30 Must-Try Team Building Activities For Large Groups

Team building activities allow individuals to showcase their strengths and talents within a group setting.
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Table of Contents

Introduction
1. 30 Team Building Activities
  2.1 Marshmallow Challenge
  2.2 Corporate Castaways
  2.3 Charity Bike Buildathon
  2.4 Virtual Escape Rooms
  2.5 Team Building Ice Breaker Questions
  2.6 Company Potluck
  2.7 Community Service
  2.8 Employee Beach Day
  2.9 Lunchtime Picnic
  2.10 Field Day
  2.11 Bigger and Better
  2.12 Word Association
  2.13 Conferences
  2.14 After-Work Running Day
  2.15 Perfect Square
  2.16 Painting
  2.17 Two Truths And A Lie
  2.18 Random Acts of Kindness
  2.19 Volunteering
  2.20 One Minute to Win It
  2.21 Virtual Happy Hour Trivia
  2.22 Virtual Trivia Championship
  2.23 House Party
  2.24 Never Have I Ever
  2.25 Wild Goose Chase
  2.26 Scavenger Hunt
  2.27 Bubble Football
  2.28 Water Gun Fight
  2.29 Keep Up The Balloons
  2.30 Where Do You Stand?
  3 To Sum It Up

If you are a large organization and are looking for practical, engaging, and fun activities to introduce to your team members, you’re in the right place.

When it comes to a large-sized team, choosing and planning the perfect team-building activity can be taxing, but it’s not impossible. If you think engaging a large group of people in the workplace in some team-building activity might may not be as effective as smaller groups, the ideas we’ll show you will prove you wrong.

Team building activities for large groups, when done right, yield effective results. Engaging large groups can generate more ideas and diverse opinions, more people are available to complete tasks, and there will also be more feedback that influences a more remarkable change.

Don’t hesitate to get your large team on board. To save you the hassle of going through activities and ideas you’ll see online that are not feasible for your bigger-than-average teams, we’ve selected 30 must-try best team-building activities for large groups. Go through it and try them out!

30 Team Building Activities

Just as you might have thought, there had to be special team-building activities that are well suited to teams with up to or more than 20 members.

Some of these activities can be done indoors, while others can only be done outdoors. We also made sure to list virtual team-building ideas that you can engage your team with, anywhere, anytime. So what are some of these awesome activities for large groups?

Let’s dive in.

1. Marshmallow Challenge

**Caption: Marshmallow challenge is a game that helps to boost leadership spirit and create an atmosphere to hone flawless teamwork amongst teammates.**

In this challenge, your team members try to build a tower as high as possible using ingredients like marshmallows, and this requires teamwork, communication, and leadership. As more people play, even if they are all working towards a similar goal, different members will have different ideas that they’ll share for everyone to decide on. By setting a timer, you can determine the length of this game and increase the pressure.

2. Corporate Castaways

**Caption: This game boosts teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills in players, making it perfect for building a team.**

Corporate castaway is a challenge played by many people in an open space. Different games and challenges are set on a field or any open space with different groups to solve them. The group that solves the most challenges gets the highest score and wins.

3. Charity Bike Buildathon

**Caption: Charity Bike Buildathon teaches your team to work together as a force for good and help the community with unique projects.**

This activity involves coming together as a team to build and design children’s bicycles—the bigger the group, the more bikes that can be made. After the buildathon, the bikes are then donated to any charity organization of your choice.

4. Virtual Escape Room

**Caption: Virtual Escape is an activity that helps team members understand the importance of effective communication, problem-solving skills, and teamwork.**

A virtual escape room is an activity where you trap your team members in a virtual environment with leads and tricks on how to escape. There are various types of virtual escape rooms. From Mummies Jewel, Lost In The Arctic Escape, to Grand Theft Escape, you can choose many challenging environments and explain the instructions to your team.

5. Team Building Icebreaker Questions

**Caption: The purpose of this activity is to allow every team member to get along and learn from each other by answering icebreaker questions.**

Ice breakers are especially great for teams with new members. The team comes together and goes through a list of ice-breaking questions so they start to get to know each other. It’s a straightforward activity that will incite discussions and laughter.

