Top 10 Fun Virtual Team Building Activities

Don't let team-building activities just become another mundane task for your employees—make it a fun and exciting experience for everyone! Discover the perfect event to engage your team and help them reach their goals.

You might be worried that your employees will consider team-building activities as just one more task to check off their to-do lists. However, team-building activities can be a fun and exciting way to break from the normal work routine. It’s all about finding the right event for your team’s personality and goals. 

Team building activities have been shown to build camaraderie and trust, which are both essential ingredients of a successful team. Holding back due to a lack of trust can also inhibit your employees’ ideas and creativity if they don’t feel comfortable expressing themselves. Choosing a fun team-building activity can be a great way to shake up a team that’s stagnating or in a rut. 

Can Team Building Be Fun?

Short answer: yes! It’s not just that team building can be fun; it shouldbe fun. According to Harvard Business Review, having fun at work has a positive effect on creativity, engagement, and fostering a feeling of shared purpose. This can be especially important for remote or hybrid-remote teams dealing with loneliness and disconnection. Having your team come together virtually to have fun can greatly increase team camaraderie, trust, and engagement.

Team building doesn’t have to be another office assignment. If you choose the right kind of activity for your team, it could be a lot of fun for everyone. CourseHorse offers many fun team-building activities such as scavenger hunts, trivia nights, arts and crafts, board game events, virtual escape rooms, mixology, lego building, cooking and baking, Bingo, and food and wine workshops. 

Top 10 Fun Team-Building Activities

#1: Virtual Brick Building Team Challenge

Virtual Brick Building Team Challenge, participants compete in a series of both individual and team Lego-building challenges. Each participant receives a Lego kit before the event, which they’ll use to complete the challenges. You might be asked to build a Lego self-portrait or a zoo scene. You might race to build the tallest Lego tower. Or compete in teams to build the exact same structure. 

#2: Virtual Terrarium Workshop

This relaxing Virtual Terrarium Workshop will have your group chatting while they build a beautiful terrarium. The host will teach participants about the principles of feng shui and help everyone select a perfect permanent home for the terrarium they build. All materials will be shipped to participants, including glass terrarium, succulent, reindeer moss, decorative rocks, organic soil, and crystals. 

#3: Virtual Wine & Cheese Workshop

Taste two delicious wines and cheeses in this Virtual Wine & Cheese Workshop. A professional wine and cheese expert will teach the basics of understanding wine and cheese and allow you to sample a red wine, a white wine, and two artisanal cheeses. All ingredients are mailed to participants, including a French Sauvignon Blanc, an Argentinian Malbec, French goat cheese, and sharp cheddar. 

#4: Virtual Murder Mystery: Team Escape

Virtual Murder Mystery: Team Escape combines murder mystery and escape room in this high-school reunion-themed event. Everyone is having a great time at the high-school reunion until the gym doors lock suddenly, and one of your classmates goes missing. Your team has one hour to solve the mystery using a series of notes left behind by the mastermind. 

#5: Virtual Scavenger Hunt

This Virtual Scavenger Hunt is a goofy way to have fun that will make your team feel like kids again. Your group will be broken up into mini-teams that will compete to finish a series of scavenger challenges: racing the clock to find specific items from around their house, image identification, and a riddle race to scavenge items. Your scavenger hunt will be hosted by a high-energy host.

#6: Virtual Gameshow Bingo

This Virtual Gameshow Bingo is a totally reimagined version of Bingo that incorporates video clips, images, and riddles. Your team will identify songs, name quotes, finish the joke, and more in this fast-paced game. Players may also be asked to collect things from around their house such as something with the company logo on it. The first player to score the number of boxes will win a special prize. 

#7: Virtual Game Night: Battle Royale

In Virtual Game Night: Battle Royale, your group will be split into mini-teams that will compete head-to-head in a series of classic games. In round one, they’ll race against the clock to list things under pressure. Round two is a fast-paced trivia round that will test their knowledge. In round three, mini-teams test their ability to make connections.

#8: Virtual Group Magic Trick Workshop

In this private one-hour Virtual Group Magic Trick Workshop, participants learn the secrets and theories behind several popular magic tricks. Your team will amaze their friends with card, coin, and money tricks. Everyone leaves the workshop feeling like an illusionist. You can choose an all-inclusive version in which participants are shipped a magic kit.

#9: Virtual Coffee Tasting

In this Virtual Coffee Tasting, your group will learn to taste and evaluate different coffees using the cupping technique. Coffee professionals in purchasing, roasting, and brewing use cupping. You’ll learn more about what makes coffee good from a professional coffee expert. All materials will be shipped to participants, including two 12-ounce bags of specialty coffee. 

#10: Virtual Team Olympics

Compete for Olympic medals in Virtual Team Olympics. Your group will break up into mini-teams to compete in a series of fun, hands-on, silly competitions. Some examples are Family Feud-style challenges, racing to build the tallest marshmallow towers, making balloon animals, playing harmonicas, and typing races. All materials will be shipped to participants, including marshmallows, toothpicks, harmonicas, and medals (Gold, Silver, Bronze). 

Other Fun Virtual Team-Building Activities

Virtual Comedy Show

This Virtual Comedy Show is a great way to have fun, a few laughs, and relax. You can choose an hour or a half-hour show by a professional comedian. This event is a great idea for a virtual happy hour or celebration when a major project is completed. Note: the length and content rating for your show can be customized. 

Virtual Escape Room: Marvel Avengers

In this Virtual Escape Room: Marvel Avengers, your group will be broken up into mini-teams to play as Marvel’s most popular characters. You’ll have one hour to escape the room by solving puzzles, uncovering clues, and decoding riddles. These will come in the form of character descriptions, virtual maps, and video and audio clips. 

