Spider Web<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: Ball of yarn.
\nTake a ball of yarn and tie a loop at the loose end (this is to help guides hold on to it). Have everyone in a circle, one holds on to the
\nloop state their name and one thing about themself then tosses the ball (still holding on to the loop) to the person across from them.
\nThe guide who catches it states their name and something about themself; they holds a piece of yarn and toss the ball to another guide.
\nThis continues until everyone is holding a piece of the yarn.
\nLeader note:<\/strong> \u00a0this is a great activity to show the kids the troop\/group to \u00a0connected. If you pull on the string while
\neveryone is holding on, everyone should feel the tug. Use this as a starting point for a discussion on the importance of
\ngroup cooperation and an individual’s contribution to the group.<\/div>\nDouble That!!<\/h4>\nSitting in a circle everyone must come up with a word that starts with the same letter as their first name that would describe them
\n– such as: Ditsy Donna, Sneaky Sam, Independent Isabel, Kind Kevin etc.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nInside Games<\/h2>\nKnots<\/h4>\nHave everyone get in a circle. Each person grabs a hand of another guide. Each participant should have grabbed the
\nhand of two different guides members (one in each hand). As soon as all of the hands have been connected the team begins to![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.guides4guides.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/290574428_10158959729383660_3651796424474609979_n.jpg\")
\nuntangle the knot. Variation: Have 2 or more teams racing to see what team is the fastest.<\/div>\nInterview<\/h4>\nEach guide finds a partner they have never met. During a three-minute period, they try to learn five things about each other by asking
\nand answering questions such as these: “where are you from?” “What is your interest in scouting?” “Do you have pets?”
\n“What is your name?” Each guide will present what they have learned about their new friend to the rest of the group.<\/div>\nScavenger Hunt<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nPencil or pen for each participant<\/div>\npre-printed scavenger hunt<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCreate a grid with squares about one inch in size. In each of the boxes put in a statement such as “find someone who has never
\nbeen camping,” or “find someone that has traveled to an OSG Moot or Hullaballoo” You can come up with any number of
\ncategories. Give everyone a copy of the scavenger hunt and give them a set time to find someone in the group that matches the
\ncategory and get their signature.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMissing Half<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nOne picture per two guides cut in half, tape or safety pin for each guide<\/div>\nTake a bunch of pictures from a magazine and cut them in half. Pin one half to one guide (on their back) and the other half to another
\nguide (on their back). Then have all the girls try to find the person who has the missing half of their picture. (They cannot look at their
\npicture before you pin the picture to their back). Each guide must ask other guides questions about their picture so that they can guess
\nwhat it looks like and find the missing half of their picture.<\/div>\n2 Truths & A Wish<\/h4>\nHave each person think of two of the wildest facts about themselves and one wild, but untrue fact, so three total facts to share
\nwith the group. It is up to the group to guess which fact is untrue.<\/div>\nMouse Trap<\/h4>\n
Best to play this game with 10-30 participants. (With 30 participants start with a bigger trap) 4 participants become the Mouse
\nTrap. They stand in a circle, facing in, holding hands with their arms extended and up high. The other children are “mice” and they
\nwalk in and out of the trap. One person facing away calls “spring the trap” and the guides of the trap bring down their arms catching
\n(hopefully) some of the mice inside. The caught mice become part of the trap. The game continues until only a few 4 of the mice
\nare left then they become the trap and the game begins again.<\/p>\n
Electricity<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: one coin and one small object for grabbing<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and then sit down facing your buddy. Everyone grabs the hand of the person next to them, not their buddy, so
\nthey can form a circuit. At one end of the line place an object. Have everyone close their eyes, except the two at the opposite
\nend from the object. Flip a coin, (so the two that has their eyes open can see) if the coin lands on heads the leader with eyes
\nopen starts a squeeze and the squeeze should continue down the line and the person at the end of the line will pick up the object
\nbefore the other team. If the coin lands on trails, the guides should freeze, not squeeze. See who can win the race!<\/div>\nSmiles<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: One coin<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and face each other. The two lines become the two teams. Assign each side a side of a coin. Flip the coin.