6. Company Potluck

**Caption: This is an enjoyable event where your employees or a large group of workers share homemade meals.**

Company Potluck is an indoor activity where the entire team eats together in the spirit of home-cooked food. The only tweak to this activity is that everyone has to bring a snack or a meal from home, which is all shared by everyone

7. Community Service

**Caption: The essence of community service is to teach team members to voluntarily assist the community without expecting any reward. The larger the group, the better.**

When performing community service, the more people, the better. Set a day or two aside to help grow and sustain your immediate community. Community service ideas include environmental sanitation, health awareness programs, visiting orphanages, etc. Your team will learn to help and how we can make real change, together.

8. Employee Beach Day

**Caption: This activity creates an opportunity for all members of your team to enjoy a relaxing time together at the beach.**

A beach day for your large group of workmates is a fun activity that can involve various recreational activities. Set aside a day to visit the beach, and plan fun games you can play, like beach volley, surfing, or just enjoying a tan. Beach day gives your team members a healthy escape from work.

9. Lunchtime picnic

**Caption: This activity greatly impacts interpersonal bonding, well-being, and togetherness among teammates, which enhances teamwork.**

On a picnic, your team members share a meal in amazing scenery and make great memories together. Plan an outdoor picnic, on a day when everyone will be free to attend. You can hold picnics in open spaces like gardens and parks. All you need to do is provide essential items like blankets, picnic food baskets, sunscreen, etc.

10. Field Day

**Caption: The purpose of a field day is for everyone to let loose and relive their youth with a series of fun games in an open field.**

To hold field day, choose a day and make it a work-free day, and draft out other fun activities that everyone can engage in on the field. A quick Google search for “field day games” will do the trick. Announce a mystery prize for game winners to spice up the event and get your employees pumped up. May the best team win!

11. Bigger and Better

**Caption: This game helps your teammates boost their sales skills, in a fun atmosphere.**

In this activity, you divide your large groups into teams and give each team an invaluable object like a paperclip, pen, or office pin. The purpose of the game is for every team to try and convince the other team to exchange their object for more valuable items under a time limit. The team that returns with the most valuable item wins.

12. Word Association

**Caption: This is an indoor short game that encourages creativity and engagement in a large group.**

In word association, a large group is divided into smaller teams while sitting in a circle. Afterwards., each team is provided with one word. One person starts by saying the word and going around in a circle, and the next person says a different word closely associated with the previous word – until time elapses.

13. Conferences

**Caption: Conferences and events help your team members network, improve their knowledge, and be influenced positively by other professionals’ accomplishments.**

Your team members can hone their skill set and gain more focus and determination toward their work by attending conferences and seminars together. Q and As will also help different people share unique ideas that will benefit the team. Another great thing about attending conferences is they can provide a nice break from your work environment and help workers to maintain a strong sense of workplace culture and enthusiasm.

14. After-work running day

**Caption: A running club encourages team members to achieve their goals together and creates something to look forward to after work.**

After a very stressful work day, running or jogging is a way to destress and have something to look forward to. You can create a running club with your team members and cover laps without necessarily racing. You can use an open field, a park, or a quiet street and run with your team members.

15. Perfect Square

**Caption: Perfect Square is a game or activity that teaches teamwork and also allows team members to bond.**

For this game, your team members are blindfolded while attempting to make a square with a rope. It’s simple, and it only has one rule: no peeking! There will be plenty of fun for everyone involved (even if they fail) and lots of teamwork to achieve the goal! A perfect square is also a perfect ice-breaker for teams with new members.

16. Painting

**Caption: Painting is a recreational activity that almost everyone enjoys. Organize painting contests to bring out your team members’ creative sides.**

To organize a painting session for your teammates, set aside a day and decide if it should be indoor or outdoor. You can provide canvases for each of your team members and lay out instructions on what everyone should paint. Either give them an idea to paint or let them go wild and see what they come up with.

17. Two Truths and a Lie

**Caption: This activity allows for a stronger connection in your team by mentioning random facts about each other.**

No matter how big your team is, they can get to know each other better with the Two Truths, One Lie game. The game is quite simple and straightforward – each person makes three statements about themselves. One of these statements is a lie. Everyone else tries to guess whether each statement is a truth or the lie.

18. Random Acts of Kindness

**Caption: Random Acts of Kindness is a generosity-inspired activity that can help everyone in the team build morale and maintain positive energy.**

For this activity, divide your large group into smaller teams that compete against each other to see who completes as many good deeds as possible before time runs out. It’s perfect for large groups because more people equals more positivity spread throughout your city.