Virtual Pictionary

Your group will be split into teams to play a virtual version of one of America’s favorite games: Virtual Pictionary. Mini-teams work together to guess what a teammate is drawing on a virtual whiteboard. There will be easy (bird), medium (motorcycle), and difficult (granddaughter) clues to keep your team challenged. 

Virtual Game of Thrones Trivia

What is Arya’s alias? What is House Martell’s motto? What is Euron’s ship called?

Have your team compete for the kingdom of Westeros in Virtual Game of Thrones Trivia. This Games of Throne trivia game asks your team to work cooperatively and individually to see who knows the most. 

Virtual True Crime Trivia

Do you know which serial killer dressed up as a clown? Who murdered Sharon Tate? Who was the most prolific serial killer in American history? If you’re a true crime fanatic, then you can test and display your knowledge at Virtual True Crime Trivia. This can be a fun activity for groups of friends who are murder obsessed. 

Virtual Name the Year Trivia

Remember the good old days in Virtual Name the Year Trivia. Your group will compete as individuals and cooperate as a group to guess which year something came from. You'll test your knowledge of history, music, and more in four rounds of trivia from the Paleolithic Age to the Space Age. 

Virtual Team-Building Improv Workshop

This low-stakes, fun Virtual Team-Building Improv Workshop will help your team with their communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. Improv is about being in the moment and working together, no matter how funny you are. A professional improv performer will work with your group to keep everyone going with the flow. 

Virtual Breaking Bad Trivia

What is Saul Goodman’s real name? In Season One, what is on Jesse’s license plate? Walt receives a book of poetry by which poet? Your team will compete to answer questions such as these in Virtual Breaking Bad Trivia. There will be four rounds on everything Heisenberg in a little over an hour.

Virtual Googling History

Virtual Googling History is a different approach to trivia. Instead of guessing the answers, participants race to look them up using Google. The answers cover historically underrepresented topics and groups, which makes this a great event for increasing diversity awareness. The game happens in three rounds: an image search, a scavenger hunt, and a debate round. The event ends with a sharing session for further bonding.

Virtual Escape the Final Frontier

Virtual Escape the Final Frontier is a space-themed virtual escape room game. Ten years before the game starts, the planet Pluto goes missing. Participants launch into space and race against the clock to locate the missing planet. Clues are a combination of video and audio clips, virtual maps, and character descriptions. 

Virtual 90s Pop Culture Bingo

Travel back to the last great decade with this Virtual 90s Pop Culture Bingo. Participants use digital bingo cards to keep score as they answer pop culture trivia questions on 90s music, movies, and TV. For example, they might be asked to identify an iconic 90s song based on a lyric or name the TV show when shown a cast photo. There will also be a scavenger hunt-style round in which participants scour their houses for 90s memorabilia. 

Virtual the Office Trivia

What was the name of Andy’s a capella group at Cornell? Who came in first place in the Michael Scott Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race for the Cure? Your group will compete as teams and individuals to answer questions about the beloved comedy series in Virtual The Office Trivia. 

Virtual Myth Busters: a True or False Game

Your group will break up into mini-teams to compete in four rounds of true and false questions in Virtual Myth Busters: a True or False Game. Based on the popular TV show, the questions will center on popular urban myths and folklore. Will someone test positive for heroin if they eat too many poppies? Could a penny dropped from the Empire State Building kill a person? Is the Mandela Effect proof of a multiverse?

Virtual Arrested Development Trivia

What does GOB stand for? Which character is played by Liza Minelli? What is the name of Tobias, Lindsay, and Maeby’s folk band? If you know there’s always money in the banana stand, then your team will love Virtual Arrested Development Trivia. Your group will compete in mini-teams to answer four rounds of different-style trivia while reminiscing about the beloved TV show. 

Virtual Pirate Treasure Hunt: Escape Room

Ahoy! Your team will race the clock to find buried treasure in Virtual Pirate Treasure Hunt: Escape Room, a pirate-themed escape room game. Your group will solve a series of puzzles to find buried pirate treasure using clues such as audio and video clips, virtual maps, and activities. 

Virtual Get to Know Your Teammates 4-Part Series

Which person on your team loves to belt out Drake in the shower? Which co-worker has hiked the Appalachian Trail? Which person in Marketing grew up in Alaska? Learn more about your team in Virtual Get to Know Your Teammates 4-Part Series. In a four-part series of one-hour icebreaker events: Get to Know Your Teammates, Shared Passions, Our Differences are Our Strengths, and Collaborating Together. 

Virtual DALL-Ewood Bingo

Quick: which city is DALL-Ewood located in? Virtual DALL-Ewood Bingo invites your team to take a break from their 9 to 5 in this DALL-E Parton-themed bingo trivia game. Using digital bingo cards, your team will compete to answer enough DALL-E trivia questions to score B-I-N-G-O. You’ll listen and identify DALL-E songs, DALL-E movie quotes, and general DALL-E-themed trivia. Your team will always love you after this event. 

Virtual Westworld Trivia

Unravel the mysteries of Westworld with Virtual Westworld Trivia. You’ll be tested on storylines, hosts, and parks in four rounds of different types of trivia, including a traditional trivia round, a music round, an image round, and a surprise round. Your team will laugh as they compete to answer the most questions about this beloved show. 

Virtual Escape the Upside Down

Your group will have 1.15 hours to escape the upside down in Virtual Escape the Upside Down, a Stranger Things-inspired virtual escape room game. Travel back to 1983, where a strange game of Dungeons and Dragons opens a portal to the Upside Down. Your team will have 1.15 hours to solve a series of puzzles and escape the Upside Down. Clues will include audio and video clips, virtual maps, character descriptions, and activities.