are perfectly meant for big groups.
Water Volleyball
It is a fun-filled outdoor team building activity which is sure to take you through the childhood memories. The simple game of volleyball has been made more interesting and exciting with the addition of water balloons. Participants are divided into two teams standing on the opposite sides of each other. They are given a satin sheet to catch as well as launch water balloons.
To do it successfully, it is important that teams’ position and manoeuvre the sheet such that it lands squarely on the satin sheet of the other team. If they are unsuccessful, it results in water being splashed on the participants. It turns out to be a very exciting game where team participants learn coming closer to each other, collaborate and meet goals.
Trust Walk
This activity can be planned in any open ground. It can be in gardens, parks or resort premises where team building activities are going on. As the name suggests, this activity aims at building trust among team participants. The activity takes place in pairs where one is the leader and the other is the blindfolded follower who has to overcome a variety of challenges as per verbal cues are given by his partner.
At the beginning of the activity, the blindfolded participant is spun several times to leave him confused and to come out of this quagmire, he has to trust the verbal cues given by his partner. The activity requires to make effective use of verbal communication and there is no touching allowed.
Double Dragon
This team-building activity takes place in an open ground. The focus of the activity is on building close collaboration among team members. A spirit of healthy competition is also inculcated among them. In this activity, each team makes an effort to cross checkpoints and reach the finale point while competing with each other.
The teams are challenged to race against each other with a facilitator helping to ensure smooth implementation and execution of the activity. One of the team members is blindfolded and guided by others in the team, he is transported through a hula hoop. If this activity sounds very simple to you, listen to an additional challenge that has been given to the team. The blindfolded person has to balance a beach ball between his feet while moving and overcoming a variety of hurdles and challenges.
Tic Tac Toe
This outdoor team building activity is set to add more fun, enthusiasm, and excitement in the employee’s outing. This activity is just a bigger and more exciting version of the age-old game of tic tac toe that every one of us has played at some point in our life.
The activity has been made to be more interesting and exciting by ensuring that the moves are made by a different member. If there is even a single miss, the entire team loses. Thus, there are a lot of groans and squeals of laughter while indulging in this activity.
Holey Pipes
It is another exciting and exhilarating outdoor team building activity. In this activity, the entire team has to come together and collaborate closely. They have to work fast as this is a timebound activity. Limited water has to be used to fish out a ball from a pipe with a lot of holes. Every team get some basic materials like cups, a bucket of water, and a pipe which has been pierced to create a lot of holes.
A ball is present at the bottom of the pipe and water has to be used to scout out that ball. Since water and cups are limited, it gets easily spilt through the holes making it difficult to fish out the ball. The entire team has to make efforts and indulge in some innovative thinking to be successful in the game.
Jumbo Cricket
Cricket has always been one of the most favourite games all around the world. In this enjoyable team activity, there is a twist. The bat and the ball both are in bigger sizes. The bat is almost 10 feet wide weighing 50 kgs. Using this bat, one of the teams has to hit an equally large-sized ball. Each team can have 8–20 members. The baller, as well as the batting team, is expected to manoeuvre the bat in such a way that the ball gets hit and runs are made.
The team that scores the highest number of runs in specified overs wins the game. It inculcates team bonding while at the same time fun and excitement running through the team.
The Interlocker
It is one of the most interesting and exciting outbound team building games. Each team is assigned with 15 interlocking planks. They have to use these planks and assemble them together as the design blueprint given to them. The team learns how to build strategies and how to implement them successfully to get the desired results.
The above-mentioned outdoor team building activities help employees to forget about the stress and strain of office work and feel refreshed and rejuvenated with these activities. Barriers seem to get broken down and people tend to come closer to each other forging new friendships and relationships. The excitement in the teams is palpable and can be found to great advantage in the workspace. It is for these benefits, organizations prefer planning and executing team building activities from time to time.
