ACTIVITIES
Develop team work, planning, listening and leadership
skills
Golf ball Challenge:
Teamwork, communication, planning & Patience
The team members each get a half pipe in which a golf ball will roll. The goal is to get the ball from point A
to point B without dropping or touching the ball, once the ball is with you, you are not allowed to walk with it
and after you passed the ball on to the next person you have to run to the front of the line in order to extend
the channel the ball has to roll in.
4x4 Slides - Teamwork:
Communication, planning & Patience
A pair of planks with space for five people is given to each team. The ropes attached to the plank provides
each person something to hold on to while they attempt to walk from the start to the finish lines. Exact co-
ordination (teamwork) is required to achieve this.
Frog Islands:
Leadership, planning, communication & teamwork
The team has to get from point A to point B by means of ranging planks on pedestals placed strategic
distances away from each other. The planks, cut to specific lengths are provided to join these pedestals,
and the team must work out the right sequence of placing the planks. One team member might be blind
folded at any time so teamwork, planing and communication is essential.
Spiders Web:
Leadership, planning, teamwork & Trust
A maize of different size holes is maid to portray a spiders web. Team members have to slide, crawl or get
pushed through these holes without touching the sides of the hole. Each hole may only be used once.
Careful planing and teamwork is essential.
Life Line:
Trust & Communication
A guide line is pulled around trees and over obstacles. One person is blind folded and has to be guided
through this course by another team member. None of them are allowed to be separated from each other or
the guide line. Clear instruction from the non blindfolded member is essential. Improve communication
skills.
Puzzle solving:
Teamwork and planning.
The name says it all. the team needs to retrieve all the puzzle pieces by going through the swimming pool,
This is also a race and each member can only take one piece at a time, and only one team member is
allowed in the pool at a specific time. Once all the pieces is retrieved the puzzle needs to be put together.
Roll a Ball:
Planning, Trust & Patience
A maize game. Four golf balls have to be rolled from the corners of the board through the maize to the
centre of the board. The participants have to hold on to the ropes attached to the four corners of the board
and lift or drop their corner in order to get the balls rolling in the right direction. To increase the difficulty,
participants may also be blindfolded and guided by other team members
Toxic Waste:
Planning, Teamwork & Communication
Teams each receives a number of different lengths of rope and bungy cord, with witch they need to
retrieve a bucket of water in the middle of a “TOXIC” square. the ropes are to short to use individually,
careful planing and teamwork is required.
Mine Field:
Leadership, team work & communication
One team member is blind folded and has to be guided through a course filled with obstacles by a team
member, that is only allowed to stand at the finish line. No obstacles are allowed to be touched.
Fill the pipe:
Team work, planning & communication
The team receive a few lengths of pipe with a number of holes in each section. They must figure out how to
fix the sections together to minimise water loss. Some team members must now try to close - by any means
- as much holes as possible white the other members try to fill the pipe with buckets of water retrieved from
the nearby river. In the pipe is a ball, and the team that fills the pipe until the ball falls out of the pipe is the
winning team.
Chicken Toss:
Planning, teamwork, fun & competition
This is a catapult game where the competitors have to flick an obstacle into a crate on top of a tripod
structure by stepping down onto the opposite side of the plank. you need to control the amount of power
you put into your step and your aim is critical. Planning and communication is acquired.
Netball Challenge;
Fun & competition
Shoot for the win. Each member needs to throw a netball through the loop from around two meters away.
The first team to finish wins.
Mud Swing:
Fun & Adventure
A rope swing over a muddy hole is the obstacle that lies before the team. Each member has to get across
either on their own or with some assistance from team members.
Mud rope slide:
Fun & Adventure
A rope that must be used to slide over a muddy hole is the obstacle that lies before the team. Each member
has to get across either on their own or with some assistance from team members.
Swimming pool games:
Fun & relaxation
A variety of fun games in and around the swimming pool. You do not need to know how to swim to
participate, but you need to know how to enjoy yourself.
And many more….
A variety of activities: