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Fun Team Activities for Lockdown
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Quick Ideas
| Fun Team Activities

 Virtual Coffee Breaks                     Virtual Lunch Wednesdays
 Have a random chat over a coffee!         Evaluate who is having the most delicious lunch!

 Stretching & Yoga Sessions                Fancy Dress Fridays
 > Access free sessions here!              Dress up for video calls, prize for best costume!

 Crazy Hat Tuesdays                        Formal Fridays
 Make that Zoom call more interesting!     Black tie and cocktail frocks for the day!

 Colour Theme Days                         Pet Show & Tell
 Need an excuse to mix up your wardrobe?   Show off the furry friends keeping us all sane!

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Create a Story
| Fun Team Activities

Getting Started
The only thing that you need to do here is to
share some random words that will be
common for everyone.

Get Creative
And then, ask each person to create a short
story using those random words and read
them out to the team. Bound to cause a few
laughs.

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Charades                                             The Rules
| Fun Team Activities                                o No words
                                                     o No pointing at objects in a
                                                       room
Getting Started
                                                     o No lip movements
That classic Christmas family favourite can still
                                                     o Only "acting out" words or
be played virtually - as long as you concentrate
                                                       pantomiming similar
carefully.
                                                       sounding words
To play, you just have to take it in turns to come
up with a film, book, play or even person, then
act it out to the other players.
All you will need is a timer and some paper and
pens to keep track of the score.

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Pictionary
| Fun Team Activities
                                              Remember
                                              No words, numbers,
                                              gestures, and/or verbal/non-
                                              verbal cues may be used.
Getting Started
                                              The point of Pictionary is to
Lots of fun and pretty simple — you get on    draw pictures and guess
a call, start a game and then everyone gets   what the word or phrase is!
a turn at drawing a word while everyone
else is trying to guess it.

Try using a ‘Pictionary Word Generator’ to
provide the words.

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Quizzes
| Fun Team Activities
                                                          Quiz Topics
                                                          o General Knowledge
Getting Started                                           o Music & Films
Can be held weekly or less often, ranging from work-      o History
related to general knowledge ones; sometimes the          o Geography
quiz could be themed. You can have a ‘quiz master’ or
ask people to volunteer to host it.                       o Sports
The set-up is quite simple — and you could use Poll       o Famous Faces
Everywhere, which does the leader board for you,
based both on correctness and the speed of answers.
You can also get participants to share a Truth or a Lie
to the quiz master and they will table these as part of
the quiz.
Couple of general question links – Here and here.

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Online Happy Hour
| Fun Team Activities                             Top Tip
                                                  o People feel more at ease if
                                                    the focus isn’t solely on
                                                    talking.
Getting Started
                                                  o Why not watch a TV show
Having an occasional call just to chat, maybe       together or play an online
grab a drink and not talk about work is useful.     game where the
It helps include everyone, which is key if you      conversation will be more
have shy colleagues who can feel completely         casual and natural.
left out in this working from home                o You could all agree upon a
environment.                                        dish everyone might try and
                                                    cook together.
You could discuss movies, gardening, meal-
prepping —basically anything people are
interested in. Zoom can be used, with no set
length of time for people to drop in and out.

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Daily Challenge                                  Fitness Challenges
| Fun Team Activities
                                                 Beginner
                                                 • Regularly take more than
                                                   10,000 steps a day
Getting Started                                  • Perform 12 bodyweight squats
                                                   without stopping
Nominate someone to set a challenge for the
day, could be related to health and wellbeing,   Advanced
food, crafts – anything!                         • Run a mile (1.6km) in less than
The colleagues post their evidence and the         nine minutes
person setting the challenge declares a winner   • Hold a classic plank for 45
                                                   seconds
who sets the next challenge and so on. Could
                                                 • Deadlift more than 50% of your
use a Whatsapp or Teams group.                     bodyweight

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Bingo                                      Bingo Calls
| Fun Team Activities
                                           1.    Kelly’s Eye
                                           2.    One Little Duck
Getting Started                            3.    Cup of Tea
Online bingo can be played, you can get    4.    Knock at the Door
bingo cards from Amazon or take the time   5.    Man Alive
to make your own and send these over in    6.    Tom Mix
advance.                                   7.    Lucky Seven
The numbers can be generated using:        8.    Garden Gate
https://appzaza.com/bingo-number-          9.    Doctor’s Orders
generator                                  10.   Cameron’s Den
                                           11.   Legs 11

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