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Marshmallow Challenge
Classic team-building activity to challenge small teams.
- Playful & fun
- Simple props
- Promotes creativity
- Builds problem-solving skills
- Many metaphors
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Classic Team-Building Activity
This popular team-based challenge promotes collaboration, creativity, and strategic thinking as groups build the tallest free-standing structure using limited resources. In this classic team-building activity, the Marshmallow Challenge motivates participants to communicate effectively and leverage each other’s strengths by focusing on problem-solving and resource management, not to mention the importance of planning and execution.
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Original post October 2015, last updated September 2025.
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I gave my teams unlimited supplies. It was interesting to see just about everyone over-engineer their tower and use too much material and their towers would just fall over and fail. It took the teams quite a while to figure out that less is more in this activity.
Brad, I have seen the same outcome from teams who are given too much stuff. It always seems like a good idea at the time… 🙂
I used this activity with a group of middle school students and it worked great! The students loved the challenge and we had a good discussion afterwards about teamwork and creative problem-solving.