During a play session, Playworkers are available to assist a child if needed, but strive to be as inconspicuous as possible to allow the children to direct their own play. Playworkers promote an adventuresome place for them to play, while keeping a watchful eye on them for their safety. Playwork has its origins in Europe, when during and after World War II, children were observed playing in the rubble of bombed out areas climbing in the debris and building forts and play things out of scrap lumber and other salvaged materials.
Lady Allen of Hurtwood was influenced by a Danish landscape architect, C. Sorenson, who had recognized that children enjoyed playing with loose parts , such as sticks, stones, boxes, ropes, and other open-ended play materials, more than the traditional playgrounds he had previously designed.
As the workers observed the children at play, they became real advocates for play and facilitated the play processes with more materials. These adventure playgrounds contain handmade climbing structures created by the children and playworkers, forts, dress up clothes, sand , water , and an ever-changing variety of loose parts for children to manipulate and use to create their own structures and play things.
How a game of run-around works, is everybody stands in a circle around the table, holding a bat. The two players at opposite ends of the table will start — one will serve the ball to the other.
However, upon hitting the ball, each player will begin making their way to the next side of the table, leaving the player behind them to return the next shot. Each time a player misses a shot, they sit out, until eventually only 2 people remain.
You can declare these joint winners, or have a play-off to determine the champion. If you want something a little more gentle, which takes up even less space, then a foosball table is a good alternative for sport. While it is not particularly physically active, it is suitable for players at a time, and can lend itself well to tournaments and leagues. In fact, a one-hour session of yoga probably produces enough sweat to fill a bucket.
But seriously, yoga can be a great way to help your team focus their minds and bodies. Not only does it boost concentration and energy levels, but it helps you keep your employees physically healthy. These games are exceptionally fun, and encourage your employees to really think outside the box, and get their creative juices flowing. In the story game, players sit in a big circle. Each player takes a blank piece of paper, and writes the first sentence of a story. Once done, everybody passes their paper to the person on their left.
The next person reads the previous sentences, then writes the next sentence. However, before passing this on, they fold the previous sentence over so that it cannot be seen.
This way, each player is only ever following on from the very last sentence in the story. This can make the stories disjointed, surprising, and most of all, hilarious. Once the bottom of the page is reached, the story ends.
And everybody reads out the end result to the rest of the group. Similar to the story game, players sit in a circle and each take a piece of blank paper. Everybody draws a head, of any sort — it could be a gentleman with a moustache and a hat, or it could be a 7-eyed octopus. Once done, players fold the paper over so that only the very bottom part of the head is showing.
These heads get passed to the left, and then each player draws a torso and arms if indeed arms are required! Again, this gets folded and passed. A paper plane competition is a great way to encourage creative thinking, while promoting careful planning and craftsmanship, and tying in a bit of healthy competitive spirit. You can give out numerous prizes for the planes your colleagues build — including the plane to fly the farthest, and the plane that stays in the air for longest.
Take a regular Jenga set, and divide all blocks between players. Ask employees to take a pen, and write down a different scenario on each block. For example, if you wanted to keep this game work-related, you could ask players to write down a situation that might happen in the workplace.
You can ask for serious scenarios e. Then, set up the game as normal. When a player removes a block, they must read the scenario, and then describe to the rest of the room how they would deal with it. We like the idea of hosting a quiz once a week, or once a month. You can run this for individuals or for teams. Pick an appropriate subject matter, and create a quiz with around questions — that tends to be the ideal number.
You might want to provide snacks and drinks. Obviously, this is a fairly seasonal game… but actually, you can play this all year round. Just call it something else! In a game of Secret Santa, all participants put their own name into a hat, and then draw a secret name back out. They will be buying a gift for this person, in secret.
Another seasonal little game, but one that can make your office look super spooky for Halloween — while providing lots of fun in the run up. You can either set up a pumpkin carving station at the office, or even just ask employees to bring in their own creations from home.
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On the hunt for some awesome employee wellbeing ideas? Users can find answers to questions such as:. Using these commands, create a scavenger hunt that helps teammates get acquainted with other members of the organization. The game works best as a race, so set a time limit and award the first player or team who answers all questions correctly. Check out our post on virtual scavenger hunts for a more traditional scavenger hunt experience online. Simply send questions to colleagues, and record top answers.
Ideally, your pooling pool should be larger than your immediate team. In fact, the more neutral parties you collect answers from, the better the game will be. During your game, split the group into two teams, and challenge each team to guess the top answers for each question, and either speak the answer aloud, or write it in the chat box. Teams can confer amongst themselves by entering a private chat room.
Each correct response nets the team an assigned number of points; the more popular the answer, the more points. Here is a list of the best questions for Family Feud. And here are more virtual game shows to try. Microsoft Teams team building games like Pictionary practice effective communication, a critical skill for remote employees. Microsoft Teams has a Wiki feature that allows users to draft and share notes and collaborate with teammates.
While most folks use the Wiki for work projects, you can also use this function to create a fictional country as a team building exercise. Wiki Kingdom Founders is an ongoing game where teammates expand an imaginary world by adding or editing Wiki pages.
To start, create a name for the country, make a basic page, and invite your teammates. Then, encourage team members to add details like maps, laws, history, and customs. Participants propose new changes, and other players vote on which ones to keep. The Praise add-on enables users to send digital kudos to colleagues, making games of compliment tag easy and extra fun. To kick off a game of compliment tag, first set a time-frame, such as a week, and announce the game to the team.
When participants receive a piece of praise, they must reciprocate by sending a genuine compliment to another teammate.
The fun part about playing this game in Microsoft Teams is that you can send Praise to individuals or groups, maximizing the impact. However, all compliments must be sincere. At the end of the game, tally up the total number of Praise badges.
While the folks who send and receive the most compliments get special honors, everybody who participates wins! Snap Camera integrates with Microsoft Teams, meaning you can use filters to make meetings more fun. Typical Snap Camera filters include flower crowns, dog ears, cat hats, floating pizza slices, as well as lenses that transform users into potatoes or tigers. These special effects make excellent online photobooth props. Once each teammate chooses a filter, snap a team photo by taking a screenshot.
If the team guesses correctly, then award a point. You can award extra points for creativity, humor, and good use of GIFs, too! The team with the highest score after all rounds winds the game. First, install the app within your Teams chat.
Then, create a board exclusively for the game, and invite all team members to join. Designate one column for truths and one for dares. If you plan to play truth or dare in real time during a meeting, then pre-fill each column with cards. Players will only read the descriptions after picking the card, and will answer or perform immediately on camera. If you play on an ongoing basis throughout the workweek, then assign players to cards randomly, and take turns giving each other truths and dares.
Participants type answers to questions in the comments section, or link to video or photo evidence of dares. Since this is an office game, all content should be work-friendly! Here are a few PG truths and dares to get you started:.
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