\nWhatever side it lands on that team must try to make the other team smile in thirty seconds. Whoever they get to smile must join
\nthat team. Continue until all players end up on one team.<\/div>\nFroggie Detective<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One is assigned to be the detective and the leaves the room. Everyone closes their eyes, and the leader
\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\nFollow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.guides4guides.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-Facebook-Post-Landscape.png\")
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.guides4guides.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Untitled-Pinterest-Pin-1000-\u00d7-1500-px.png\")
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nTake a ball of yarn and tie a loop at the loose end (this is to help guides hold on to it). Have everyone in a circle, one holds on to the
\nloop state their name and one thing about themself then tosses the ball (still holding on to the loop) to the person across from them.
\nThe guide who catches it states their name and something about themself; they holds a piece of yarn and toss the ball to another guide.
\nThis continues until everyone is holding a piece of the yarn.
\nLeader note:<\/strong> \u00a0this is a great activity to show the kids the troop\/group to \u00a0connected. If you pull on the string while
\neveryone is holding on, everyone should feel the tug. Use this as a starting point for a discussion on the importance of
\ngroup cooperation and an individual’s contribution to the group.<\/div>\n
Double That!!<\/h4>\nSitting in a circle everyone must come up with a word that starts with the same letter as their first name that would describe them
\n– such as: Ditsy Donna, Sneaky Sam, Independent Isabel, Kind Kevin etc.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nInside Games<\/h2>\nKnots<\/h4>\nHave everyone get in a circle. Each person grabs a hand of another guide. Each participant should have grabbed the
\nhand of two different guides members (one in each hand). As soon as all of the hands have been connected the team begins to
\nuntangle the knot. Variation: Have 2 or more teams racing to see what team is the fastest.<\/div>\nInterview<\/h4>\nEach guide finds a partner they have never met. During a three-minute period, they try to learn five things about each other by asking
\nand answering questions such as these: “where are you from?” “What is your interest in scouting?” “Do you have pets?”
\n“What is your name?” Each guide will present what they have learned about their new friend to the rest of the group.<\/div>\nScavenger Hunt<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nPencil or pen for each participant<\/div>\npre-printed scavenger hunt<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCreate a grid with squares about one inch in size. In each of the boxes put in a statement such as “find someone who has never
\nbeen camping,” or “find someone that has traveled to an OSG Moot or Hullaballoo” You can come up with any number of
\ncategories. Give everyone a copy of the scavenger hunt and give them a set time to find someone in the group that matches the
\ncategory and get their signature.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMissing Half<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nOne picture per two guides cut in half, tape or safety pin for each guide<\/div>\nTake a bunch of pictures from a magazine and cut them in half. Pin one half to one guide (on their back) and the other half to another
\nguide (on their back). Then have all the girls try to find the person who has the missing half of their picture. (They cannot look at their
\npicture before you pin the picture to their back). Each guide must ask other guides questions about their picture so that they can guess
\nwhat it looks like and find the missing half of their picture.<\/div>\n2 Truths & A Wish<\/h4>\nHave each person think of two of the wildest facts about themselves and one wild, but untrue fact, so three total facts to share
\nwith the group. It is up to the group to guess which fact is untrue.<\/div>\nMouse Trap<\/h4>\n
Best to play this game with 10-30 participants. (With 30 participants start with a bigger trap) 4 participants become the Mouse
\nTrap. They stand in a circle, facing in, holding hands with their arms extended and up high. The other children are “mice” and they
\nwalk in and out of the trap. One person facing away calls “spring the trap” and the guides of the trap bring down their arms catching
\n(hopefully) some of the mice inside. The caught mice become part of the trap. The game continues until only a few 4 of the mice
\nare left then they become the trap and the game begins again.<\/p>\n
Electricity<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: one coin and one small object for grabbing<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and then sit down facing your buddy. Everyone grabs the hand of the person next to them, not their buddy, so
\nthey can form a circuit. At one end of the line place an object. Have everyone close their eyes, except the two at the opposite
\nend from the object. Flip a coin, (so the two that has their eyes open can see) if the coin lands on heads the leader with eyes
\nopen starts a squeeze and the squeeze should continue down the line and the person at the end of the line will pick up the object
\nbefore the other team. If the coin lands on trails, the guides should freeze, not squeeze. See who can win the race!<\/div>\nSmiles<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: One coin<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and face each other. The two lines become the two teams. Assign each side a side of a coin. Flip the coin.
