Team building exercises are always a great idea in the business world. Your employees will work better together if they trust in and enjoy being around each other. Luckily, there are many options when it comes to making your team stronger. Not all of them include tackling big challenges as a group or playing silly games. Here are some of our most favorite executive team building arts and craft ideas.

Why Choose Arts and Crafts?

In most cases, it is always good to have employees think outside of the box. By allowing them to take on crafting projects as a team, they will begin to feel as though they can express creative thoughts and concepts openly.

Generally, team building exercises include things that would encourage the team to work together. Scavenger hunts where two people must think together to find what they are looking for. Other options include having them decide how to solve a particular problem. Building a shelter that withstands high winds using popsicle sticks or toothpicks or a basket that can hold a raw egg as it drops without breaking the egg.

These are great ideas. They do encourage your team to work together to solve a problem. The teams will have to think creatively, but you can encourage them to free their mind in other ways as well, through art.

Fun Art for Executives

You can do drawing projects where two members sit back to back. One can describe a picture without telling the other person what it is by using shape clues. The other person will be able to draw it. The winning team is the one that draws the best picture within a set amount of time. If that doesn’t work, pet drawings may be ideal to allow people to brag about their furry friends.

There are also larger scale projects you can tackle. For instance, making a memory wall where everyone writes or draws their favorite memory of events that they have witnessed in the time they have worked there. Maybe have them talk about their first day or a corporate event that they found enjoyable. Team members can create a backboard using plywood and attach the sticky notes to it.

You may even have team members cast their hands to show that they are a team that works together. Make the mold by putting everyone’s hands in a bucket. You can use epoxy casting resin for either project since epoxy resin works on both wood and in molds. You could even encapsulate the sticky notes to your backboard so that you never have to worry about memories falling away.

What Will Your Team Become?

The beauty of team building crafts and projects is that it makes people think together. Any project or idea that you can come up with will make memories that your team can enjoy as a group. You can clean up a park or the beach as a team, build birdhouses as a team, or even have teams put together a large puzzle in a set amount of time. The only important thing is that your team work together based on your company values and expectations.