Whether you’re looking to energise your team before a corporate away day, or provide a meaningful ice breaker for new employee intake.
Here are 3 tried and tested ideas for great ice breaker activities using LEGO bricks. You can run these yourself, or contact us about our ice breaker activities for corporate events.
A good ice breaker should provide an engaging activity to help team members who are not familiar with each other to bond, and LEGO bricks are an ideal medium for this. Our list of team building ideas with LEGO bricks may provide more ideas for you.
Self portrait ice breakers
Here’s a classic ice breaker activity – ask your team to build a portrait of themselves from LEGO bricks; 15 – 20 minutes is generally enough time for everyone to take part. Once finished, there’s a great opportunity for a unique team photograph!
Build an item from LEGO bricks that tells us something about you
This is a more open-ended ice breaker activity, and sets a challenge for your participants by asking them to build an item from LEGO bricks that has meaning in their life. This might be something related to a hobby, their favourite book or film, their most memorable holiday, or perhaps their family.
After a fixed building time (15 – 20 minutes should do it), invite participants to share their item and the story behind it with the team.
Tower building – competitive ice breaker activity
If you’re looking for a more competitive ice breaker activity, this competitive challenge will help bond teams through LEGO bricks. In team sizes of your choosing, ask them to build the tallest tower from LEGO bricks.
Each team member can only place one brick at a time, and the team should build clockwise around their group one brick at a time in this way. A time limit of 15 – 20 minutes is generally suitable for this activity, though it can be extended depending on the amount of LEGO bricks you have available per team.
For an even tougher challenge, ask participants to use their non-dominant hand (eg, their left hand if they are right-handed) to complete the challenge – their unused hand should remain behind their back for the duration of the challenge.
Need a longer team building event?
If you’re looking for a longer event, our team building activities with LEGO bricks are ideal – our team of seasoned facilitators come to the venue of your choice whether it’s in London,, Cambridge, Birmingham, Edinburgh or elsewhere in the UK, Bricks McGee bring the magic of these brilliant plastic blocks to you!