With very large groups, it gets harder to involve everyone in the conversation, so you need group activities that can be scaled up to a hundred or more people and still produce results effectively. This is where we come in! Whether you are running a session at a conference, facilitating a large group workshop, or organizing a company retreat or a strategic workshop, you will find useful inspiration, workshop ideas, and group activities among the facilitation techniques below.
We have collected some easy-to-apply large group games and group activities for you from the SessionLab library of facilitation techniques that work well for group size above 30 people. Do you need some large group games to get people moving and raise the energy level in the room?
Or an activity that helps to break the ice and get participants comfortable talking to each other. Consider these exercises and group activities for kicking off your next training workshop or large group team building session.
People play against each other in pairs until the first win. But instead of the losing players becoming eliminated from the tournament, they become a fan of the winner, and they cheer for them as the winner plays against a new opponent. You repeat the process until there are only two players left with a huge fan base cheering for them.
The last two players have to play until one has won twice. Looking for fun group activities? Look no further! Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament energiser warm up remote-friendly. This goes on until a final showdown with two large cheering crowds! Doodling Together is a fun and creative icebreaker where the group gets to collaboratively draw postcards through a series of instructions as participants complete the postcards started by others.
You can simply use this technique in parallel groups as the instructions are easy to follow. It is a great group activity to establish creative confidence, collaborate effortlessly and build capacity for working together as a workshop-group. Large group games rarely have the potential to be more hilarious. Doodling Together collaboration creativity teamwork fun team visual methods energiser ice breaker remote-friendly.
Bang is a group game, played in a circle, where participants must react quickly or face elimination. A good activity to generate laughter in a group. It can also help with name-learning for groups getting to know each other. For events with more than 30 people, it is best to play it in parallel groups. Bang hyperisland energiser. In this group activity, every participant creates three thoughtful questions that they want to ask from other group members to get to know them better.
People start to mingle to ask and answer questions in pairs. After asking a question and listening to the answer, they hand over that question. Thus, in each one-on-one meeting, participants will swap one question each. This allows people to learn interesting facts about each other and works with a group size of up to people. An activity to support a group to get to know each other through a set of questions that they create themselves. The activity gets participants moving around and meeting each other one-on-one.
Facilitation techniques and activities to build effective teams and support teamwork. These large group games put an emphasis on fostering trust and openness for better collaboration and manage team dynamics effectively. Getting your large group team building activities right can be the difference between helping your team bond or leaving them frustrated. These group activities will help you to initiate meaningful conversation in the group, provide a starting a point for focusing on teamwork and collaboration, and importantly give engaging tasks to participants in which they work together.
This is essential to increase cohesion within teams. The key for successfully achieving these goals in large groups is to have big group games that can be easily run in smaller groups in parallel.
This group activity helps group members to get to know each other better through a creative drawing exercise: Each participant draws their own coat of arms — a design that is unique to themselves, representing important characteristics, achievements and values of its owner. If you want to direct the focus of this group activity to certain areas, then you can instruct people to which question to answer in each segment of the Coat of Arms.
What is something you are very good at? When people are finished drawing, they present their work to in their group. The presentation part is practical to do in smaller groups. And whether you have a small or large group, you can arrange a neat Coat of Arms gallery by sticking all the drawings on the wall of the workshop room. Large group games where participants have something to show at the end can be especially effective and can really set the stage for a productive, interactive workshop.
Coat of Arms teambuilding opening ice breaker team get-to-know thiagi. In eighteen minutes, teams of people must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow.
The marshmallow needs to be on top. Since the instructions are fairly simple, it is easy to scale this activity up to groups playing in parallel and competing who builds the highest structure. It emphasizes collaboration, group communication, leadership dynamics and problem-solving strategy — everything you want in your large group games. Also, there are marshmallows.
All group activities are better with marshmallows! Marshmallow challenge with debriefing teamwork team leadership collaboration. In eighteen minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The Marshmallow Challenge was developed by Tom Wujec, who has done the activity with hundreds of groups around the world.
Visit the Marshmallow Challenge website for more information. This version has an extra debriefing question added with sample questions focusing on roles within the team.
The Helium stick group activity gives a simple challenge to teams that require teamwork and coordination to manage. People are lined up in two rows facing each other, 5 to 10 people per row, depending on the length of the sticks you have for the game. Participants point with their index finger and hold their arms out in a way that a stick can be horizontally laid on their index fingers.
Why Helium Stick? You can easily scale this activity for larger groups, just have as many sticks as the number of lines you will create, and the sub-groups will compete against each other who manages to lower their stick first. Helium Stick teampedia team teamwork ice breaker energiser.
A great and simple activity for fostering teamwork and problem solving with no setup beforehand. Large group games are undeniably effective at getting things rolling, and fun group activities are essential for getting a team engaged, but what if you need to go deeper?
There are dedicated facilitation methods that work really effectively if you need certain conversations to happen in large groups. The techniques below can be used as core group activities for planning and facilitating large group workshops. They tend to have only a few guiding principles and rules, which allows smaller groups to organize and manage themselves during a workshop.