\nWhatever side it lands on that team must try to make the other team smile in thirty seconds. Whoever they get to smile must join
\nthat team. Continue until all players end up on one team.<\/div>\nFroggie Detective<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One is assigned to be the detective and the leaves the room. Everyone closes their eyes, and the leader
\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\nFollow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\n– such as: Ditsy Donna, Sneaky Sam, Independent Isabel, Kind Kevin etc.<\/div>\n
Inside Games<\/h2>\nKnots<\/h4>\nHave everyone get in a circle. Each person grabs a hand of another guide. Each participant should have grabbed the
\nhand of two different guides members (one in each hand). As soon as all of the hands have been connected the team begins to
\nuntangle the knot. Variation: Have 2 or more teams racing to see what team is the fastest.<\/div>\nInterview<\/h4>\nEach guide finds a partner they have never met. During a three-minute period, they try to learn five things about each other by asking
\nand answering questions such as these: “where are you from?” “What is your interest in scouting?” “Do you have pets?”
\n“What is your name?” Each guide will present what they have learned about their new friend to the rest of the group.<\/div>\nScavenger Hunt<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nPencil or pen for each participant<\/div>\npre-printed scavenger hunt<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCreate a grid with squares about one inch in size. In each of the boxes put in a statement such as “find someone who has never
\nbeen camping,” or “find someone that has traveled to an OSG Moot or Hullaballoo” You can come up with any number of
\ncategories. Give everyone a copy of the scavenger hunt and give them a set time to find someone in the group that matches the
\ncategory and get their signature.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMissing Half<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nOne picture per two guides cut in half, tape or safety pin for each guide<\/div>\nTake a bunch of pictures from a magazine and cut them in half. Pin one half to one guide (on their back) and the other half to another
\nguide (on their back). Then have all the girls try to find the person who has the missing half of their picture. (They cannot look at their
\npicture before you pin the picture to their back). Each guide must ask other guides questions about their picture so that they can guess
\nwhat it looks like and find the missing half of their picture.<\/div>\n2 Truths & A Wish<\/h4>\nHave each person think of two of the wildest facts about themselves and one wild, but untrue fact, so three total facts to share
\nwith the group. It is up to the group to guess which fact is untrue.<\/div>\nMouse Trap<\/h4>\n
Best to play this game with 10-30 participants. (With 30 participants start with a bigger trap) 4 participants become the Mouse
\nTrap. They stand in a circle, facing in, holding hands with their arms extended and up high. The other children are “mice” and they
\nwalk in and out of the trap. One person facing away calls “spring the trap” and the guides of the trap bring down their arms catching
\n(hopefully) some of the mice inside. The caught mice become part of the trap. The game continues until only a few 4 of the mice
\nare left then they become the trap and the game begins again.<\/p>\n
Electricity<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: one coin and one small object for grabbing<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and then sit down facing your buddy. Everyone grabs the hand of the person next to them, not their buddy, so
\nthey can form a circuit. At one end of the line place an object. Have everyone close their eyes, except the two at the opposite
\nend from the object. Flip a coin, (so the two that has their eyes open can see) if the coin lands on heads the leader with eyes
\nopen starts a squeeze and the squeeze should continue down the line and the person at the end of the line will pick up the object
\nbefore the other team. If the coin lands on trails, the guides should freeze, not squeeze. See who can win the race!<\/div>\nSmiles<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: One coin<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and face each other. The two lines become the two teams. Assign each side a side of a coin. Flip the coin.
\nWhatever side it lands on that team must try to make the other team smile in thirty seconds. Whoever they get to smile must join
\nthat team. Continue until all players end up on one team.<\/div>\nFroggie Detective<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One is assigned to be the detective and the leaves the room. Everyone closes their eyes, and the leader
\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\nFollow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nhand of two different guides members (one in each hand). As soon as all of the hands have been connected the team begins to
\nuntangle the knot. Variation: Have 2 or more teams racing to see what team is the fastest.<\/div>\n
Interview<\/h4>\nEach guide finds a partner they have never met. During a three-minute period, they try to learn five things about each other by asking
\nand answering questions such as these: “where are you from?” “What is your interest in scouting?” “Do you have pets?”
