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Look Up - Look Down

For this simple and interesting game, the players should be in even number and one facilitator should be appointed. Ask all the players to stand in a circle with their heads-down. The facilitator will instruct the group to either "look-up" or "look-down" as per his or her choice. When the facilitator yells "look-up", the participants have to look at each other's and once they look at somebody, they have to become still (the players cannot change their direction of sight until the next instruction). If they look into each other's eyes that is, maintain eye contact, then they have to shout at the top of their voice and the one who shouts last will be out of the game. Repeat this until only two players are left. To decide a winner among the remaining two players, a tug of war can be organized.

Hail Storm

Age Group: 9-12 years

Game Objective: A typical summer camp game for kids that would make kids go crazy and a little drenched.

Game Learning: Catching

No. of Players: At least 12 kids. More the better!

Materials Required:

• Lots of white sponge balls.
• Some empty juice bottles and soda cans.
• A big bucket full of water.
• A red marking tape.
• A clothesline.
• Some full sized bed sheets.
• Some clothe clips.

How to Play:

• Tie the clothesline between two trees at a reasonable height, say 6 feet.
• Create a temporary wall by hanging the bed sheets on the clothesline side by side.
• The wall width should be at least 15 to 18 feet.
• The bed sheets should touch the ground level completely.
• Use clothe clips to hold the sheets together and seal any visible gaps.
• On one side of the wall, make a square considering the wall as one of its sides i.e. if the virtual wall is 18 feet wide then, the square will be of 18 x 18 feet.
• On the other side of the wall make a semi circle taking the wall as its diameter.
• Mark them with the marker tape.
• Appoint an adult scorekeeper.
• Make two teams and let them take their sides opposite to each other.
• Both the teams should not be visible to each other and must stay within their boundaries.
• Give a large bucket full of water with lots of soaked sponge balls in it to the side standing on the semi circle side of the wall.
• Also give some other items like empty soda cans and plastic juice bottles to the same team.
• The game starts with the score keeper yelling “Hail Storm!”
• The kids on the semi circle side will start tossing the sponge balls and other stuff over the other side of the wall, one by one or simultaneously.
• The kids on the other side of the wall (square side) must run around within the square to catch all the showering items.
• The kids catching the sponge balls etc must stuff them in their pockets or inside their shirts. Any fallen item cannot be picked up again.
• The sponge balls that have fallen outside the square boundary cannot be touched.
• This will continue till all the items have been exhausted by the throwing team.
• The score keeper will total the score. Every item caught will add one point, every item dropped within the square boundary will deduct one point and any item landed outside the boundary will give two bonus points to the catching team.
• Teams will change sides and other side will now get the chance to do the catching and accumulate points.
• Once both the side’s turn is over, score keeper will tally the scores and the side with more points WINS this cool kids camp game!

My Tip :

• This kids camp game can also be played as a fun water game between neighbors on a hot sunny day. If you have a common wall that’s good, otherwise, use the same technique to make your own virtual wall and get going… Get drenched with kids and beat the heat!

Tom & Jerry

Age Group: 4-12 years

Game Objective: A entertaining kids camp game that makes them learn how animals hunt for their food daily.

Game Learning: Patience, alertness and persistence.

No. of Players: 10 or more

Materials Required:

• Some juice bottles.
• Some blindfolds.

How to Play:

• Make two teams.
• One team is called “Tom” and other is called “Jerry”.
• Make a circle large enough such that all the players can freely accommodate in that.
• Blindfold the team Tom and make them stand in a scattered pattern in the circle.
• The legs of Tom should be wide open such that a bottle of juice can easily be placed between them.
• Tom must stand stationary and cannot move their legs.
• Now, team Jerry will quietly enter the circle and their objective is to steal all the juice bottles from team Tom without alerting them.
• While doing so if Tom suspects that Jerry is close by and trying to steal the bottle, he will point exactly in the same direction and shout “Jerry” to tag him.
• If Tom is correct then Jerry is “Out”.
• Tom will get 2 chances to call correctly and if he is incorrect in his 3rd call he will be Out and that juice bottle will be given to the nearest Jerry.
• Tom can also move his hand around standing at his place in order to tag Jerry.
• If team Jerry is successful in stealing all the juice bottles…they WIN!
• If team Tom is successful is tagging all the Jerrys before that…they WIN this amazing kids camp game.

”Chase The Pony”

Age Group: 4 to 12 years

Game Objective: A kids camp game in which players have to stalk silently.

Game Learning: Observation and timing the moves.

No. of Players: 10 or more.

Materials Required:

• A whistle.
• A bushy and woody play area

How to Play:

• Appoint a “Pony” among the kids.
• Fix the game time to 15 minutes.
• Give Pony a whistle and a watch and make him count to 100 with closed eyes standing at the centre of the play area.
• Rest of the kids, who are Stalkers, will hide themselves behind the bushes and trees in the meantime.
• After counting to 100 the Pony will slowly start roaming around in the play area.
• Other kids will smartly try to come closer to him without coming into his notice.
• If the Pony sees a stalker and calls out his name, then that player must get Frozen at that very point and cannot move further after that.
• This will continue and the stalkers will try to come closer and closer to the Pony.
• Pony will blow the whistle when the time is over and all the stalkers must stand still after that.
• The stalker closest to the Pony WINS!!!

My Tip :

• This simple yet interesting kids camp game allows the kids to mingle with the nature and fill their lungs with fresh & clean air.

Hunters & Stalkers

Age Group: 8-12 years

Game Objective: In this wonderful kids camp games the teams have to accomplish a task before their opponents.

Game Learning: Observation, coordination and speed.

No. of Players: 10 or more.

Materials Required:

• Blue & green flags, 2 each.
• 2 small flashlights.
• A piece of chalk.

