When you meet with your volunteer team, it's beneficial to do a team building activity. It brings you closer together and strengthens your unity.
Here are 10 ideas you can use for upcoming meetings.
2 Truths and a Lie
Have everyone secretly write down two truths
about themselves and one lie on a small piece of paper. Go around and have people read their 3 statements. Have everyone try to guess which one is the lie.
This activity encourages better communication and helps you get to know each other better.
Egg Drop
Split the group into teams. Teams work together to build an egg holder that can sustain an eight foot drop. Provide a variety of materials such as paper towels, tape, cardboard, yarn, etc. Give teams 10-15 minutes to build their holder. Have groups take turns dropping their egg and see if it survives the fall. This activity teaches team members to work together and communicate. You can follow up with some debrief questions like:
- How is protecting the egg like protecting our vision?
- What did you learn about teamwork?
- You worked together to keep the egg from cracking when it was dropped. How can we work together to see kids faith not crack when they grow up?
- What did it take to turn over the plastic?
- How is this like making needed changes in our ministry?
- I am…
- I have never…
- I love to…
- I would never…
- The best way for me to relax is…
- The funniest thing that ever happened to me was…
- The most important decision I ever made in my life was…
- If you could choose your age forever, what age would you choose and why?
- If you could be in the movie of your choice, what movie would you choose and what character would you play?
- If you could meet any historical figure, who would you choose and why?
- If you were a candy bar, which candy bar would you be? Share why.
- Are you spring, summer, fall, or winter? Please share why.
- If you were stranded on a desert island, what three items would you want to have with you?
- The most unbelievable thing…
- What favorite color are you and how does being that color make you feel?
- If you could choose an imaginary friend, who would you choose and why?
- If you could sit on a bench in a beautiful woods, who would you like sitting next to you on the bench and why?
- Are you sunrise, daylight, twilight, or night? Please share why you picked your time of day?
- The thing that makes me laugh is…
- There is nothing I enjoy more than…
- I would love to visit...
- If I had a time machine, I would go back to visit...
- The best present I ever received was...
- My favorite place to eat is...
- My favorite holiday is...
- How did you work together to get untangled?
- How is this like working together on our team?
Group Juggle
Have everyone stand in an inward facing circle. Ask the group to toss a ball among themselves in a specific order. As the activity develops, more balls are introduced and the pressure to work well as a group increases. Here are some debrief questions you can ask.
- How did it feel when more balls were added?
- How is this like what can happen in our ministry?
- What did it take to keep the balls going?
- What does it take to keep our ministry going?