\n“What is your name?” Each guide will present what they have learned about their new friend to the rest of the group.<\/div>\nScavenger Hunt<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nPencil or pen for each participant<\/div>\npre-printed scavenger hunt<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCreate a grid with squares about one inch in size. In each of the boxes put in a statement such as “find someone who has never
\nbeen camping,” or “find someone that has traveled to an OSG Moot or Hullaballoo” You can come up with any number of
\ncategories. Give everyone a copy of the scavenger hunt and give them a set time to find someone in the group that matches the
\ncategory and get their signature.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMissing Half<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nOne picture per two guides cut in half, tape or safety pin for each guide<\/div>\nTake a bunch of pictures from a magazine and cut them in half. Pin one half to one guide (on their back) and the other half to another
\nguide (on their back). Then have all the girls try to find the person who has the missing half of their picture. (They cannot look at their
\npicture before you pin the picture to their back). Each guide must ask other guides questions about their picture so that they can guess
\nwhat it looks like and find the missing half of their picture.<\/div>\n2 Truths & A Wish<\/h4>\nHave each person think of two of the wildest facts about themselves and one wild, but untrue fact, so three total facts to share
\nwith the group. It is up to the group to guess which fact is untrue.<\/div>\nMouse Trap<\/h4>\n
Best to play this game with 10-30 participants. (With 30 participants start with a bigger trap) 4 participants become the Mouse
\nTrap. They stand in a circle, facing in, holding hands with their arms extended and up high. The other children are “mice” and they
\nwalk in and out of the trap. One person facing away calls “spring the trap” and the guides of the trap bring down their arms catching
\n(hopefully) some of the mice inside. The caught mice become part of the trap. The game continues until only a few 4 of the mice
\nare left then they become the trap and the game begins again.<\/p>\n
Electricity<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: one coin and one small object for grabbing<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and then sit down facing your buddy. Everyone grabs the hand of the person next to them, not their buddy, so
\nthey can form a circuit. At one end of the line place an object. Have everyone close their eyes, except the two at the opposite
\nend from the object. Flip a coin, (so the two that has their eyes open can see) if the coin lands on heads the leader with eyes
\nopen starts a squeeze and the squeeze should continue down the line and the person at the end of the line will pick up the object
\nbefore the other team. If the coin lands on trails, the guides should freeze, not squeeze. See who can win the race!<\/div>\nSmiles<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: One coin<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and face each other. The two lines become the two teams. Assign each side a side of a coin. Flip the coin.
\nWhatever side it lands on that team must try to make the other team smile in thirty seconds. Whoever they get to smile must join
\nthat team. Continue until all players end up on one team.<\/div>\nFroggie Detective<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One is assigned to be the detective and the leaves the room. Everyone closes their eyes, and the leader
\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\nFollow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nand answering questions such as these: “where are you from?” “What is your interest in scouting?” “Do you have pets?”
