Set Up: Make sure everyone knows how to spot and how important it is to spot. Spoons not forks.

Description: Have the group gather around the pole and tell them they have to get the "rings" (tires) off of the sleeping king's finger without waking him up. They cannot touch the pole with the tires or it will wake the giant king up and they'll have to restart. Have them put the tires back onto the pole flipped in order from how they began at the end of the exercise.

Purpose: A challenge that absolutely requires group work and team building.

Debrief: How did that go? What was difficult about that? How did team work help you complete it? Was it hard to trust someone to lift you up?

Set up: Unlock two of the planks, re-lock the last one and put the key somewhere the group will find it. (Inside: Place three platforms in an “L” shape so that one plank can just reach the next platform. Then make sure the third platform is not reachable by only one board, requiring them to overlap..)

Description: The group is to use the planks to get from the first platform to the others with out the boards or the people touching the ground. Each time someone touches the ground implement a “punishment,” ex. No talking or can’t use your right hand. They must unlock the last board in order to get everyone to the end platform.

Purpose: High team work, problem solving, communication.

Debrief: What had to happen to make this work? How did you work as a team? Was everyone important? How?

Set up: Set out one hula hoop for 5 participants in the landing area and behind it.. Set up the rope swing. (Indoors place the platform far enough from the rope to grab it but not too close that it’s  very easy to make the hula hoops.)

Description: The first task is to grab the rope without leaving the platform. Then, everyone in the group must get from the starting area to a hula hoop. No one can touch the ground outside of the starting area, if they do they automatically get sent back to the start. Each person can only touch ONE  hula hoop. If they land with each foot in a different hoop they must restart, if they land in a hoop then fall out they must restart. Group members are able and encouraged to help catch/guide their team mates into a hula hoop. As long as everyone is in a hoop at the end the group succeeds.

Purpose: To show the need for good support with in a group.

Safety point: Be sure everyone is paying good attention and making good decisions.

Debrief: Was this hard? When did it become easier? How can we relate this to life?

Set up: Have each person pick a partner; it is best if they partner with someone they do not know well. Give each partner group a blindfold. Make sure to blindfold the group in the maze and have them sing while you show the path to the group that will be guiding.

Description: Every pair must choose someone to walk through the maze, and the other to guide them. Each pair will need to come up with a set of code words that mean: go, stop, right, left, and back. The words must not mean that in any language or term, (Meaning no north, west, derecho or izquierda.) The partner that is walking through the maze will guide in and then blindfolded. The other person will be outside of the maze to guide the blindfolded person by talking to them in their specific code words. The second time though they switch who is blindfolded and they can only use one word in English as their code for all directions. Good words for this are “Mine,” “One,” or “Walk.” No one can hold on to someone else to walk the maze and no one can hold on to the rope. On the second time through try to mislead people by saying things like, “Don’t listen to her. They do not know what they are talking about. (lift the rope) Come this way, follow the sound of my voice. Go to your right.”

Purpose: Works on communication. Who to listen to.

Safety point: Blindfolded people need to keep their hands up so that they do not hit a tree.

Debrief: Why was this hard? Why were some of you lead astray? Relate this to real life. Since God is the one we should listen to how do we know his voice?