Fun Team Games

The party season is here, what with Halloween and Christmas and New Year coming one after the other, it's the time to party. In a party, it's not always that everyone will know all of whom you invite. If people know each other, then the party becomes more fun and enjoyable. But, if half the group does not know anyone, and each move separately in a pack, talking only to those whom they know, then there is no fun. What do you think can be the best ice breaker this time? What else but some good fun team games! Just divide your guests into teams, making sure that the teams are made of people who do not know each other and then after playing a game or two or some activities, your party will just rock! Want to know what kind of team games you can play? Here are some ideas.

Games for Adults

The games meant for kids and adults are separate. What the kids will enjoy, the adults of course won't. So here are some ideas for fun team building games for adults.

Truth and Lie
Divide the group of adults into two or more groups depending on the number of people who are present. Then make them sit in a circle and give them a card on which they have to write at least two truths about themselves and one lie. Collect the cards and shuffle them. Then pick up each card and read out the truths and the lies and let the others guess who has written it and also let them guess which is the lie. This is a fun team building activity for adults and it will also help the guests to get to know each other well.

The Creator
Have at least two or more teams and give them some imaginary product, say a magical lamp, and ask them to find out funny and exciting ways to advertise the product. This will need team effort, hence this is a fun adult team building game. Provide the teams with a time limit and have a small reward for the team with the best imagination.

Word Game
In this game, after dividing the people into one or two teams, have the leader or the host call out a letter from the English alphabet. Let each team try and form words as quickly as possible. The team which forms the words quickest, scores more.

Games for Kids and Teenagers

Kids and teenagers, when in a party full of grown ups and others kids whom they do not know, get nothing but bored. They cannot take part in the games meant for adults. So what now? Well, there are team games for teenagers and kids as well, which they will enjoy playing. It will also help them to get to know each other well. Given below are some great outdoor as well as indoor team building activities for kids and teens.

Snake in the Gutter
Form a group of two with the kids; one the snakes and one group as the kid who will cross the gutter. Make the snakes stand in a straight line, facing the other group. There should be wide spaces between each 'snake'. When everyone is ready, shout 'snake in the gutter' and let the other kids who are not the snakes try and run through the 'snakes in the gutter'. If they cross over without being touched by the snake, well and good, but if they are tagged by the snakes, they have to join them and try and tag the other kids.

Freeze Tag
This is another fun team building game, which kids will enjoy playing. This is another outdoor game. Have one kid who will run and try to tag the others. If this kid succeeds in tagging one person, the second person will just freeze and remain like that till some other kid from his team comes and goes through his leg. There will be lot of running around, so make sure that there is enough space to play.

Games to Play at Work

Sometimes, at work, people get so busy with all their deadlines and business matters, that they hardly have time to socialize with each other and get to know their team members well. Sometimes, they get so involved with office politics that they are always at each others throat. The only way to get rid of this problem is by organizing some team building games for the workplace, so that one gets to know each other well and also learns all about team spirit and team building.

Charades
In this game, collect some slips of paper which mentions the names of maybe movies or songs or name of a book. Ask a member from each group to come up and pick a slip and whatever that person picks up, he or she has to act it out for his team and they in turn have to guess the correct answer. The person who is acting, of course cannot talk. The team that guesses first, gets more points and the team with maximum points, wins.

Capture the Flag
Mark two territories with some sort of a boundary like some cones or boxes and then, form two teams. Mark their boundary and give them a flag or a piece of cloth to hide in their own territory. Now let the members of the other team find out the other team's flag in the opponents territory, but they should not get caught by their opponents. If they are caught, then the person is to be put in the jail of the opponent team and has to stay out of the game unless he or she is released by his teammates. The game gets over when the opponent team's flag is found.

These fun games are great to break the ice at parties or social occasions and initiate team bonding. It is also a great way to build up a team and teach people how to work in a team, together. No more will those parties seem boring now, for kids or for adults.