Divide the girls into groups of six and hand out craft supplies including balloons, old newspapers, paper mache paste, colorful tissue papers, glitter, straws, tape, ribbons and beads. Ask the girls to design and build a mascot that represents the entire team's aspirations or motivations. To accomplish this, they will have to talk to each other about their personal views, negotiate solutions and make compromises that suit everyone in the group. This team-building activity has to be spread over several days as designing and building the art piece requires some time.
Prepare a set of bingo cards with 25 squares, writing a description in each square that could fit many people, such as "has an older sister," "likes fish" or "plays volleyball." Give copies to all the girls and ask them to find others in the group who fit the descriptions. When they have found someone who can confirm the statement on the bingo sheet, they have to fill in the name and also ask the other girl for more details. A complete sentence could read "Mary has an older sister called Judy," "Caroline like fish with rice and carrots" or "Lily plays volleyball on Saturdays." To complete their sentences, the girls have to communicate with each other and get to know the other girls better. The game continues until everyone has five answers on a horizontal or vertical row.
Ask the girls to walk around the classroom while you are playing some music. Whenever the music stops, the girls have to stand still and talk to the girl closest to them about a specific topic, including favorite books, movies, teachers, pets or dislikes. Give the girls two minutes before you turn on the music again. Change the topic for each time you stop the music, and instruct the girls not to talk to the same partner twice. By talking to each other about popular topics, the girls will notice that they have a lot in common while familiarizing themselves with the others in the group.
Write down some sounds on pieces of paper, including car engine, sirens, animal noises or bells. Make several pieces of paper for each noise. Have the girls each draw one piece of paper out of a hat and read the noise category to themselves; they are not allowed to tell each other what group they are in. Then have the girls wear blindfolds and once all their eyes covered, find their team partners by making the noise on their piece of paper. The noisy mayhem will not only cause a lot of giggles but also inspire a team spirit as everyone is making a fool out of herself.