Team Building

We've created ready-to-use activities to help foster team building.

You may use these as they are or adjust them to meet your agency's needs.

Please ask participants to complete this post-activity survey to help us improve future wellness programming.

Well-being

Are You Puzzled?: Employees work together to complete a jigsaw puzzle and practice teamwork.
Focus Word Breathing: This simple activity helps participants relax and reduce stress.
Getting to Know Your Team: This fun guessing game helps employees learn interesting facts about their co-workers.
Gratitude Scavenger Hunt: This easy activity supports cognitive health by encouraging participants to focus on gratitude. It can be completed individually or as a team.
Joy Jar: This activity helps employees focus on positive moments and share joys with co-workers.
Laughter Yoga: Get the room giggling with feel-good endorphins!
Let's Tell a Story!: Employees work together to create a fun and engaging story as a group.
Speed Networking: This activity helps employees get to know one another through short, one-minute conversations focused on health and wellness topics.
Well-being Scavenger Hunt: This easy activity supports cognitive health. Participants may complete it individually or as a team.
Wellness Word Scramble: This activity challenges participants to solve wellness-related word scrambles. It can be completed individually or as a team.
Wellness Word Search: Participants search for wellness-related words in this easy and engaging activity. It may be completed individually or as a team.
Word Picture Puzzles: This activity supports cognitive health by solving picture-based word puzzles. Participants may work individually or as a team.

Physical Activity

Battle of Air Bands: Move over karaoke! This team activity adds fun and movement by having small groups perform a song using air instruments and lip-syncing.
Beach Ball Toss: This interactive activity helps employees learn more about each other by answering questions during a beach ball toss.
Charades: Participants act out words or phrases in this classic game that encourages laughter and teamwork.
Pass the Baton Relay: Work as a team to complete a walking relay. Each person will complete a leg of the relay.
Stretch Break: This activity adds short stretch breaks to meetings or the workday. Stretching supports movement, flexibility, focus and overall well-being.
Virtual Scavenger Hunt: Participants race against the clock the find specific items in their office or home workspace.
Walking Club: This activity encourages employees to meet regularly for walks. Walking together supports physical health and helps build connections with co-workers.
Active Meeting: This activity adds movement to meetings while staying productive. Active meetings can boost energy, creativity and focus.
Who or What Am I?: This guessing game has participants wear a card with a character or object and ask others for clues to figure out what is on their card.
Physical Activity Trivia: This interactive trivia activity focuses on physical activity topics.

Healthy Eating

Breakfast Crossword: Test your knowledge of healthy breakfast foods with this interactive crossword puzzle.
Eat Your Veggies Word Scramble: This quick activity challenges participants to solve vegetable-themed word scrambles.
Fats & Oils Quiz: Participants test their nutrition knowledge about fats and oils through a 14-question quiz.
Holiday Food Word Search: This seasonal activity challenges participants to find traditional holiday foods in a word search.
Label Me Healthy Crossword Puzzle: This crossword puzzle helps participants learn more about nutrition labels and healthy food choices.
Taste Test: This activity encourages employees to try new foods by working in teams to guess what they're tasting. Before hosting, be sure to ask participants about food allergies and dietary restrictions.