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10 Winter Team Building Activities

Name: PPS Canada
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Winter is the perfect season to strengthen the bonds within your team. Looking to spark creativity, improve communication, or simply reward your employees? Winter team building activities are a great way to motivate and bring your team together.

Organizing a winter team building activity offers several benefits for a company:

Winter is a time when motivation can drop. A team building activity is a great way to break the routine and reignite team spirit. The season also brings unique opportunities for both indoor and outdoor team building activities.

After a long year of hard work, organizing a winter activity is a thoughtful way to thank your team for their efforts. Get ready for memorable moments with a winter team building experience!

Here are our top 10 winter team building activity ideas!

1. WINTER OLYMPICS

Entertainment, games and friendly competition

Give your team a memorable experience with the Winter Olympics team building! Take part in fun and active games designed to strengthen bonds between colleagues—all while having a great time.

Whether indoors or outdoors, our wide range of challenges combines friendly competition with lighthearted fun. Get ready for games like the Log Contest, Tug of War, Obstacle Course, Giant Volleyball, and much more. With a flexible duration of 2 to 3 hours, this event is perfect for breaking the routine and boosting team cohesion.

Each activity is led by professional hosts who know how to entertain, energize, and engage your employees. Be prepared to laugh, take on fun challenges, and create lasting memories together.

Don’t miss this opportunity to energize your team with the Winter Olympics Challenge!

2. TEAM BUILDING SURVIVOR: GET TO KNOW YOUR COLLEAGUES BETTER

Ready to take on team challenges this winter?

The Survivor team building activity, available this winter, is designed for the boldest teams! Immerse your group in a scenario where survival depends on collaboration, creativity, and the ability to push beyond their limits. Whether in the forest, on a mountain, or even in a warehouse, your employees will have to unite to overcome a series of challenges. It’s a powerful way to build team spirit and test endurance.

In this immersive 2 to 3-hour experience, your colleagues will be tasked with building a totem using available resources and tackling both physical and mental challenges. Led by professional facilitators, this unique adventure will create unbreakable bonds and a serious adrenaline rush—no matter the weather!

Who will rise to the top and proudly raise the totem? Come prove the true strength of your team!

Employees making a fire during the Survivor team building activity

Survivor team building activity camp with fire

Survivor team building activity camp with employees

3. A ONE-OF-A-KIND (HUMOROUS) MILITARY BOOT CAMP TEAM BUILDING

Fall in line under the command of Corporal Cervel—a wild, over-the-top military leader!

This hilarious winter team building activity throws your team into a full-blown military boot camp experience! Whether indoors or out on a snowy field, get ready to face physical, tactical, and strategic challenges—all in a high-energy setting where seriousness is just for show!

Over 2.5 to 3 hours, your colleagues will be divided into battalions and follow the intense (and slightly unhinged) orders of Corporal Cervel. Teamwork, communication, and quick decision-making will be key to completing the missions—without pushing the Corporal over the edge! With a realistic set-up and authentic military props, the immersive experience will feel straight out of a movie.

Do you have what it takes to survive this winter boot camp? Will your squad come out on top, or return empty-handed? Let your team take on this one-of-a-kind challenge—brought to you by PPS CANADA!

4. THE AMAZING RACE

Ready for an adventure full of twists and turns? Step off the beaten path with PPS CANADA’s Winter Amazing Race team building activity!

Inspired by the show The Amazing Race, this high-energy competition will push your employees to their limits in a true race against the clock. Strategy, communication, and teamwork aren’t optional—they’re the key to winning.

Right from the start, your team members are split into groups and must carefully choose which challenges they believe they can complete within the time limit. As they follow a set route—indoors or outdoors—they’ll encounter hosts at key checkpoints who will throw in surprise tasks and opportunities to earn bonus points. The goal? Complete all stages before time runs out and prove your team has what it takes to overcome obstacles together.

This isn’t just a fun day out—it’s a real test of creativity, collaboration, and resilience. With laughter, adrenaline, and pressure-packed decisions, Amazing Race is one of the most effective team building experiences you can offer. Ready to step up?

For those who prefer to stay warm, our winter team building activities can also take place indoors!

5. MULTI-CHALLENGE: ACTIVITIES TO STRENGTHEN TEAM COHESION

Strengthen the bonds between your employees in a fun and dynamic way this winter with our team building activity!

This immersive team building activity is designed to foster a true team spirit! The Multi-Challenge experience is perfect for developing communication, creativity, leadership, and a sense of responsibility.

Each 15-minute challenge allows participants to identify their strengths and weaknesses. The variety of tasks is tailored to your group’s specific needs, ensuring a personalized experience.

