Call for Games:
One of my favorite activities inside and outside of 4-H is games. Just last evening I shared a new one I learned back home in Lewis County with my Morgantown friends.
I know that every 4-Her, church camp go-er, etc, has a favorite. Since the Camping Team is working on a revision of the Game Leader’s Handbook- this is your chance to contribute to their chronicles. Please leave comments (echoes) of a game’s name, instructions, and source- if you know it. Here’s the one we played last night.
This one works best when you have 6 or more people playing that know each other pretty well.
- Everyone has a slip of paper and writes any celebrities name on it.
- Fold once and put into pile.
- The Reader usually doesn’t play in case they can tell whose handwriting is whose.
- The Reader calls all the celebrities names aloud.
- The first player makes a guess as to who another player wrote down.
- If the guess is correct, that player joins the first player’s team to share information and strategy.
- A correct guess merits a second turn of that team.
- An incorrect guess begins the turn of the second player.
- Should the second player guess the celebrity of the first player, that whole team is now his or hers.
- Play until all names are revealed.
- The position of Reader changes.
- Repeat.
To make it more fun you substitute common friends for celebrities. I learned this game right after my first high school reunion about 2 weeks ago and we used people we went to school with. It was uproarious! Last night we used everyone in the 4-H world – a very good time indeed. It’s fun to change the rules around to make it more difficult as you go.
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This one’s my favorite icebreaker. Get a plastic ball at Wal-Mart (or wherever) and write questions all over it. They can be almost anything. Would you rather eat a frozen pickle or hot ice cream, basketball or football, if you could be an animal what would you be and why, etc. Have everyone get in a circle and then you just toss the ball around the group until you’re satisfied or you run out of time. Good luck with the book!
Claire-
I have three handouts listing games and one handout on how to play games with youth (tips on organizing games, etc) from when I was a county educator- Send me the email of where to send them- and I’ll send them all as attachments.
p.s. We use Tandy’s suggestion for a game at Conference every year- only we use inflatable beach balls as the ball and write the questions on with a sharpie.
Yeah, sometimes we use beach balls too.
And Oklahoma 4-H has a directory of games and activities to use with each age group. It also shows how each activity uses and develops life skills. I’ll send it to you if you want it.
I actually learned this at HOBY, but it’s good for any group. Make a circle out of chairs, one chair for each person, with one person left over. That person gets in the middle of the circle, says, “I love all my HOBY/4-H/group friends who love chocolate”, or whatever you want to say. If it applies to you, jump up and grab someone else’s (empty) seat. Whoever is left standing without a chair is the new It.
Volunteers to test all the games!
Brent and I will work on a list and directions, since he used to be king of recreation. We’ll send them to Don and Craig, so you won’t get bogged down.
ok umm slpish splish splash is just like duck duck goose except with sponges lol! you walk around the circle driping the sponge on everyones head and when you pick who the goose is you squeeze the whole sponge on their head and they have to try and catch you and if they do they get to splash a whole sponge on top of your head. bear ninja cowboy is like rock paper scicorrs and is really hard to explain usless in person lol! and every body knows have you ever i have never…and i know bunch others so if your having problems finding more games you know where i am =)
Our old standby is Over/Under. Pick teams and stand in rows. The first person passes a ball over his/her head to the next person. This person passes a ball under (between) his/her legs to the next person, and so on. You can also make this into a water game by using wet sponges. :o)
Yes and No
At the beginning of a meeting or event give each person 3 or 4 beans or other small objects. Explain to each (or include a slip of paper with the explanation)that their objective is to get another person to say the words “Yes” or “No” and amass as many beans as possible. If person #1 succeeds in getting person
#2 to say “Yes” or “No” then #2 must give #1 a bean. At the end of the meeting or the prescribed time for playing the person with the most beans wins. No one is ever really “Out” since they can keep chatting with others and if they are lucky, or crafty, they can get beans from someone. If a person says “Yes” or “No” and doesn’t have any beans there is no penalty and the questioner doesn’t gain anything. Some groups extend the rules to include shaking your head, saying things like “Nope”, etc. This is up to the players.
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