Cat & Mouse: Guide your team through a fun, engaging challenge where trust, communication, and teamwork take center stage! 

In Cat & Mouse, partners work together to help a hungry mouse safely navigate a maze while avoiding prowling cats and completing one final obstacle—carefully lifting the mouse over a live mousetrap to place it safely on the cheese. This memorable experiential learning activity creates laughter, anticipation, and meaningful conversations that extend far beyond the game itself.

Designed for leadership development, team building, communication workshops, and staff training, Cat & Mouse encourages participants to slow down, communicate with intention, listen actively, and build trust one instruction at a time. Whether you're working with corporate teams, educators, camp staff, students, or nonprofit organizations, this versatile activity provides a powerful metaphor for effective coaching, clear communication, and shared success.

Key Features of Cat & Mouse:

Interactive Team Challenge: Partners alternate between guiding and being guided, strengthening trust, communication, coaching, and active listening skills.

Adjustable Difficulty: Customize the experience by using one or two mousetraps at the finish and choosing whether participants return to the previous intersection or the starting point after touching a cat.

Multiple Teams at Once: Accommodates 2–8 participants per tarp (up to four pairs working simultaneously), making it ideal for workshops, classrooms, and leadership programs.

Complete Facilitation Kit: Includes the Cat & Mouse tarp, eight plush mice, eight mousetraps, and a detailed facilitator guide with setup instructions, facilitation tips, variations, safety considerations, and reflection questions.

Durable Materials: The oversized maze tarp is printed on heavy-duty billboard material, making it durable, weather-resistant, and suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.

Powerful Debrief Opportunities: Easily connects to conversations about trust, leadership, communication, psychological safety, coaching, active listening, problem-solving, and teamwork.

Why We Love Cat & Mouse:

Cat & Mouse transforms a simple maze into a memorable learning experience that participants won't soon forget. The activity naturally demonstrates that effective communication isn't about talking more—it's about communicating clearly. Guides learn to coach with intention, while the "mouse" experiences the vulnerability and confidence that come from trusting another person. As participants encounter wrong turns, curious cats, and the suspense of navigating over a mousetrap, they discover that trust is built through encouragement, patience, and shared success.

Inspired by an original concept from Chris Cavert and West Shirley, Cat & Mouse has been thoughtfully reimagined by Training Wheels into a complete facilitation kit that is easy to use and packed with meaningful learning opportunities.

Whether you're facilitating leadership development, corporate team building, experiential learning, staff development, youth programs, camps, schools, or communication workshops, Cat & Mouse is sure to become a favorite addition to your facilitator toolkit.