These Fun Group Activities Make the Ultimate Team Bonding Experience in the Bay Area

On the search for team building activities in San Francisco that break the mold of traditional team building seminars? With our arts, crafts, and cooking workshops, introduce your colleagues to amazing Bay Area activities that will have them discovering and exploring new sides to themselves - together!  

Trying out new creative hobbies, whether it's learning how to paint your own rendition of the Golden Gate Bridge or how to make dumplings from scratch, is next-level team bonding. There are no forced get-to-know-you games or trust falls. Instead, you and your colleagues will get out and explore some of the coolest things to do in the Bay Area as you learn how to make arts and crafts projects from talented teaching artists throughout the community, from Santa Cruz and San Jose up to San Francisco and the North Bay. 

Trying out new creative hobbies can be intimidating, even if it's something you know you really want to do. That's why doing creative workshops as corporate team building activities is such a great choice. Everyone can step outside of the comfort zones of their professional roles and skillsets, and embark on something new together. Authentic and organic team bonding will take place as colleagues learn, laugh, and encourage one another. 

All of our Bay Area workshops are beginner-friendly, so no matter what activity you choose, you'll be in great hands even if you've got absolutely no experience. Our teachers pride themselves on creating welcoming and inclusive environments and always providing clear instructions. 

At the end of our Bay Area experiences, you get to take home a completed project as a tangible reminder of your fun day of ultimate team bonding. Whether it's a handmade ceramic vessel, a box of beautifully decorated cupcakes, or a DIY terrarium is up to you! Explore some of the unusual team building ideas below and you're likely to discover something you haven't considered, but that will be perfect for your team to try. 

Learn how to make chocolate

If you've got some chocoholics on your team, then a chocolate decorating and tasting class that comes to you anywhere within 50 miles of Saratoga is an inspiring idea for team building activities in the Bay Area! Our chocolate making classes include an educational element, where you get to sit back and listen as expert chocolatiers describe their process. Then, it's time to get hands-on and craft homemade chocolate truffles, fudge, and other goodies. In this class, you'll also receive expert guidance on how to decorate chocolates with special tools to create beautifully delicate treats.

Whether you bring some of the chocolates to the office to share as a fun mid-day pick-me-up, or send everyone home with a batch to share with their loved ones, one thing's for sure: team bonding will definitely occur! With such a delicious setting, there will be plenty of smiles and good vibe to go around. 

Try out a terrarium making workshop

If you are keen to try out team building activities in the Bay Area that evoke a sense of childhood play, then learning how to make a terrarium might be the perfect choice for your crew! Whether or not everyone on your team has memories of making sand art as a kid, you can rest assured they'll be able to tap into their inner playfulness at a sand art terrarium workshop in San Mateo. 

By selecting colors of sand and learning how to blend them together to create a one-of-a-kind terrarium, you and your colleagues will get the chance to express your own unique personalities and styles. Simple team building activities like this, where everyone gets to make a cool, artistic object and there's no wrong way to do it, have the effect of infusing teams with creativity and confidence. Plus, they are a lot of fun! It's a safe bet that after building a terrarium, more than one of your colleagues will want to bring their new, handmade miniature world into the office with them as a cool desk decoration. 

Have a paint party

Paint and sip classes have grown more and more popular in recent years, and there's good reason for that - they are a blast! If you're looking for team building exercises for work, put down the handbook of by-the-book teamwork games and pick up a paintbrush and a glass of wine instead. Enjoy a laid-back happy hour vibe with your colleagues, paired with a fun and exciting adventure in learning some easy painting for beginners. 

Some of our paint and sip classes take place in local artist studios throughout the Bay Area, while others, such as a team building painting workshop from Paint the Town, can travel to your office and set up there. This workshop features not only instruction on learning how to paint, but fun group games that strengthen team bonding, like having everyone paint one portion of a larger painting on their individual canvases, then putting them together at the end like a puzzle, to see what the collective image is. 

Explore perfume making

If you've got some rock stars on your team, why not treat them as such and give them the chance to make their own custom fragrance! Our Bay Area perfume making workshops make unusual team building ideas that might have the effect of getting everyone a bit out of their comfort zone, in a really fun way. Led by experts who will walk you through the ins and outs of scent blending, these sensory-stimulating workshops let you choose fragrances that you love from a big collection of essential oils and aroma blends, with plenty of options both men and women love.

At our perfume making class in Mountain View, everybody leaves with a bottle of their unique perfume, complete with a label and a name they select for it. You'll find that, along the way, exploring different scents together and sharing why different selections are made opens the door for fascinating and authentic conversations that wouldn't have otherwise come up. And isn't that the best kind of team bonding? 

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