8 Great Winter Team Building Ideas

Winter is just around the corner. The evenings are getting darker, there’s a definite chill in the air, and it won’t be long before we’re munching mince pies and dancing like no one’s watching at the office Christmas party. After a busy year, it’s no surprise that employees might have run out of steam by November. There’s still a lot of work to get through before the year wraps up and arriving at and leaving the office in the dark and cold doesn’t help motivation.

Isaac Kenyon, Team-Building Expert Keynote Speaker says, “Winter offers a unique canvas for team building, setting it apart from the sun-soaked days of summer. While the warm months beckon with outdoor adventures, the winter season unveils a distinctive opportunity to forge stronger bonds within teams.

In the midst of colder, darker days, especially pronounced in regions like the UK, where the NHS estimates that 1 in 15 Britons grapples with ‘January Blues’ or Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) stemming from limited exposure to sunlight and the gloomier winter climate.

During these months, employees may experience a sense of unease, fatigue, anxiety, or even depression as daylight dwindles and temperatures plummet. While we can’t control the weather, we have the power to shape our office environments and grow a team unity conducive to staff well-being and productivity. It’s precisely in these moments that prioritising team-building and morale-boosting activities becomes paramount. The winter season invites us to explore a wealth of indoor team-building exercises, improving productivity and elevating employee spirits during the darker months.”

Avoid that pre or post-festive slump and inject some energy with a winter team building activity that will boost staff morale and promote positive mental health. Whether you are energising tired employees in November or kicking-off the new year with some motivational indoor team building activities in January, here’s our favourite ideas for winter team building. You can select an activity type based on your desired outcome – Eventurous have over 60 engaging team building activities to choose from.

1) Diamond Heist

Perfect for: The Rule Breakers!
Group size: 20 – 1000+
Type of team building: problem-solving-based technique
Best for: Working together to achieve a common goal

Team solving riddle Diamond Heist brings the thrill and intrigue of an escape room team building experience directly to your venue.

Perfect for large group sizes, Diamond Heist brings the thrill and intrigue of an escape room team building experience directly to your venue. This tabletop activity sees teams cracking codes, solving puzzles, and uncovering clever clues, as they try to recover the legendary Maltese Diamond. This fully mobile experience is a great way to engage teams, with thought-provoking activities suitable for all abilities and personalities. Great for when space is limited, Diamond Heist can be easily delivered in offices, meeting rooms and conference venues.

2) The Lost Pages

Perfect for: The Curious
Group size: 5 – 1000+
Type of team building: problem-solving technique
Best for: encouraging teams to work towards a common goal


The Lost pages is a sure-fire way to develop teamwork and problem solving skills.

This high-intensity indoor activity is an exciting option for winter team building. With participants split into teams, individuals compete to solve riddles and mysteries from the lost pages of an explorers journal, taking them on a pursuit around hidden chambers and lost cities. This unique indoor team building activity, is sustainable with 100% re-useable boards and iPads charged by solar power at our head office! So if you are looking for something that gets the cogs turning at no cost to the earth, this is a great and sustainable indoor team building option. 

3) Indoor Soapbox Derby

Perfect for: The Speed Deamons
Group size: 25 – 1000+
Type of team building: activity-based technique
Best for: developing cross-functional teams

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The Indoor Soapbox Derby encourages creativity and gets participants working collaboratively.

You’ll want to recruit the very best, elite pit team for this indoor Soap Box Derby challenge. Race against the clock, and your colleagues, to assemble the ultimate cardboard driving machine and claim pole position. Get creative as your team builds their cart from a set of construction plans, adding personal touches along the way to design a unique racing vehicle. Tailored to work with indoor venues, the Indoor Soapbox Derby encourages creativity and gets participants working collaboratively.

4) Indoor Crystal Challenge

Perfect for: The 90s Babies
Group size: 20 – 300
Type of team building: activity-based technique
Best for: developing cross-functional teams


The Crystal Maze is the perfect blend of fun and skill development.

Live out your 90’s dreams of taking on the infamous Crystal Maze! Put your mind and body to the test, with a variety of fun challenges that will have everyone joining in. Move your way through different puzzles and games, collecting crystals as you go, all with the final goal in mind – The Crystal Dome! The perfect blend of fun and skill development, this indoor team building activity will be a definite hit with employees of all ages.

5) Minute to Win It

Perfect for: The Quick Thinkers
Group size: 40 – 150
Type of team building: activity-based technique
Best for: developing cross-functional teams


Minute to Win It is the ideal blend of audience participation, bags of energy and a dash of healthy competition.

Go up against the clock in this fun, action-packed game show. After being split into teams, select participants are bought on stage to partake in a variety of challenges. What may initially seem like an easy task, quickly becomes more difficult when faced with the 60 second time limit! Games such as Stack Attack, Mad Hatters and Beat the Buzzer will see everyone laughing, with high audience participation, bags of energy and a dash of healthy competition. Suitable for both small and large group sizes, Minute to Win It works well as an afternoon team build or as an interactive evening entertainment option.

6) Scaling the Heights

Perfect for: The Business Minded
Group size: 40 – 150
Type of team building: skills-based technique
Best for: developing specific skills

Scaling the heights 2 females building a tower with blue yellow red bricks
Scaling the Heights works well at most venues and for most group sizes.

The key to this puzzle-based team challenge is strategy. Teams must work well together if they are to solve the cryptic brainteasers that unlock vital information on a designated electronic system. Communication is essential, as teams collect points and scale the heights to victory. A great team building activity to get everyone participating, Scaling the Heights works well at most venues and for most group sizes. Develop your teams’ day-to-day skills, such as co-operation and time management, whilst cracking codes and negotiating for the correct blocks needed to construct the team tower.

7) Bridge the Divide

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A creative activity that fosters better communication skills, Bridge the Divide is the ideal activity to run alongside a meeting or conference.

Put your construction skills to the test as you build bridges – both literally and metaphorically – in this challenging and engaging indoor team building activity. Faced with timelines, limited resources and unexpected barriers, teams must tackle their own sections of the bridge, before coming together to successfully connect the final structure. Great for promoting team bonding, the final structure must be strong enough to safely transport a Sphero Robotic Ball from one side of the bridge to the other. A creative activity that fosters better communication skills, Bridge the Divide is the ideal activity to run alongside a meeting or conference.

8) Fairway to Foodbank

Perfect for: Driving Donations
Group size: 20 – 200
Type of team building: value-based technique
Best for: giving back to charity or the community

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Teams will get the chance to unleash their inner artist as they recreate a 6ft x 4ft mural.

In this new corporately social team build activity, gives your team the opportunity to have fun on the fairway whilst giving back to the community. In teams you are supplied with a kit to build your own 3-meter crazy golf hole, but there is a catch! Your golf hole must be made from non-perishable food stuffs as well as golf hole obstacles. Any food utilised throughout the game must be donated to your local foodbank afterwards. Once you’ve got your hole on par with your opposing teams, prepare for mini golf mayhem you come together to battle it out on the course.!

Let’s Talk!

Ready to start planning your next indoor team building event? Contact us and speak to one of our friendly sales team for advice and recommendations on the best activities for your group size. We can help find a suitable venue and suggest activities that work with your requirements.