BARS & RECREATION
IS YOUR MILWAUKEE
​TEAM BUILDING EXPERT

For more than ten years, Bars & Recreation has offered unique, high quality team building in Milwaukee. Activities include axe throwing, build-your-own mini golf, deck shuffleboard, private suite karaoke, trivia and painting. In 2023, Bars & Rec opened Amped, which offers meeting space & flexible space for even more creative team activities. 

Bars & Rec can host team building at one of our facilities, or some activities can travel Offsite to you.

Click here to see Amped's Creative Meeting Packages. Contact us about Team Building or any custom event.

Access our user-friendly karaoke system full of all your greatest hits. We’ll provide the microphones & props to really AMP up the party.
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DETAILS

Time: 1+ hours

Ideal for: Groups of 
​4 - 250

Available Offsite: Yes

Head to one of our sister bars for axe throwing, shuffleboard or build-your-own mini golf. Need a shuttle? We can help with that too.
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DETAILS

TIME :1.5 - 3 hrs

Ideal for:
Groups of 6 - 299

Available Offsite: Located in Downtown MKE

 Host-lead trivia with an option to customize based off company history, products or services. The sky's the limit with this option.

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DETAILS

Time : 45 min

Ideal for:
Groups of 3+

Available Offsite: Yes

Spin the Kamikaze Karaoke Wheel and whatever song comes up is what you sing. *Wheel can be customized to a decade or genre of karaoke songs.

DETAILS

Time : 45 min

Ideal for:
Groups of 6 - 99

​Available Offsite: Yes

Imagine a bingo card filled with popular songs. Our host sets the game pattern and queues up the music for you and your colleagues to sing along to while marking your bingo cards. Who will be the first to call Bingo?

DETAILs

Time : 45 min

Ideal for:
Groups of 6+

Available Offsite: Yes

Get ready for the most unique scavenger hunt you've ever experienced.  Your teams will explore the neighborhood, complete challenges and take photographic proof as they go.

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Time : 1 hr

Ideal for:
Groups of 20 - 60

Available Offsite: Yes

Blind taste 12 total wines—six are cheap, six are not. Can you tell the difference? Enjoy trivia and charcuterie while you’re tasting.

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Time : 90 min

Ideal for:
Groups of 6+

Available Offsite: No

Your team will compete in collaborative mini games, designed to challenge, delight, and, ya know, shake things up.

Choose three options from the tab below.
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Time : 1 hr

Ideal for:
Groups of 12+

Available Offsite: Yes

​options

​Collaboration/
Creativity

• Blind Draw (Blindfolded Pictionary Charades): One person looks at a picture card, is blindfolded and draws blindfolded what is on the card while the team has 1 minute to guess. Varying team sizes can be utilized.
• Pasta Tower: Each team will get 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of string, one yard of tape, and one marshmallow. Teams have 10 minutes to build the tallest tower that can support the weight of a marshmallow. Only the supplies given can be used. This will encourage collaboration, strategy, communication, critical thinking, and execution. Points based on height of the tower. 
• Rubber Cups: The goal of this challenge is for the players to stack cups in a pyramid while only holding on to the end of a string that is tied to a rubber band. They must work as a team to stretch the rubber band and grab/drop the cup. 
• Odd Couple: Cards have famous pairings. Cards get mixed up and handed out to the team. Players must match themselves with their famous partner by mingling around, but they can’t say what is on their card or ask others for the specific pairing they are looking for. Great for an Ice Breaker Game.

Speed/Fun

• Elephant Race: Teams will stand in a relay line behind vertically set up blocks of wood. The first person in the line will wear a pair of panty hose on their head containing a tennis ball in the foot of the stockings. The team member will swing their head back and forth, and knock down all of the blocks. Once accomplished, that member will quickly stand the blocks back up and pass their panty hose hat to the next team member in line, and repeat until all team members have completed. Points based on which team completes this challenge in the fastest time.
• Server Relay: Teams split into two groups at starting points across from each other. They lineup in a single form line. The first person must stack Dixie cups in a pyramid on server tray. They must then walk the tray to the person across from them and transfer the tray to the next player. If the cups fall on the way, no one can help restack. They must restack and continue through to the pass. Once all team members have had a turn the challenge is over. This relay is timed.
• Hula Hoop Challenge: In this challenge, team members must stand in a line and hold hands. The person at one end of the chain will be given a hula hoop, and the team must get the hula hoop from one end of the human chain to the other. The team will lose the challenge if hands are broken. This relay is timed.

Click here for more information about Creative Meetings at Amped.

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