25 Community Building Activities and Games | Back to School | Team Building
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These community building activities and games are perfect for the first weeks of school! Students will use collaboration and teamwork which will build a positive learning community in your classroom. These unique challenges and games will be different than most of the "getting to know you" activities your students have done in previous years.
These activities are not just designed to be used only the first week of school, but give the perfect opportunity to build friendships, teamwork, and create a positive class culture. They could also be used for team building, recess, morning meeting, or SEL.
There are so many benefits to using team building activities: boosts engagement, builds trust and confidence, increases productivity and engages students in creative dialogue. Students will participate in fun and engaging activities while learning about each other in the process.
Resource includes 25 activities and games including templates/printables for each activity along with teacher information, directions, reflection pages. Each activity includes directions and variations of ways to use each activity in your classroom.
Activities included:
- Affirmation Station
- What Do We Have in Common?
- What Would You Do?
- Have You Ever?
- I Wish...
- Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Headbands
- Who's Missing?
- Go For the Gold
- Two Truths and a Lie
- What's in the Backpack?
- Which Is Worse?
- Guess Who?!
- Solve the Puzzle
- The Numbers Game
- Build It and They Will Come
- Put It All Together
- Up, Up, and Away
- Rainbow Friends
- Connection Web
- Paper Chain Challenge
- Hula Hoop Race
- The Web We Weave
- Snowball Fight
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