Teams of 5 to 10 people will compete in a fun, high-energy atmosphere. A professional facilitator will lead the activities and provide all necessary materials. The event can last anywhere from 1.5 to 3 hours, depending on your preferences.

Employees blindfolded playing during the multi challenge team-building activity.

Challenge with plastic cups team building

Multi Défis - Activité Team Building au Québec

6. TEAM BUILDING DNA: INSPIRED BY A POPULAR SCIENCE SERIES

Try this exciting new team building activity this winter!

This innovative and humorous concept will put your team members’ communication and cohesion to the test.

In DNA team building activity, participants will face crucial choices that reveal their collective identity and the dynamics within the company. Whether it’s selecting the best candidates for key roles or taking a stand on various issues, every decision will be analyzed. This playful process highlights the characteristics and strengths of your team.

With diverse groups, you’ll have the opportunity to observe how your employees interact and identify emerging trends based on factors such as age, gender, or skills. The activity offers a humorous yet scientific insight into your company’s culture. This team-building exercise encourages reflection on topics like trust, teamwork, and even areas for improvement such as the cafeteria offering or working conditions.

After this enriching experience, you’ll be able to leverage the gathered information to adjust and enhance cohesion within your team.

Employees working together during a corporate team building activity

ADN - Activité de team building au Québec | PPS CANADA

7. CONSTRUCTION TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY

A team-building activity with a construction theme, perfect for winter or summer!

Spark creativity and strengthen your team’s cohesion in a fun and collaborative way. Armed with a variety of materials, your team members will design a unique structure, showcasing their talents and working together to achieve a common goal.

The key ingredients? Humor and creativity! Each participant will identify their strengths and weaknesses to better contribute to the team’s collective success. At the end of this friendly competition, the most inventive team will be awarded the winners’ medals.

The perfect construction team building activity to unite your teams while fostering a spirit of collaboration.

Construction Team Building Activity employees

actors of the construction team building activity

Employees building a structure during a team building activity

8. TOP-SECRET

Our professional top-secret agents, dressed in suits and wearing dark sunglasses like they belong to the CIA, will guide you through a series of challenges. These agents take themselves very seriously and are said to host the event with a perfectly straight face. Will you be able to keep your laughter… nervous laughter?

Inspired by famous action movies and spy series, this team building activity immerses you in the role of secret agents in training. Your mission? Defuse a bomb and save your colleagues before time runs out!

Set in a scene worthy of an anti-terrorist unit, you’ll need to demonstrate leadership, composure, and unwavering teamwork to succeed. From code-breaking and puzzle-solving to trust-building challenges, every decision counts. Guided by our professional agents, you’ll have to collaborate under pressure to complete your mission.

Dare to take on the challenge and discover which of your colleagues has what it takes to be a true top-secret agent!

9. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION: AN IMMERSIVE TEAM-BUILDING ACTIVITY

In this unique team building activity, each member of your team will play a fresh recruit straight out of the academy, ready to solve an unfinished criminal case. You’ll analyze crime scenes, uncover clues, create composite sketches, and even make arrests—all through realistic and humorous scenarios.

The key to cracking the case lies in the unity, cohesion, and communication between participants. Guided by our professional actors dressed as police officers, your colleagues will experience an unforgettable adventure in an authentic police station setting. Expect hilarious moments where humor and seriousness combine to boost your team’s synergy.

This team building activity is a fantastic way to strengthen bonds while discovering surprising sides of your coworkers. Will you be able to solve the case and earn your badges?

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criminal investigation team building Investigator

Set decorations for the criminal investigation team building activity

10. VICKING TEAM BUILDING ACTIVITY

Set off on a conquest of the North in this immersive team building activity where your employees become fierce Vikings or Valkyries! For 2.5 to 3 hours, step into the shoes of these legendary warriors and experience a unique adventure that will strengthen your team’s cohesion.

From the very beginning, each team will forge its own clan identity. Create your battle cry, design your coat of arms, and choose your colors. Creativity and teamwork will be your greatest allies to bring out your Viking spirit.

Together, build your war weapon using the materials provided: wood, hardware, and various tools. Under the supervision of our team, you’ll craft catapults and other formidable machines. The goal: to face off against rival clans in the epic final battle!

Teams will compete in an elimination format until the victorious clan is crowned!

Choose this winter team building activity for a unique adventure that combines team spirit, creativity, and communication.

Book Winter Team Building Activities with PPS CANADA!

Book your team building activities this winter and strengthen your team’s cohesion! Enjoy our customized activities tailored to your company’s needs. Contact us now to plan your event.

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