Team building activities trend hard toward extroversion: escape rooms, bowling, axe-throwing, trivia nights. Half your team quietly dreads them.
A facilitated paint-by-numbers session is one of the few formats that lands well across personality types — and produces something the office can hang afterwards.
Why It Suits Mixed Teams
Introverts and extroverts both engage. There's no scoreboard, no losing team, and no pressure to perform. Conversation happens naturally over the painting, but isn't forced.
It's also accessible for team members with mobility, sensory, or social anxiety needs that escape rooms quietly exclude.
Format That Works for Corporate Sessions
2 hours. Boardroom or off-site venue. One small canvas per person (20×30 cm). Snacks and drinks at the 60-minute mark. No facilitator lectures — let people paint.
The goal isn't a finished piece, it's the shared two hours.
Themed vs. Custom Kits
Themed: all team members paint variations of the same image (e.g. the city skyline), chosen from the ready-made paint-it-yourself kits. Custom: each person paints a kit made from their own photo. Themed produces a cohesive office wall; custom produces more engagement.
Most teams should run themed for the first session and custom for repeat sessions.
Cost and Logistics
~$40–60 per head for kits, and you can ask us about bulk pricing. Add catering and venue if off-site. Less than a comparable bowling-and-dinner night, and the artefact (the wall of paintings) lasts years.
Australian offices can typically run this within the standard team-building budget.
What to Do With the Finished Pieces
Display them in a meeting room, breakout space, or wellness room. Photograph them with each team member for the internal newsletter. Don't make people take them home unless they want to.
A wall of team paintings becomes a quiet recruiting asset — visitors notice.
Corporate team building doesn't need to be loud to work. A facilitated paint-by-numbers session is one of the best-kept secrets in the Australian workplace wellbeing space — and one of the easiest to organise.
— Be Artistic Club