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Paper Holding
Fun team-building challenge to develop cooperation & creative thinking.
- Innovative challenge
- Fosters cooperation
- Inspires creativity
- Very playful & fun
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Fun TeamBuilding Challenge
This novel group initiative creates an engaging physical puzzle that requires creative problem-solving and coordinated teamwork for teams to succeed. Paper Holding is a fun team-building challenge that tests the rapid innovation and collaboration skills of small teams. The physical constraints force teams to think creatively about spatial relationships, encouraging them to experiment with unconventional solutions together.
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Original post June 2016, last updated October 2025.
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this is my favourite game, my co-trainer even you the chinese red pocket envelop or cue card, so we can use it again.
Thanks Sam, and I love the adaptation of using (for example) red Chinese pocket envelopes 🙂
indeeeeed – would be noice to keep track of the ‘world record’ for the number of papers! (“,)
FYI, I have recorded a video that discusses Paper Holding, and I challenge the YouTube community to share their record of the number of sheets of paper various groups can manage. I forsee a new world’s record…
This is an outstanding lesson. It is very simple and the 7th graders had a wonderful time.
Shelli, so glad to hear that your group enjoyed this fun problem-solving exercise. How many sheets of paper did they manage to keep off the ground?
Did this with a group of 35 x 8-12 year olds. They had a fantastic time! Loved it!