19. Volunteering

**Caption: Engaging in volunteering activities helps build your team by creating opportunities to learn new ways to collaborate and help the community together.**

Volunteering is similar to community service. You and your team can get together to do voluntary work for the community like organizing a food drive, mentoring in a local school, working as event staff, hosting a fundraiser, organizing a blood drive or immunization, etc.

20. One Minute to Win it

**Caption: One minute to win it, is hyperactivity that builds competitiveness and resilience, especially in large groups.**

In the workplace, you can set aside free time to engage everyone in a one-minute challenge where they try to complete simple but tricky tasks in just one minute. It gives a healthy adrenaline rush as each member tries desperately to finish a task before time runs out.

21. Virtual Happy Hour Trivia

**Caption: Virtual Happy Hour Trivia is an activity that is perfect for bonding, engaging, and lifting team spirit.**

In this virtual team-building activity, you and your team will engage in a trivia game in Hamish McDuff’s virtual pub. This virtual pub game experience has more than 20 categories for you to choose from.

22. Virtual Trivia Championship

**Caption: This virtual trivia connects your team members over a shared experience and encourages involvement and healthy competition.**

The virtual trivia championship is great for teams with many members. This game has many activities and questions that will challenge your team to use more of their skills and improve their cognition to solve problems. Click here on the link, should you want to try it out with your team.

23. House Party

**Caption: A house party is can help promote interpersonal relationships and provide a healthy escape from work.**

A house party is held chiefly with many people, making it perfect for large groups. After that month-long work stress, you can have a house party for your teammates at a comfortable and spacious house where everyone will come and relax and gyrate. Dance competitions, games, and other exciting activities can be planned for a house party.

24. Never Have I Ever

**Caption: This fun and relaxing activity promotes engagement and reveals exciting and hilarious things about team members.**

In this game, the names of your team or group members are put down as each of them takes turns mentioning experiences they’ve never had. Before anyone starts, they have to start their sentences with “Never have I ever”. You’d likely have your team members pointing fingers and giving each other suspicious eyes, while everyone laughs.

25. Wild Goose Chase

**Caption: Wild Goose Chase is an activity perfect for building camaraderie and valuable teamwork among team members**

.Many people, from 20 to 100, can do this activity. It involves going out as a team to bond and explore the cities while keeping records of events, things, places, etc. The purpose of this activity is for everyone to get off work stress and pour some energy into going out in search of something new and exciting.

26. Scavenger Hunt

**Caption: Scavenger hunts help your team members develop their observation skills and improve their intuition on finding hidden facts or patterns under pressure.**

This is a fun activity involving team members looking for items you’ve hidden. To play this game, create small teams and develop good scavenger hunt ideas or challenges. Players must complete and find all hidden items as quickly as possible. The first team to find all items and complete all challenges wins the game.

27. Bubble football

**Caption: Bubble football encourages your team members to give their all without hesitating and gives them a confidence boost as they face challenges.**

In this exciting game, players enter an inflated ball that looks like a zorb while playing football. Everyone, including older members, can engage in this game as it is safe and engaging. Bubble football allows players to feel confident while playing, knowing that they can’t get bruised if they fall. You’d have your team members looking ridiculous while having fun.

28. Water Gun Fight

**Caption: Water gun fighting between colleagues is a fun way to engage and build the friendship needed for a progressive work relationship.**

Water gun fights are always better with more people to play. It involves fighting with water guns in an open space or field. Divide your large group into two teams while they wear different colored jerseys so they’re easy to identify. Then, the team that eliminates the most opponents with their water guns before time runs out, wins.

29. Keep Up The Balloons

**Caption: Keep Up The Balloon is an energetic game that promotes teamwork and challenges colleagues to exercise.**

Keep up the balloons is a game that requires players to keep balloons in the air for as long as possible. A group of team members are divided into two teams and given about 8-10 balloons each. Once the game starts, each team pushes the balloon in the air and keeps trying to avoid the balloon touching the ground. Once the set time elapses, the team with the most balloons in the air wins.

30. Where Do You Stand?

**Caption: This is an energizing game that helps everyone know more about other team members and their preferences.**

In this game, an open space or a large room is divided into two with a line of small cones and two teams on each side. A “this or that” question (like rice or pasta?) is asked with each side of the room representing both options. So, the players run to the side that represents their preferred option or answer to the “this or that” question.

To Sum It Up

Your team members will do the best work and produce the best results when they are in sync. So whether you have new employees in your organization or you’re trying to boost morale, engaging your employees in team building activities will help them bond, connect, and evolve into an unstoppable powerhouse that’ll smash through company goals.

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