Category: Team Building - CEF HAWKEYE CHAPTER

3/12/2025

Relay Lock Race

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Goals:

Working together in pairs
Communication
Strategizing
Creative Thinking

Explanation and Setup:

Divide the group into two teams and have each person select a partner.
Partners stand back-to-back and lock arms by the elbows while holding their own stomach with their hands.
The coach gives the instruction to get from one location to another.

3/12/2025

Jacob's Ladder

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Goals:

Teamwork
Communication

Explanation and Setup:

Divide the group into two equal lines, facing each other.
Have each participant lock arms with the person directly across from them by grabbing their elbows and forming a ladder.
Toss a beach ball or balloon onto the ladder and have the group work as a team to get it all the way up the ladder in one direction and back again.

3/12/2025

Balloon Help

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Goals:

Teamwork
Communication
Creative problem solving

Explanation and Setup:

Start everyone off in a circle, facing inward, hands behind back.
Put between zero and three balloons in each person's hands behind their backs.
Participants should not let on to others how many balloons their have.
The leader starts by trying to keep three balloons afloat in the center.

3/12/2025

Blind Lame Talker

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Goal:

Discovering the benefits of teamwork
Discussing spiritual gifts
Viewing handicaps in a new light
Discussing strengths and weaknesses

Explanation and Setup:

Minimum of 3 participants per team
Each person will be assigned an ability (sight, speech or locomotion) and made disabled in the other two abilities. For example, if you were assigned sight you would then have your feet bound together and your mouth taped shut to represent being paralyzed from the waist down and being unable to create any sound with the vocal cords

Contact Information

Mailing Address
CEF of Iowa, Inc.
Hawkeye Chapter
P.O. Box 10493
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52410

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5925 Council St NE
Suite 170 & 180
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
(SW corner at rear of building)