How to Play:

• Before the game starts, hide a “Green Flag” at a fair distance from the camp and a “Blue Flag” in the close proximity to the green flag.
• The flags can either be hung on a tree or hidden in the bushes.
• Make 2 outline maps. “Green Map” indicating the location of the green flag from the camp base and “Blue Map” indicating the location of the blue flag from the point of location of green flag.
• Make 2 teams and name them “Green Hunters” and “Blue Stalkers”.
• Give a Green Flag, a piece of chalk, a flashlight and the Green Map to Green Hunters.
• Give a Blue Flag, a flashlight and the Blue Map to Blue Stalkers.
• Let the Green Hunters leave for the flag hunt at least a couple of minutes before the Blue Stalkers.
• The Blue Stalkers, till that time, will wait inside a tent. So that they cannot see in which direction the Green Hunters have left.
• Green hunters have to make the directional arrows with the chalk on the trees and rocks for Blue stalkers to follow.
• Blue Hunters, when their time starts, will have to figure out quickly where the Green Hunters have gone by following the directional arrows marked by them.
• Both will carry their respective maps with them to reach their target. But Blue Stalkers have no choice except to stalk the Green Hunters till they find their green flag and from that point they can trace their Blue Flag as indicated in the map.
• The teams after finding their flags have to first, plant the other flag they brought with them on the ground and then rush back to the camp base with the prize flag.
• The first team (the flag bearer) to return to the camp base is the Winner!!!

My Tip :

• Play this game in the evening just before dusk. The fun will begin when the teams may want to use their flashlights to read the maps or read the directional arrows but avoiding it so that the opposition may not come to know their location by following the light.

Memory Jogger

Age Group: 5-12 years

Game Objective: In this kids camp game kids have to exercise their memory power.

Game Learning: Memory and observation

No. of Players: A group of 10 kids.

Materials Required:

• 10 different items like – leaves, rocks, acorns, tree bark, flowers, sticks, seedpods, shells, mushrooms, shrubs etc.
• 2 bandanas or handkerchiefs.

How to Play:

• Spread all the 10 items distinctly on a bandana and cover them with another one.
• Call all the kids and remove the cover bandana for 10 seconds.
• Let the kids observe the items.
• Put the cover back and ask the kids to write down the name of as many items as they can recall.
• Allocate 1 point for each correct item and if a child has enlisted an item that no one has written then award 2 points for it.
• Tally the scores and the kid with maximum correct answers WINS this kids camp game!

My Tip :

• A very good kids summer camp game through which kids will come close to nature. It also jogs the memory power and observation skills of the kids.

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Egg Carton Animals

Description

CATERPILLAR Separate 4, 5, or 6 cups from an egg carton. Using the point of a scissors, an adult should make 2 small holes at one end for the antennae. Insert pipe cleaners for the antennae. Add eyes, a mouth, and decorate. LADYBUG Separate one cup from an egg carton. Using markers or tempera paint, children can paint the egg carton cup red. Then, using black paint, color in the head, and make spots on the body. Using the point of a scissors, an adult should make 6 small holes (3 on each side) at the base of the cup (these will be for the legs. Make 2 small holes (for antennae) where the top of the head will be. Insert a black pipe cleaner into each a side hole and out the other side for the legs. Use half a pipe cleaner for the antennae. Glue on googly eyes or paint on white eyes. SPIDER Separate one cup from an egg carton. Using the point of a scissors, an adult should make 8 small holes (4 on each side) at the base of the cup. Insert a pipe cleaner into each of the holes 

Soccer Baskeball

Description

Divide the group into two teams. Each team starts off with 6 players. One player on each team acts as a goalie under the basketball rim. 

The goal is for each team to pass the ball around and get to the rim and score without the other team stealing the ball. If the ball is droped then you must kick the ball into the designated area passed the goalie. Shots are worth 1 or 2 points and goals are worth 7 points. You can substitute your players in and out as much as you want. (Camp counselors are to act as coaches.) Basketball rules apply while ball is in the air, and soccer rules apply while ball is on the floor. 

Balloon Foosball

Seated teams try and hit a balloon over the opposing team into the goal

Materials

2 Balloons, chairs

How To Play

Arrange chairs in multiple pairs of rows with each pair having the seats back-to-back. Each row should be roughly 6 chairs long. Have players sit in the chair.
The chairs represent two teams - the direction the chair is facing signifies what team that student is on. 

The facilitator drops two balloons in. Players may not stand but must try and hit the balloon over the opposing team to the next row. If a team hits the balloon over the last line of defenders, it counts as a goal. 

Typically the game has multiple goals and tends to work well if gameplay does not stop between goals.

ABC Basketball

This game should be played by a basketball hoop. Children sit in a large circle and pass the basketball around the circle (like hot potato) while singing the alphabet.  Whoever has the ball when the group gets to the letter Z must go to the basket and try to make a shot.  If player makes the shot, he/she takes their seat in the circle. If they miss it, they are out of the game. 

Compass Name Game

1. Have participants stand in a circle.
2. One volunteer stands in the middle of the circle and starts the game as the "caller."
3. The caller points at a member of the circle and says one of the following: You, Me, Left, or Right.
4. Based on which direction the caller says, the person being pointed at must correctly name that person. "You" is the name of the person being pointed at. "Me" is the caller. "Left" or "Right" are the people on the person on the circle's left or right side.
5. Once the caller points and says the direction, he/she must count to five aloud. The person must correctly identify the name before the caller reaches five.
6. If the person in the circle incorrectly identifies the name, or doesn't speak in time, that person becomes the new caller in the middle of the circle.
7. If the person correctly identifies the name, the caller must move onto a new person of their choice.