| * | Musical chairs with a fun twist. This version of musical chairs is played just like normal musical chair except the person that stops the music yells out the body part that is supposed to touch the chair, like "Left pinky finger" or "Right elbow", ect. It is really hard when you say "only your nose" or "only your ear, no hair can touch".
Special thanks to Karl Thrash for sharing this great game |
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| * | Human Checkers. First, you set up a "checkers board" with masking tape on the floor (make sure that you make it big enough for your group). I went ahead and made the full board 8 squares by 8 squares. There was plenty of room. Second, you need to make signs to indicate which teams the players are on; I just used 2 colors of construction paper and a little bit of tape to hold the colored construction paper to each player. Finally, get your teams together and have some fun! Set the kids up like you would a regular checkers board and the extra students talk to the players on their teams. For example, if I were playing and I was part of the black team I would talk to my other team mates to find the best spot to move to. I just started working with my youth as the teacher and they really were not talking too much but this game gave everyone the chance to talk and work together as a team.
Special thanks to Megan Fischer for sharing this great game |
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| * | Bloomer basket ball, you make two pairs
of very large waisted (hula hoop waist band) pants. You have two teams:
a thrower, a catcher (wears the pants), a ball getter (that gets the missed
balls and brings them back), For the ball, use the cheap beach balls that
are about half as big as a basket ball. The throwers try to throw as many
balls into the big pants as they can in 30 seconds from 10 feet away.
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| * | Washer Drop, this is a good game for any
age group. Cut the top half off of a plastic one gallon milk bottle, leaving
just the big square open bottom half. Dispose of the top half of the milk
bottle correctly. Tie a string from one side of the milk bottle bottom
to the other side forming a strap to hang the bottle bottom (like a bucket)
around your neck. With the string around your neck the bottle bottom should
hang about where your belt is. You may want to make the string a little
longer so you can adjust it for different size players. Get several good
size washers, tilt your head back and place one washer at a time on your
forehead. When you raise your head up straight try to make the washer fall
into the bottom of the milk bottle.
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| * | Ratman (can be adapted to any kind of animal
hat). Form teams. Everyone has a rat hat on. The two teams line up side
by side, The first player from each team takes a chunk of foam rubber cheese
from a box full of cheese and puts it on his hat. They run about 15 feet
to a second box tilt their head and drop the cheese into the second box,
run back to the next player and high five them. Then the second player
does the same thing. The team with the most cheese in the box wins.
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| * | The Balloon and toilet bowl plunger relay
race: This is a relay race where a round balloon (filled with water on
hot days) is passed from the top(big plunger end) of one plunger to the top
of the next plunger down the line of players. If you do not have enough
plungers for each player, you may have to pass a plunger to the next player
and then pass the balloon. At least two players on each team has to have
a toilet bowl plunger at the same time. The first team to get the balloon
to the end of the line wins. Any team that drops the balloon has to start
over again.
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| * | A quiet game called Aardvark: form two circles
with the kids. Both circles are the same size. Each kid is given an animal
name and hand signal in the same order for both circles. The Aardvark always
goes first. Using only hand signals, each player signals the player next
to them in turn. The first team to go all the way around the circle and
back to Aardvark wins.
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| * | A catch game: Two teams. Each team has:
a thrower, a catcher, a miss getter. The thrower throws the kind of frisbee
with a large hole in the middle. The catcher holds a small toilet plunger
on top of their head with the handle pointing up. The idea is to throw
the most frisbees onto the plunger handle in the shortest amount of time.
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| * | Sack race.
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| * | Frisbee throw into a ring on the ground.
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| * | Who can eat the most gummy lifesavers (bears,
worms, etc.) the fastest.
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| * | Four corners: In a classroom or gymnasium
area, without many obstacles, you assign a number to each corner of the
room. One child is selected to be "IT" and stands in the center of the
room. While this person counts to ten, all of the other children select
a corner to stand in. When the person finishes counting, one of the corner
numbers is called. All children in that corner are out and must sit down.
Play continues until one child is left and they become the new "IT".
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