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Team Challenges by Kris Bordessa - Review
Guest Author - Elsa Neal

Recommended for teachers and families

Team Challenges: 170+ Group Activities to Build Cooperation, Communication, and Creativity is a resource book packed with ideas and activities for encouraging and developing childrenīs creativity, lateral thinking, and communication skills.

I'm very impressed with author, Kris Bordessa's, ideas. From comments I've seen on the Internet, there don't seem to be many activity resources available for teachers or children's group leaders. There are probably enough tasks and ideas in Team Challenges to occupy a group for a full school year.

Click to get Team Challenges from Amazon.com In particular, Team Challenges emphasises creative and imaginative thinking. Kris Bordessa believes that creative thinking is a very important skill for children to develop. Kris says, "With an understanding of creative thinking, these kids understand that there are many solutions to one problem. And these kids will grow into adults who are able to tackle a problem from many different angles. What employer would love that?"

Kris is a homeschooling mother of two boys, and a group leader for a number of DestiNation Imagination and 4-H Youth Development teams, and came up with these group activities out of necessity. She was unable to find many resources for children's groups, and decided to develop her own, eventually collating the activities into a book.

The activities in Team Challenges are split into categories to make it easy to select tasks based on the requirements of the group, space or time constraints, and availability of materials.

Some of the challenges would be enjoyed just as much by a group of adults, either as entertainment at a party (yes, I'm thinking drinking games) or as office teambuilding exercises. So, be warned if the executive in your family suddenly pinches your Scout group's copy for the office.

The book's layout is clear and it is easy to read and use, and measurements are given in both metric and imperial versions.



Team Challenges is available from Amazon.com

If you enjoyed Team Challenges you may also enjoy 104 Activities That Build: Self-Esteem, Teamwork, Communication, Anger Management, Self-Discovery, Coping Skills by Alanna Jones, also from Amazon.com

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