A group of friends. One task. Ten minutes or less. How will you solve the problem?
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Team Challenges Cheerios and an apple. Breakfast food? Or tools for summertime team building?
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Gather the materials listed below and place them on a table. Read the list of construction materials and the team instructions out loud to the team.Construction Materials5 drinking straws10 toothpicks1 ...
Team Challenges Did you know that you can read a Kindle book on an iphone or an ipod touch? If you're traveling with kids this summer, you might want to check out Travel Talk, newly released as a Kindle book -- which you can read on your iphone or ipod touch! Did I mention that it's only a $1?
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Hitting the road (or air) with your kids this summer? Tired of the backseat bickering? If your sanity is worth a buck ($1) and you own a Kindle from Amazon, download Travel Talk: Sanity Saving Games for Long Distance Fun.
Hitting the road (or air) with your kids this summer? Tired of the backseat bickering? If your sanity is worth a buck ($1) and you own a Kindle from Amazon, download Travel Talk: Sanity Saving Games for Long Distance Fun. Don't have a Kindle? No worries...
We go through jars and jars of peanut butter each month at my house. It's always a challenge to get that last bit of butter out of the jar (what's with all those rumply bottoms?). This peanut butter jar immediately caught my eye. So incredibly simple and yet until now, unthought of...
Fast Company names its top 100 Most Creative People in Business.There are no rules about creativity. Which made constructing our list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business a tricky task. We looked for dazzling new thinkers, rising stars, and boldface names who couldn't be ignored...
Are you an educator? In the LEGO Smart Creativity Contest, educators are challenged to use LEGOs to develop a hands-on activity for their students. Your challenge is to create an activity using only the bricks included in a special LEGO Smart Kit...
Awhile back, I had a great message from Cathy Ivins, Emerson Elementary School Student Council and Advisor:I just wanted to thank you for your incredible book Team Challenges. As Student Council Advisor, I am hosting a student leadership conference at my elementary school...
Between my regular work and heading to the Destination Imagination finals last month, and then the resulting flu crud we managed to bring home from DI, time has been scarce...
Now, this is *slightly* off-topic for this blog. Only slightly because this is a (brief) story about a group of writers coming together from all across America (and a few from Canada and New Zealand) to create a new project...
Author Ann Douglas and I recently connected via, of all things, Twitter (I'm @GoldCountry). One of her "tweets" about creativity inspired me to point her to the Destination Imagination program...
This is surely a little self-serving, but let me point you to a review of Team Challenges I just found (courtesy of Google Alerts). Those of you who wonder if Team Challenges will be useful with your church youth group might want to check it out.Thanks, Stephen!
I'm expecting my Destination Imagination team to arrive within a couple of hours and need to pull together a last minute challenge for them to practice their creativity and teamwork skills...
Zaxmom! Contact me at teamchallenges @ yahoo.com, and I'll send your copy of Team Challenges out.
Hey! Yoo hoo! Sacramento Googler who was looking for adult team building ideas. I'm less than an hour away from Sac! May I help you?? Because Team Challenges are great for adults, too.
But just in the nick of time...It's Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!Head on over to Fast Pack to play online bubble wrap games, and while you're there, check out that color selection! And who knew there was a Bubble Wrap book?? (Alas, it's out of print).
I missed blog de-lurking day, which apparently happened last week. A lot of folks roll through this site but only a few of you stop to comment. Just for fun, let's see who's out there. In comments, tell me who you are (are you a teacher...
Here's one of those so simple and yet so clever ideas that make you wonder why it hasn't been thought of sooner. Take one prescription medication bottle, add a rock, and viola! A secret key hider! Simply bury the bottle in the ground.Blog Nod: Craft
Holiday classrooms are often adorned with paper chains, handcrafted by students. Just in time for the holiday, I offer you a twist on the traditional paper chain, in the form of a challenge...
I think we can all agree on the wastefulness of our society. So much of our trash is...trashed, filling already overflowing landfills. Today I ran across two different examples of repurposing items that would normally go to waste. I like to share these kinds of images as inspiration...
The ever creative Seth Godin is offering up a unique opportunity. A guided quest, says he. Instead of an MBA, spend six months in New York working with Seth and a few other amazing people, learning by doing. A few notes from the site:You get no credit for a clever application...
Bill Dan is a San Francisco based artist who works with rocks. Not rocks that are chiseled to form a sculpture like you might imagine, but simply rocks...
Blogger has added a new feature that allows blog readers to "follow" favorite blogs. I'm not exactly sure how it will work, but just to see, I've added it to my sidebar. I invite you to follow me!
I just got word from my publisher that Team Challenges has gone into its THIRD printing. For the moment, there's a lag time for anyone trying to order the book from Amazon, Powell's, or Barnes and Noble...
Tomorrow's election in the USA is historic. Historic. Regardless of how you plan to vote, I implore you to get out and do so. It’s our duty to participate in this democracy. I mean really? Can you imagine NOT voting in this election and having to explain that to your grandchildren someday...
Seth Godin, leadership guru, has a new book out, titled Tribes. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it sounds compelling. And it sounds quite like his 'tribe' could also be considered a 'team'. Full details are on his Squidoo page...
I am continually fascinated by the clever reuse of basic household items. I've always used egg cartons as project materials for my kids, and admittedly I have a yen to make a giant-sized model of a waffle iron with my stack of cartons, but have yet to tackle that project...
My kids have become cardboard box experts. They know a good box when they see one and have on more than one occasion implored me to turn around to pick up a good box or (in truly lucky situations) large sheet of cardboard. They've made some amazing things with cardboard...
There are two books that I find myself continually recommending for young families. They are picture books that I consider to be some of the best...
What to do with those old vinyl records cluttering up the closet? Make waves!Jean Shin created 'Sound Wave' (clever, eh?) by melting and sculpting records together.Blog Nod: Make
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