Boat Building

Primary Benefit: Teambuilding

Secondary Benefits:

• Listening to everyone’s ideas
• Role definition
• Leadership
• Big-picture thinking
• Resource utilization
• Communication skills

The Game: It’s sink or swim time – will your team come out high and dry, or end up all wet?

Participants divide into small project teams. Each is charged with the challenge of buildingTeamBonding Activity a raft from a limited supply of resources (barrels, boards, and rope.) Your vessel must be capable of transporting several team members and your team flag. Navigate through an obstacle course to a dock or buoy on a lake, then (hopefully) all the way back to shore. All members of your crew must coordinate efforts to brainstorm, create and build the raft.
Here’s your chance to be Huckleberry Finn, except that in our version everyone wears a lifejacket!

Raft Building/Treasure Hunt Variation: Teams engage in an orienteering exercise to find the materials to build their raft. Once at the dock or buoy, each group retrieves a treasure which is actually a puzzle piece to a problem that can only be solved when competing teams combine each of their puzzle pieces.

Team-Work ProgramProgram Length: Hopefully, somewhat less than a three-hour tour.

Space Requirements: A body of water.