4 Group Games

These are a group of games we are playing at camp this year. These are not original, but modifications of games we have played other places. Our students, especially our middle schoolers, really enjoy them.

Sheet Roll Up

Separate kids into teams, have a sheet for each team spread out in front of their team.
Instructions: Each team member will lay down and roll his or herself into the sheet and roll across the floor and back. When that team member returns the next team member rolls up in the sheet and repeats the action of the previous team member. This goes on until the last member returns. The first team with all of its team members to go and return wins. It’s a relay, so there can be different challenges added, like going twice or going around something.


Trash Can Bump

Kids circle up around a trash can and hold hands. They pull back and forth on each other and try to get the others to touch the trash can in the middle. If anyone touches the trash can, they are out. If two players hands cross over the trash can, both players are out. If two players disconnect, both players are out. When a person gets out, the game stops, the players reattach where the player got out and start game again. This proceeds until there is only one person left, that person wins. You can add a challenge by putting two trash cans in the middle at the beginning, making them stand backwards, etc. It is good to separate boys from girls in this game, due to the possibility of violence and the pushing and pulling.


Wall Golf

Separate into teams. Draw golf course on large, dark-colored paper, with certain sections having lower points than others. Hang paper on wall. Players take turns golfing at the wall. The golf ball can be made of anything, like a nerf ball dunked in flower, or paint, or whatever. The kids golf the ball at the wall and receive the points for where they hit on the wall. High point penalty for not hitting the sheet at all. The team with the lowest score wins.


9-legged race

This is much like a 3-legged race. In fact, it is the same, simply intensified.
Separate kids into teams. 2 kids tie their ankles together and make their way as fast as possible to the other end of the playing area and back. When they get back, one of them ties his or her ankle to the next person in line’s, thus having made a 3-legged race into a 5-legged race. That group goes and returns and adds another player, making a 7-legged race, and so on and so on. You can have as many kids added on to the race as you have need for. It gets interesting. If their ankles come untied, they have to start back at the start line, but they do not have to start back at 3-legged if they are on 7-legged, they just have to start back with that group. First team to have everyone on their team go and return wins.