\n“What is your name?” Each guide will present what they have learned about their new friend to the rest of the group.<\/div>\n
Scavenger Hunt<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nPencil or pen for each participant<\/div>\npre-printed scavenger hunt<\/div>\n<\/div>\nCreate a grid with squares about one inch in size. In each of the boxes put in a statement such as “find someone who has never
\nbeen camping,” or “find someone that has traveled to an OSG Moot or Hullaballoo” You can come up with any number of
\ncategories. Give everyone a copy of the scavenger hunt and give them a set time to find someone in the group that matches the
\ncategory and get their signature.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nMissing Half<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nOne picture per two guides cut in half, tape or safety pin for each guide<\/div>\nTake a bunch of pictures from a magazine and cut them in half. Pin one half to one guide (on their back) and the other half to another
\nguide (on their back). Then have all the girls try to find the person who has the missing half of their picture. (They cannot look at their
\npicture before you pin the picture to their back). Each guide must ask other guides questions about their picture so that they can guess
\nwhat it looks like and find the missing half of their picture.<\/div>\n2 Truths & A Wish<\/h4>\nHave each person think of two of the wildest facts about themselves and one wild, but untrue fact, so three total facts to share
\nwith the group. It is up to the group to guess which fact is untrue.<\/div>\nMouse Trap<\/h4>\n
Best to play this game with 10-30 participants. (With 30 participants start with a bigger trap) 4 participants become the Mouse
\nTrap. They stand in a circle, facing in, holding hands with their arms extended and up high. The other children are “mice” and they
\nwalk in and out of the trap. One person facing away calls “spring the trap” and the guides of the trap bring down their arms catching
\n(hopefully) some of the mice inside. The caught mice become part of the trap. The game continues until only a few 4 of the mice
\nare left then they become the trap and the game begins again.<\/p>\n
Electricity<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: one coin and one small object for grabbing<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and then sit down facing your buddy. Everyone grabs the hand of the person next to them, not their buddy, so
\nthey can form a circuit. At one end of the line place an object. Have everyone close their eyes, except the two at the opposite
\nend from the object. Flip a coin, (so the two that has their eyes open can see) if the coin lands on heads the leader with eyes
\nopen starts a squeeze and the squeeze should continue down the line and the person at the end of the line will pick up the object
\nbefore the other team. If the coin lands on trails, the guides should freeze, not squeeze. See who can win the race!<\/div>\nSmiles<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: One coin<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and face each other. The two lines become the two teams. Assign each side a side of a coin. Flip the coin.
\nWhatever side it lands on that team must try to make the other team smile in thirty seconds. Whoever they get to smile must join
\nthat team. Continue until all players end up on one team.<\/div>\nFroggie Detective<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One is assigned to be the detective and the leaves the room. Everyone closes their eyes, and the leader
\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\nFollow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nbeen camping,” or “find someone that has traveled to an OSG Moot or Hullaballoo” You can come up with any number of
\ncategories. Give everyone a copy of the scavenger hunt and give them a set time to find someone in the group that matches the
\ncategory and get their signature.<\/div>\n
Missing Half<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\nOne picture per two guides cut in half, tape or safety pin for each guide<\/div>\nTake a bunch of pictures from a magazine and cut them in half. Pin one half to one guide (on their back) and the other half to another
\nguide (on their back). Then have all the girls try to find the person who has the missing half of their picture. (They cannot look at their
\npicture before you pin the picture to their back). Each guide must ask other guides questions about their picture so that they can guess
\nwhat it looks like and find the missing half of their picture.<\/div>\n2 Truths & A Wish<\/h4>\nHave each person think of two of the wildest facts about themselves and one wild, but untrue fact, so three total facts to share
\nwith the group. It is up to the group to guess which fact is untrue.<\/div>\nMouse Trap<\/h4>\n
Best to play this game with 10-30 participants. (With 30 participants start with a bigger trap) 4 participants become the Mouse
\nTrap. They stand in a circle, facing in, holding hands with their arms extended and up high. The other children are “mice” and they
\nwalk in and out of the trap. One person facing away calls “spring the trap” and the guides of the trap bring down their arms catching
\n(hopefully) some of the mice inside. The caught mice become part of the trap. The game continues until only a few 4 of the mice
\nare left then they become the trap and the game begins again.<\/p>\n
Electricity<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: one coin and one small object for grabbing<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and then sit down facing your buddy. Everyone grabs the hand of the person next to them, not their buddy, so
\nthey can form a circuit. At one end of the line place an object. Have everyone close their eyes, except the two at the opposite
\nend from the object. Flip a coin, (so the two that has their eyes open can see) if the coin lands on heads the leader with eyes
\nopen starts a squeeze and the squeeze should continue down the line and the person at the end of the line will pick up the object
\nbefore the other team. If the coin lands on trails, the guides should freeze, not squeeze. See who can win the race!<\/div>\nSmiles<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: One coin<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and face each other. The two lines become the two teams. Assign each side a side of a coin. Flip the coin.
