Playground Games Promote Teamwork

Teamwork is important for children. Children's team building activities allow children to learn communication skills while playing. Children can develop these skills when participating in playground games. Here are 10 playground games that can cultivate teamwork for you. I hope it will be helpful for your children.

1.Fingertip Hula Hoop

This playground game is played by four to six children in a circle, and the children use their fingertips to spin hula hoops at the same time. The challenge is to keep everyone's hula hoops spinning without falling to the ground within the specified time. The game is very interesting and challenging.
In multiplayer games, such as relay races and synchronized spinning challenges, players need to cooperate and collaborate with each other to complete the task together. This helps to cultivate teamwork and team awareness.

2.Unpretzel 

This playground game is to divide children into several groups, with 8-12 people in each group. Let the children hold hands and form a tight circle. While holding hands, tie a knot. The children need to try to untie the "human knot" by moving their bodies, turning around, and crossing without letting go, and finally return to the original state of holding hands and forming a circle.
In the game, children must cooperate with each other, communicate with each other, and work together to find ways to untie the knot, which helps to cultivate the cooperation awareness and team spirit of team members.

3.Hopscotch Relay 

This Hopscotch Relay playground game is to divide the children into several groups, with the number of people in each group as equal as possible and the size of each grid should be large enough for a child to stand on one foot. The first child in each group starts from the first grid of hopscotch, jumps forward on one foot, and jumps over each grid in turn. When the child jumps to the last grid, he quickly runs back to the starting point and high-fives the next child. The next child repeats the above actions and continues the relay. As a relay game, the performance of each child is related to the group's performance. Children need to encourage and cooperate with each other and work together for the victory of the group, which helps to cultivate teamwork spirit and collective sense of honor.

4.Over Under Relay 

Over Under Relay Divide the children into several groups, with an even number of people in each group, usually around 5-10 people. Each group stands in a column, with a certain distance between adjacent people. Pass the props in the order of "up-down-up-down". The props are passed in the group in turn. When the last person receives the prop, he quickly runs to the front of the team and becomes the new leader, and then repeats the above process. The group that completes the specified number of rounds (such as 3-5 rounds) first wins. The performance of each member in this playground game directly affects the overall speed of the group. Close cooperation and mutual collaboration are required to efficiently complete the task of relaying, which helps to cultivate tacit understanding and cooperation among team members.

5.Group Jump Rope

This team game is to choose a skipping rope of appropriate length. Generally speaking, the length of the skipping rope is suitable for two people holding both ends of the rope, the middle of the rope can touch the ground, and the highest point of the rope is about 1.5 meters to 2 meters from the ground when it is shaken. ollective skipping rope requires everyone to cooperate and collaborate with each other to proceed smoothly. In this process, the relationship between the participants will be closer and the team cohesion will be enhanced. During the skipping rope process, participants need to communicate continuously, such as prompting the timing of entry, adjusting the rhythm, etc., which helps to promote communication and exchanges among children's teams and cultivate teamwork skills.

6.Agility Course

Agility Course is a playground game that is usually played outdoors or in a large indoor space. It has various obstacles such as hurdles, hoops, and balance beams, which are combined according to age and ability. Use actions such as leaping and climbing to pass the obstacles to the finish line. You can challenge and record the time alone, or you can compare the total time in groups. It comprehensively improves sports abilities such as strength, speed, and agility; exercises cardiopulmonary function, enhances endurance and metabolic levels; improves proprioception and balance ability, and prevents sports injuries. When competing in groups, children encourage each other, develop strategies, and promote teamwork skills; there is a lot of communication and interaction during the process, which enhances interpersonal communication.

7.Team Simon Says 

Team Simon Says Choose one child as the "leader" and the rest of the children form teams. The leader needs to stand in front of the team members to make sure that the children can see and hear him/her clearly.The leader will issue various instructions, such as "Simon says touch your nose" and "Simon says jump three times". Team members only need to follow the instructions and make corresponding actions when they hear the instructions starting with "Simon says". If the leader issues an instruction without "Simon says", the members cannot make the action. In the game, team members need to observe and remind each other. When a member makes a mistake, other members may give prompts through eye contact, expressions, etc., which helps to enhance teamwork ability.

8.Birthday Line Up 

Birthday Line Up Children participating in the game stand in a row or a circle. Tell everyone that the goal of the game is to stand in a row in the order of everyone's birthday. The order of birthdays here only considers the month and day, not the year. Everyone cannot speak and communicate, and can only understand each other's birthday information through non-verbal methods such as observation and gestures, and then move their positions by themselves to give the children a certain amount of time to complete the arrangement. During the Birthday Line Up game, members need to observe, understand and cooperate with each other, which helps to break the strangeness and barriers between members, promote the faster integration of team members, enhance the overall atmosphere of the team, exercise the team's collaboration and communication skills, and improve the team's collaboration level.

9.Marco Polo

This playground game is for children to gather in a swimming pool or other larger body of water. One member is selected as the "seeker" and the rest are "avoiders". The "seeker" usually closes his eyes or wears a blindfold and stands in the middle or one end of the pool, while the other "avoiders" are scattered in various corners or areas of the pool. In the Marco Polo game, the "avoiders" may cooperate with each other and remind each other to avoid the "seeker", which to a certain extent cultivates the children's teamwork spirit and collaboration ability, and allows children to learn how to face challenges together in a team.

10.Body Spellers

Body Spellers is usually a fun team or individual game that focuses on spelling words through body movements. You can determine a theme based on interest and then prepare a series of words that need to be spelled around the theme. Body Spellers can divide children into several groups or conduct individual competitions. If it is a group competition, each group elects a representative as the "speller", and if it is an individual competition, each participant takes turns. Team members need to cooperate with each other, trust each other, and complete the task together. This is conducive to cultivating teamwork and a relationship of mutual trust.

Above, I have listed 10 games that can promote children's team communication skills and cooperation. I also hope that these games can help you. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. We are always at your service.