This is another one of my go to team-building retreat games. It’s fun, tests personal boundaries and forces teens to work together. It takes very little prep and no real supplies, but be sure that no one in your group’s ever lost someone close to a shark attack – if so, change the name to…
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Name Duels
This game is one of my favorite activities after confirmation or when there are a number of new people in the group. It’s one of the best name-games I know, and it’s silly and fun and my youth will play it forever if I let them. This takes two volunteers, since I have yet to…
Leading the Blind…
This one is an oldie, but I was talking to someone the other day, and they had never heard of it, so here we are. I like to use this activity to lead a group to a prayer session on retreat or into a more serious activity on mission trip. It works well to focus…
Group Lunch
This team-building game is an easy add-on to any retreat or overnight. It’s little prep and low-cost. You will need a bandana per person and a meal to eat. I usually have the teens pack a lunch or if you are in a cafeteria setting, that works too. Ordering pizza is less of a challenge,…
Epic Blind Counting
This one is a great team building activity for any size group, but especially large groups. It’s no set-up, no prep, and can be a great activity to do on the fly. Have the group circle up facing outward. You can have them link arms or touch shoulders, but it doesn’t matter, as long as…
Balanced
This game was born out of a fallen tree outside our retreat center several years ago. I am always looking for good team-building activities, and this panned out nicely. I had all of the teens stand on the log in a straight line. From that position, they had to reverse the order of themselves on…
Speed Interviews
One of my favorite retreat ice breakers is called Speed Interviews. They cram a whole lotta meeting in a short amount of time, needs little or no prep, and can be a ton of fun. Partner your group off with people they don’t know, if there is an odd number, you participate. The pairs then…
Circle of Death
This is an activity that I have used for larger retreats with ABSURDLY great results. There is a little prep, but there are no supplies needed, other than a piece of paper ripped into strips, as many strips as there are people in the group. As I said, I like using this activity with larger…
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