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7 Fun Team Building Activities For Teens

Nov 9, 2021 | Activities | 0 Comments | 278

Due to zoom school and being cooped up at home for almost 2 years, teens have been isolated both emotionally and physically. With schools opening up now, teens are slowly being inducted back into their school environment. To make this transition easier,  try engaging your kids in some team-building activities for teens so that they can build up their camaraderie and go back to the olden days of unbridled joy and fun with their friends.  Here are 7 group activities for teens you can try! 

Scavenger Hunt- There’s nothing like a well-designed scavenger hunt to build team spirit! Scavenger or treasure hunts is one of the most effective team-building activities for teens as it engages them together and employs their collaborative skills to solve clues. Try making it more interesting for your teens by making the scavenger hunt centered around a familiar theme, say, for example, their favorite mystery book series, their favorite series, or sports. When teens try their hand at problem-solving in a collaborative environment, their group dynamic improves enabling them to function better as a whole! 

A Team Sport- The best group activities for teens undoubtedly includes sports. Sports not only have physical and health benefits but also countless benefits for your teen’s emotional and mental health. Enrolling your teen in a group sport, say football or cricket, sets a strong foundation for a collaborative spirit in the later years. Playing a group sport engages your child to build strategies and co-operation in an intense environment, enabling them to function better as a group. In a team sport, teens have to depend on their dynamic as a group to either win together or lose together.  Playing a sport is one of the most efficient ways to build your teen’s team spirit. Refuel your budding sports stars with some healthy snacks and drinks later!

Puzzle Solving- This is an interesting activity. Divide the teens into two groups, and give them a mildly difficult jigsaw puzzle to be pieced together in under 10 minutes. The teens might think that this activity is only competition so their focus will be to get the pieces together as soon as possible. This is a teaching moment, as the competition not only tests their ability as a group to work under pressure but also sees whether they can prioritize co-operation over competition.  After the puzzle building is over, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the strategies of both groups and discuss what they can do better to work as a collective. 

Talking About Fears- A great example of team-building activities for teens, any unifying experience includes some sort of emotional catharsis in a supportive environment.  

• You can facilitate this by being the moderator and asking your teens to write their fears on a piece of paper. 
• The moderator needs to start this activity by first talking about the nature of fear and assuring the participants that it is a safe and secure environment to share and ask each participant individually their understanding of fear.
•  To make it easier on your teens to write their fears down would be to add an unfinished sentence for them- ‘I am afraid that…’ and then let them plug in the rest of the sentence. 
• Once that is done, shuffle the pieces of paper together, and ask each participant to pick one. 
• The participant then picks up the chit and reads the content, after which they give their own understanding of what the writer is going through and what he thinks the writer can do to overcome this.
• Continue this till everyone gets a chance to speak.

Silent Line Up- This is a great way to test your teen’s ability to work as a team, and really challenge their dynamic as a group. In this game, the teens have to complete the activity without using words. A great example of group activities for teens, this surely pushes the envelope. The teens have to line up the smallest shoe to the largest in the group without speaking. Using non-verbal cues and gestures, teens have to rely on their collaborative nature to align them under a specific time limit. A fun, creative way to challenge their dynamic as a team, this game truly helps build the team spirit!

Craft A Story- A great way to build group cohesion among your teens, is by asking them to craft a story from scratch.  The teens have to divide the work amongst themselves, so one person can do the intro, the other can do the main story and the other can conclude. This activity truly tests your teens’ ability to coordinate and work together as a group to craft an engaging narrative story. 

Escape Room- This activity is something similar to a scavenger hunt, but an amped-up version of it. This is the ultimate test of your teens’ ability to work as a group. In this activity, the group is locked inside a room, and the only way to get a key to get themselves out is to solve the clues that will lead them to the key. The group is forced to collaborate and coordinate amongst themselves to free themselves. The clues that can lead them to the key can be mathematical problems, codes, or even trivia questions or puzzles that require the teens to work together. You can also set a time limit, and if they don’t finish the puzzles within that time, the clues get harder! A fun way to test your teen’s ability to work in groups, an escape room is truly one of the greatest team-building activities for teens.

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