\nWhatever side it lands on that team must try to make the other team smile in thirty seconds. Whoever they get to smile must join
\nthat team. Continue until all players end up on one team.<\/div>\nFroggie Detective<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One is assigned to be the detective and the leaves the room. Everyone closes their eyes, and the leader
\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\nFollow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nguide (on their back). Then have all the girls try to find the person who has the missing half of their picture. (They cannot look at their
\npicture before you pin the picture to their back). Each guide must ask other guides questions about their picture so that they can guess
\nwhat it looks like and find the missing half of their picture.<\/div>\n
2 Truths & A Wish<\/h4>\nHave each person think of two of the wildest facts about themselves and one wild, but untrue fact, so three total facts to share
\nwith the group. It is up to the group to guess which fact is untrue.<\/div>\nMouse Trap<\/h4>\n
Best to play this game with 10-30 participants. (With 30 participants start with a bigger trap) 4 participants become the Mouse
\nTrap. They stand in a circle, facing in, holding hands with their arms extended and up high. The other children are “mice” and they
\nwalk in and out of the trap. One person facing away calls “spring the trap” and the guides of the trap bring down their arms catching
\n(hopefully) some of the mice inside. The caught mice become part of the trap. The game continues until only a few 4 of the mice
\nare left then they become the trap and the game begins again.<\/p>\n
Electricity<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: one coin and one small object for grabbing<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and then sit down facing your buddy. Everyone grabs the hand of the person next to them, not their buddy, so
\nthey can form a circuit. At one end of the line place an object. Have everyone close their eyes, except the two at the opposite
\nend from the object. Flip a coin, (so the two that has their eyes open can see) if the coin lands on heads the leader with eyes
\nopen starts a squeeze and the squeeze should continue down the line and the person at the end of the line will pick up the object
\nbefore the other team. If the coin lands on trails, the guides should freeze, not squeeze. See who can win the race!<\/div>\nSmiles<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: One coin<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and face each other. The two lines become the two teams. Assign each side a side of a coin. Flip the coin.
\nWhatever side it lands on that team must try to make the other team smile in thirty seconds. Whoever they get to smile must join
\nthat team. Continue until all players end up on one team.<\/div>\nFroggie Detective<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One is assigned to be the detective and the leaves the room. Everyone closes their eyes, and the leader
\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\nFollow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nwith the group. It is up to the group to guess which fact is untrue.<\/div>\n
Mouse Trap<\/h4>\n
Best to play this game with 10-30 participants. (With 30 participants start with a bigger trap) 4 participants become the Mouse
\nTrap. They stand in a circle, facing in, holding hands with their arms extended and up high. The other children are “mice” and they
\nwalk in and out of the trap. One person facing away calls “spring the trap” and the guides of the trap bring down their arms catching
\n(hopefully) some of the mice inside. The caught mice become part of the trap. The game continues until only a few 4 of the mice
\nare left then they become the trap and the game begins again.<\/p>\n
Electricity<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: one coin and one small object for grabbing<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and then sit down facing your buddy. Everyone grabs the hand of the person next to them, not their buddy, so
\nthey can form a circuit. At one end of the line place an object. Have everyone close their eyes, except the two at the opposite
\nend from the object. Flip a coin, (so the two that has their eyes open can see) if the coin lands on heads the leader with eyes
\nopen starts a squeeze and the squeeze should continue down the line and the person at the end of the line will pick up the object
\nbefore the other team. If the coin lands on trails, the guides should freeze, not squeeze. See who can win the race!<\/div>\nSmiles<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: One coin<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and face each other. The two lines become the two teams. Assign each side a side of a coin. Flip the coin.
\nWhatever side it lands on that team must try to make the other team smile in thirty seconds. Whoever they get to smile must join
\nthat team. Continue until all players end up on one team.<\/div>\nFroggie Detective<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One is assigned to be the detective and the leaves the room. Everyone closes their eyes, and the leader
\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\nFollow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nthey can form a circuit. At one end of the line place an object. Have everyone close their eyes, except the two at the opposite
\nend from the object. Flip a coin, (so the two that has their eyes open can see) if the coin lands on heads the leader with eyes
\nopen starts a squeeze and the squeeze should continue down the line and the person at the end of the line will pick up the object
\nbefore the other team. If the coin lands on trails, the guides should freeze, not squeeze. See who can win the race!<\/div>\n
Smiles<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: One coin<\/div>\nForm a buddy line and face each other. The two lines become the two teams. Assign each side a side of a coin. Flip the coin.
