Teamwork Game: Trolleys with Duct Tape
April 12, 2007
Duct Tape is one of my favorite all purpose tools. You can fix nearly anything with it AND you can lead lots of fun teambuilding games with it!
Here's a teambuilding game called "Trolleys" that is normally done using two long wooden boards. The team stands on the boards and then each team member holds onto a rope attached to the board. Wooden Trolley's are fun to use but they are inconvenient to transport due to size and weight.
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Hi Tom!
I love this idea with the duct tape! I have used the long wooden boards to conduct this Trolley exercise and have been trying to think of alternative! THANK YOU! I love your tips!
Posted by: Karen Harvey | September 06, 2007 at 11:24 AM
Hi Tom!
I can not download the instructions for the duct tape activity!!
Help!!!
Posted by: Karen | October 08, 2007 at 10:03 AM
This is a great and highly portable twist on a classic team building activity. A facilitators toolbox should always have some duct tape, and now a that Tom Heck has shown this variation. I can leave the large 10 foot 2 x 4 in my garage!
Thanks Tom
Posted by: Michael Cardus | October 31, 2007 at 09:47 AM
Hi Tom!
Since I´ve been call "the masking tape trainer"... I was wondering how to travel with "the boards" through US customs!! So, Thanks sooo much for the tip... Now I´ll print a t-shirt with my nick name!!
In-joy!!
Celina.
Posted by: Celina | November 23, 2007 at 08:42 AM
I LOVE this idea! It is wonderful and Duct Tape is sooooooo much easier to transport than wood!
THANK YOU!
Posted by: Elizabeth | January 02, 2008 at 01:48 PM
I'd love to learn how to do this activity, but I am not able to open the link. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Karen Handley | April 28, 2008 at 04:22 PM
Hi Karen -- Tom Heck answering your question about "opening a link". There are no written instructions yet for this game. Make sure you sign up for my free teambuilding ideas e-newsletter (look in the right hand column of this site for the form). All newsletter subscribers will receive free instructions to this activity. Tom
Posted by: Tom Heck | April 28, 2008 at 04:33 PM
I am subscribed to your newsletter, have the latest version of Adobe and could not download the free team building exercises. What to do?
Posted by: Karen Marlett | May 13, 2008 at 07:11 AM
Answering Karen's question above - - I've yet to upload a set of lead-it-yourself instructions for this game so there is nothing to download for this particular activity. If you have questions beyond this feel free to email me. Tom Heck
Posted by: Tom | May 23, 2008 at 08:58 PM
Hello Tom
Just saw the duct tape trolley idea...Fabulous. Next week I'll be hosting a Youth Leader Training Weekend with 9 of our 2nd year Scouts after a year of leadership training. I'll be using this one. Thanks!
Posted by: Gary Malicki | June 04, 2008 at 07:49 PM
Dear Tom,
This was indeed a great idea and gives us greater scope to conduct the trolley activity at locales other than ours without having to cart the wooden boards
Zenobia.
Posted by: Zenobia rustomfram | June 08, 2008 at 06:37 AM
Thanks, it is nice idea.
Regards
Posted by: Paresh Srivastav | June 18, 2008 at 07:55 AM
Dear Tom,
I love the versatility of the activity. Thank you very much for sharing it with us!
Best regards,
Paula
Posted by: Paula Marcondes | June 27, 2008 at 12:01 AM
This is such a great website - i always feel energised and creative after visiting. Thank you
Posted by: Sarah hunter | August 08, 2008 at 05:24 AM
Wow, what a good idea, simple to set up but powerful learning moments.
I am going to use this in my next teambuilding session
Posted by: Bernhard | September 11, 2008 at 05:19 AM
I'm going to try this with our scout group. May also try it blindfold to see if it makes a difference!
Could also try it as a boat war game - each has a pillow and the "boats" come alongside each other and bash the other boat...
Posted by: Brian | September 11, 2008 at 05:34 AM
I have done this before using wooden plank. It's so cumbersome and you can't do it if you have to bring the group overseas. Now, I can do this anywhere. Thanks for the great idea.
Posted by: Heather | September 11, 2008 at 05:45 AM
Tom,
This is a great idea. I think I'll try it for my next teambuilding workshop. I'm having a problem downloading the instructions. HELP!!!!
Posted by: Barbara | September 11, 2008 at 08:49 AM
hi to!
thank you so much for the great ideas.... more power and God bless
Posted by: harold | September 11, 2008 at 08:56 AM
Great alternative to wooden props. Thank you!
Posted by: Sarah W | September 11, 2008 at 11:21 AM
This idea sounds like a great teambuilding excercise, however I can not get the instructions for this activity. Help please!
Hi Angie -- It's Tom Heck, Head Coach at TeachMeTeamwork.com. All subscribers to my free teambuilding ideas e-newsletter will receive the full writeup for this teambuilding game via email for free. Keep an eye out for it. I send new write-ups every week or two. If you don't want to wait, you can get instant access to my entire online library of teambuilding game write-ups when you purchase the TeachMeTeamwork.com 3-CD bundle of teambuilding games at
http://tomheck.blogs.com/teachmeteamwork/2005/03/team_building_g_1.html
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Posted by: Angie | September 11, 2008 at 05:17 PM
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing this teamwork game to me. I'll use it on my young people on tuesday.
Posted by: Jaime Espejon | September 12, 2008 at 06:56 AM
It's great, Tom! Can't wait to try it out on my next project coming up.
Posted by: Mohd Roslan | September 14, 2008 at 03:11 AM
Creative!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Posted by: Karen | September 23, 2008 at 10:42 AM
Great Idea! If that was not said enough. I really treasure these ideas from you as I am in Cohesion Building Programme and yes, props are the number 1 enemy to making an event successful. Your ideas are really inspiring. I'd love to share some ideas of my own to you. I'm glad i was introduced to this by a friend. You're brilliant, Tom.
Posted by: Azhar | November 01, 2008 at 11:03 AM
Great idea - however, we tried this, but with larger teams (>3 people) the tape kept tearing. So if you try this, bring a lot of extra tape.
Tom Heck responding - - It's important to buy high quality, strong, thick (expensive) duct tape for this game. Using cheap, thin, easy to tear duct tape results in lots of broken duct tape (no fun).
Posted by: Beth | February 18, 2009 at 12:37 PM