https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 10 May 2026 09:33:49 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760586 Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:11:42 +0000 Mommy Finger 2760586@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@My Only Sunshine: I love the idea of a human pyramid!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760581 Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:43:47 +0000 My Only Sunshine 2760581@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mommy Finger: When I was in college I was in a group that did a photo scavenger hunt. So fun and you don't have to get any physical objects. And you can do a slideshow of the pictures of all the groups.</p> <p>I'm sure there are ideas online. The only ones I remember were a photo of a group member at the library reading an embarrassing book, your group members eating a snack, and a human pyramid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760556 Fri, 21 Jul 2017 09:23:43 +0000 sunny 2760556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did Minute to Win It style games for one team building event and it was really fun. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760507 Fri, 21 Jul 2017 00:05:58 +0000 Chuckles 2760507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did a fun and successful team building activity during my school district's opening day last year. Teams competed to build the tallest free standing structure out of only straws and masking tape. People got pretty into it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760479 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:47:03 +0000 MaryM 2760479@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've never done it with hidden clues, just a list of like 20 things and a race to see who can get the most in a set amount of time </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760464 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:59:41 +0000 kitty 2760464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I saw a mall scavenger hunt taking place recently and it looked like they were taking pics of themselves at various locations, which made me think a good way to prevent prepping the locations might be that each team texts you a pic when they get to the right spot and you text back the next clue. Then you could put up all the pics in a slideshow or on a noticeboard and maybe even have prizes for silliest or most creative pics? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760441 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:51:24 +0000 erinbaderin 2760441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mommy Finger: If you have the space you can set up your own escape room, my department has done it twice. You'd need multiple rooms, do the same thing in each one, and teams can compete to see who can get it fastest. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760392 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:35:04 +0000 MaryM 2760392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haven't done it for work, but my family has done them as part of Christmas parties. We usually spend the night in different small towns nearby. The hunts are pretty generic (find a used ticket stub, a license plate from X state, get a video of you pumping someone's gas, find a promotional pen). Usually actual objects are worth two points, a photo is worth one (photos are easier to get)</p> <p>We've done them specifically holiday themed, and themed to the location we're in. They haven't been super disruptive because there's only 5 or 6 of us, and one time we did it, there was actually a huge group of teenagers doing their own scavenger hunt. </p> <p>If you want sort of ice breaker type games, you could look up minute to win it games on pinterest. (like Erin's second suggestion). We also do a day camp for the younger girls in our family and do games like that and some are team based. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to throw pom poms and catch them in a solo cup! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760385 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:20:37 +0000 Mommy Finger 2760385@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Truth Bombs: @yoursilverlining: I have looked into Escape Rooms as they're popping up everywhere around here. The issue is that most places only have 1 room available. We'd have about 4 teams that would need to go so it would be a 4 hour commitment and and the party room available was kind of crappy. </p> <p>@yoursilverlining: your concerns about the mall scavenger hunt are ones we've discussed and were going to look further into. I would imagine the things we need to find would be too disruptive and would be photo based (take a picture of a price tag that ends in $.99 or something like that). We also discussed volunteering and will do that at a later date.</p> <p>@erinbaderin: I really like the paper airplane game! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760377 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:08:38 +0000 looch 2760377@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hosted one for my group at a local sports place, they had an actual program. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760376 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:58:22 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 2760376@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did an activity in high school where we did a scavenger hunt around town. There were four or five locations and each location had a different task. You got the first envelope with a clue to the first location. Each group started at a different location. The one I remember most clearly was a grocery store where you had to buy different items. We were teenagers, so we didn't know our way around as well as I do as an adult, but there was very random things on it - (we had a really hard time finding the barley), soy sauce, a specific flavor baby food, etc. Another location was a Target or something and we had to find a specific color shirt or something. It was fun, but I imagine it was a lot of work to put together.<br /> At the end, everything that was purchased was donated to a local homeless shelter. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760373 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:55:03 +0000 Truth Bombs 2760373@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would totally look into an escape room place! You'd have to break into small groups but if you have enough time to plan in advance you could probably just book all their rooms at the same time. It's an AWESOME team building experience. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760372 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:49:42 +0000 helloperidot 2760372@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our team of about 30 people went to a low ropes course one time. We split into two groups to do rope activities, met up again for lunch, split for more activities, then did one big group activity at the end. It was really fun and low pressure (if you just wanted to watch and cheer from the sidelines, that was cool too). Probably my favorite team building activity I've ever done. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760371 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:49:26 +0000 yoursilverlining 2760371@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think a scavenger hunt would be fun. The concerns that come to mind are how much in advance planning/work you would have to do to set it up (unless it’s like “find the Coach store” or organized around mall fixtures already in place) and whether the mall management would be ok with a scavenger hunt taking place. </p> <p>I recently had to organize team building activities and also partook in some organized by someone else and the best ones were going to an escape room (although that holds about 8 people max so you would need to further divide into teams and go into different rooms of the escape room place), and also doing team volunteering. </p> <p>The best volunteering one I organized were to a local soup kitchen (where we both made the food and then served) and to assemble “snack packs” for a local elementary school, which is basically a gallon sized ziplock bag filled with a variety of nonperishable snacks for children facing food insecurity. Additionally the bags all contain a notecard with some kind of uplifting phrase on it like “keep up the good work!”, or “we care about you!”. The cards sound silly but apparently mean A LOT to the kids, and making them provided a creative outlet for the team. Both of these were pretty minimal advance work to set up.</p> <p>For smaller-scale team building activities that are not too lame, something as easy as dividing into smaller teams and coming up with (at least) 10 things you all have in common outside of work-related things is fun. It forces you to share about yourself and learn about others. It’s a good ice breaker activity. </p> <p>Our team also did Jeopardy with fun random facts about different team members. That was definitely more work to put together but people had a lot of fun with it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760369 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:44:07 +0000 erinbaderin 2760369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My husband's office did this - not in a mall, exactly, but an underground shopping path. They seemed to have a lot of fun.</p> <p>Two fairly quick ones that my office has done recently have been:</p> <p>1) a paper airplane competition. Everybody makes an airplane and stands in a large circle. You all throw your airplane, and then try to catch another one. Everybody who doesn't catch one is out. Continue until only one person is left standing.</p> <p>2) Divide into teams (probably 5-7 people). Each team needs a chair and a plate of Ritz crackers, or something similar. One at a time you sit in the chair, tip your head back, put a cracker on your forehead, and try to get it into your mouth without using your hands. Whichever team manages to eat the most crackers in their mouth in five minutes wins. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/mall-scavenger-hunt-ideas-and-other-team-building-activities#post-2760365 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 13:32:55 +0000 Mommy Finger 2760365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm tasked with planning a group event for my team. There will be around 25-30 people total. We have had a lot of new faces on the team so we really want to focus on some good team building activities. It'll be an entire day event where we will do some team building activities in the morning, have some speakers from around the company, do lunch and then go offsite for another activity. </p> <p>One of the things we thought would be fun for offsite activity would be a scavenger hunt where we can break into teams. Since we're in the suburbs, we would need to go somewhere to do this so I was thinking we could go to the large outdoor mall that's nearby. Has anyone done something like this? Any suggestions on the types of things we should ask the teams to do?</p> <p>Also, have you done any other team building activities that weren't super lame? :) </p>