\nWhatever side it lands on that team must try to make the other team smile in thirty seconds. Whoever they get to smile must join
\nthat team. Continue until all players end up on one team.<\/div>\nFroggie Detective<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One is assigned to be the detective and the leaves the room. Everyone closes their eyes, and the leader
\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\nFollow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nWhatever side it lands on that team must try to make the other team smile in thirty seconds. Whoever they get to smile must join
\nthat team. Continue until all players end up on one team.<\/div>\n
Froggie Detective<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One is assigned to be the detective and the leaves the room. Everyone closes their eyes, and the leader
\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\nFollow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nchooses one frog. Everyone else is a fly. When the frog has been chosen the group opens their eyes and says “oh froggie
\ndetective” the detective then comes and stands inside the circle. The frog must stick her tongue out at the flies, which signals
\nthe fly’s to dramatically fall backwards. Flies count to 10 before sitting back up. The detective must continue to move around the
\ncircle and has 3 chances to guess who the frog is. The frog and detective switches places.<\/div>\n
Follow Who?<\/h4>\nEveryone sits in a circle. One person is picked to be the detective. The detective leaves the room, where they cannot see or hear
\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\nPass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nwhat is going on. One person is quietly chosen to be “IT” Everyone in the circle needs to be sure that they know who is “IT”, but
\nmust keep it a secret. “IT” starts an action and everyone in the circle copies it. The group calls the detective back in the room and
\nshe joins them by standing in the middle of the circle. The detective must move around and has 3 guesses as to who is “IT”. “IT”
\nmust change the action every few seconds with everyone else following the action. The group must be cautioned not to be too
\nobvious about watching the person who is “IT”.<\/div>\n
Pass A Hat<\/h4>\nThe players are in 2 circles: inner one and outer one. One player in each circle has a hat on his\/her head. The object is to pass the
\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\nFour Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nhat round the circle. But the players mustn’t use their hands while passing the hat from head to head. The team which passes the
\nhat round the circle the first wins the game.<\/div>\n
Four Corners<\/h4>\nMaterials needed: 4 random objects to mark the 4 corners of a square<\/div>\nOne person is “it”, and closes their eyes. The rest of the participants go to one of the four corners. The ‘it’ points to a corner, and
\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nOutside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nall the people in that corner sit down. Then the participants move to a new corner. The “it” person continues to eliminate people
\nuntil one is left. That person becomes “it” for the next round.<\/div>\n
Outside Games<\/h2>\nOver-the-Shoulder Bucket Brigade<\/h4>\nThis is an outside, warm weather game.<\/div>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n4 buckets the same size<\/div>\nA paper cup for each participant<\/div>\nBlind fold for each participant<\/div>\nParticipants are seated on the grass in a straight line with each person between the knees of the person behind. Each person
\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVariations: Have 2 teams racing each other. The team with the most water in the end bucket wins.
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\nEvolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nholds a paper cup. The first person fills their cup from a bucket of water and pours its contents over her shoulder into the cup of the
\nperson behind them, who, in turn, passes it on to the next person, and so on until whatever water remains at the end of the line is
\npoured into another bucket.<\/div>\n
\nThe game is made mush more interesting and challenging if all participants are blindfolded.<\/div>\n
Evolution aka Ultimate Person or Transformation<\/h4>\nThis is a “rock-paper-scissors” themed game.
\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\nNerdy human: act nervous, hike up shorts, etc.
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\nCaterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nHave the group in a circle. Everyone starts out as an egg by squatting down low and waddling like an egg. “Eggs” find another egg
\nand play a game of rock-paper-scissors. The winners turn into a chicken. Chickens move on to find other chickens, and eggs
\ncontinue to play against other eggs. Each time a player wins a r-p-s bout, they evolve into the next stage. Inevitably, one person
\nwill be left as the lone player in each stage of evolution until the end of the game as the winner of the final pair in each stage wins
\nand moves on.
\nThe game ends when all but the lone person in each stage evolve to the final stage.