Open Space Technology — developed by Harrison Owen — is a method perfectly suited for organizing and running large scale meetings, often multi-day events, where participants self-organize themselves to find solutions for a complex issue.
Have a few topics in mind, and complement each topic with a few simple questions like these. FluentU takes authentic videos—like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks—and turns them into personalized language learning lessons. You can try FluentU for free for 2 weeks.
Click here to check out the website or download the iOS app or Android app. All you need is a small ball. You can start the game out by having a student toss you the ball and ask you a relevant question. You want to encourage quick questions and answers from your students to give this a real-life scenario feel.
For a few laughs, toss around a potato. Your students will practice communication, learn about asking and answering questions, gain more confidence to speak, polish their grammar when speaking and develop those crucial listening skills as well. As the name implies, this fun ESL game is art-inspired, with a dash of quick, imaginative exploration.
This fun ESL game certainly offers a much-needed break from tough topics and traditional book learning. After all, most people develop a picture in their mind while speaking or explaining something. Why not have your students put it on paper artistically? The materials needed for this fun ESL game will be: plenty of paper for your students to draw and color, crayons, markers and colored pencils.
You can have them break out this journal once a week for the sole purpose of this activity. You have a few options on how you can convey the topics and scenarios for your students to begin creating art on paper. You can simply say the sentence, you can write the sentence on the board without speech or you can do both at the same time. Give your students enough time to draw the scenario before moving on to the next. You may find approaching one or two scenarios per session best practice.
We have a list of topics here for you to choose from, and of course you can think of your own. There are two ways to approach this, you can introduce the task by asking them to work individually first, or move straight onto the game below. These type of activities used to be in puzzle magazines all the time. There sis a fair deal of explaining required to them but basically it s a logical fill in the blanks.
It is better suited to higher level students, but its a great English Speaking game when adapted properly. We have a separate page for the full details, and it is in this speaking exercise book free download but will highlight the basics here to see if it is something that fits your teaching needs.
The aim is to fill in the table with all the information so you know everything about the residents of Downing street. However you have to walk around and ask the rest of the class for that information, only once you have spoken to everyone will you be able to work it out. This is a great English speaking game that gets the whole class taking to each other, and forgetting about the language they are doing that in!
You will need the table worksheet for students to fill in and the list of information and clues both on the links includes here. Once your students have the answers then it can be gone through together on the board or white board and it adds another speaking element to the lesson.
This is a great speaking game for ESL students and other. It really encourages them to speak to each other. As an added bonus for teachers we get to act as facilitator rather than be stuck at the front of the classroom. Adaptations: It is possible to add clues carefully to make sure they fit the answers doing this makes it much easier.
The aim is to get the students speaking to each other not just the logic side of the activity. Ask and respond activities give students the comfort of a script to follow, which means those who are a little self conscious have some scaffolding to work from.
It also means these activities are suitable for lower level students who need that extra help. We have one designed for younger learners here. It is possible to actually have the directions already prewritten for students. This means they can practice reading, speaking and listening in one activity. Also it is possible to have your class spend a lesson coming up with the directions themselves and then putting them all in a box or bag at the front for the whole class to use. This means you add writing and they are actually using their own work to prepare a lesson.
One of the main problems when teacher oral English speaking lessons is that the class invariably turns into robots. This is not intentional, so much effort goes into speaking in another language that putting emotion and expression into what they are saying comes way , WAY down the list.
So sometimes a little nudge in the right direction is all they need. We have designed an ESL speaking game and lesson to do just that. Adding expression to their speech is a large step towards sounding natural and developing English fluency. In English to sound more natural we have a set of almost automatic set of responses on hearing good, bad or surprising news.
As a game you can then repeat the same sort or exercise as the activity above. Have a selection of sentences than usually require a response and then ask for the incorrect response. No one expects you to say congratulations when you tell them your little rabbits died yesterday!!! They can, and have been, played with second language kindergarten students all the way up to native speaking business people with the same amount of fun.
The language from the business people was perhaps a little ruder than the kindergarten children but only a little! It is a superb English speaking game for ESL students and native speakers.
In it they had a rather colorful character called Timmy Mallet who, among other things, played a game called mallets mallet. In this game the players, always children, had to think of a word associated with whatever Timmy said. There was no hesitation, repetition, or ummm or errrrrs allowed or they got a bonk on the head. This is easier to show you than explain so here is a video of it! They have to say a word related to the previous word in 3 seconds or less.
They can not repeat, pause or say something unrelated. For fun they can play against the teacher as well. They can do this by picking and reading a wish out of the bag and then trying to guess who it belongs to. They hav to give a reason why they think that. Note: I have done this, or a version of this, many times without issue. However there was one time when a student wrote that they wished their parents would get back together which was pretty heartbreaking.
Although it is superb to share, in front of a class of other students may not be the time or place. I did of course talk to her after and sought some help from others in the school. It may be worth while including instructions to keep it light.
Adaptations: This is also great as an Icebreaker activity for students and teacher to get to know each other. You can keep the activity as wishes or ask them to write three things about themselves.
You can even change it to two things true and one lie to add some fun and creativity.
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