\nThe “evolutions” and actions are:
\nEgg: squatting down low near ground
\nChicken: putting thumbs under armpits and flapping elbows
\nEagle: flapping arms by sides
\nPterodactyl-arms out at shoulder length and moving body back and forth as if soaring through the skies<\/div>\n
\n“Super cool” human or “Ultimate Person”: Strikes a relaxed, confident, “cool” pose off to the side of the group.<\/div>\n
Caterpillar<\/h4>\n1.Have the entire group lie on their stomachs, side by side with arms out stretched in front of them
\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\nClothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\n2. Person at the front of the line starts to roll over the others until they get to the end of the line
\n3. That person takes their place on their stomach at the end
\n4. Continue at the front with the next roller
\n5. Once this gets going, it will look like a caterpillar<\/div>\n
Clothespin Tag<\/h4>\nMaterials needed:<\/div>\n3 wooden clothespins per person<\/div>\n<\/div>\nPin 3 clothespins to the back of each guide’s shirt, in approximately the same place. Everyone is “it”! Each guide will run around and try
\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\nAmoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nto pull off the clothespins o of other guides without getting theirs taken. When they take them off, they will put them in a designated
\narea out of the way. Guides are not allowed to pin clothespins back on themselves or others. Once all her clothespins are gone, the guide
\nmust sit down. The winner is the person who is the last one with a clothespin left on their shirt.<\/div>\n
Amoeba Tag<\/h4>\nTwo people are it. They hold hands and chase people. Any person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another
\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\nCyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\nperson is caught they can stay together or spilt 2 and 2, but they must split even numbers and can link together at will. This game
\nis played until nobody is left<\/div>\n
Cyclopes Tag<\/h4>\nEveryone plays with one eye covered.<\/div>\nTV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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TV Tag<\/h4>\n
1. Pick a person to be “it”
\n2.”It” will count to ten while everyone else runs
\n3.When you see “It “coming you squat down and say your favorite show.
\n(Remember you can’t say a TV show twice. Or if someone else already said it.)
\nYou can only squat for 3 seconds. If you are “it” when someone squats you can’t stand there waiting for them to get up.<\/p>\n
Sock Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone takes off a sock and puts it in the back of their pants so that it looks like a tail. The object of the game is to steal other
\npeople’s socks without having yours taken. If your sock is taken, you must stand on the boundary and you can try to take other
\npeople’s socks if they come near you (you can only move your upper body). If you steal someone else’s sock and you still have
\nyour own, you can keep that sock in case your own is taken, then you can use your reserve sock as a backup and you’re still in the
\ngame. The winner is the last person who is left in the middle.<\/p>\n
Elbow Tag<\/h4>\n
Everyone gets a partner and links arms. Two people are chosen to split up. One will be it and the other will be chased. Whenever
\nthe person links with a pair of players, the person on the opposite end must break off. They will now become chased. If the person
\ngets tagged, they become it.<\/p>\n
Variation: When the person on the\u00a0opposite end breaks away, they become it and must chase the\u00a0person who was originally the chaser.<\/p>\n
Meltdown Tag<\/h4>\n
One person is “it”. If they tag anyone, that person must begin to “melt down” by lowering themselves to the ground slowly. If they
\nare touched by another player before they reach the ground they are free. If they melt all the way to the ground then they
\nbecome another “it”. Play continues until only one person is left.<\/p>\n
Werewolf Tag<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
One person is chosen to be the werewolf who is “it.” Each person who they tag also becomes a werewolf. Continue until only one person is not a werewolf.
\nThat person starts as “it” for the next round.<\/p>\n
Chuck the Chicken<\/h4>\n
Materials Needed:<\/p>\n
A rubber chicken or similar toy<\/p>\n
Divide the guides into two groups. One group has the chicken and must pass it over the head of one guide and through the legs of the next until it gets to the end of the line. When it gets to the end of the line, the last person must “chuck the chicken” and throw it away from the group. That person runs around their team to score points. Each full circle around their team earns a point. The first person from the other team must run and get the chicken as quickly as possible. They run back to their team and start the over under process at the start of the line. When the second team chucks the chicken, the first team has the guide who chucked the chicken run to get the chicken and \u00a0go to the front of their line to start passing it over under again. Play until all guides have chucked the chicken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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