French Vs English
An active, team-building, wide, camp game
- Outdoors
- Multiple Teams
- Standard (15 - 45 mins)
- No cost
- Some Mess
- Active
- Team Building
- Wide
- Camp
- Simulation
- Large Groups
Added by
Joel
on
How To Play French Vs English
Materials Needed
20 or so items (balls or bowling pins etc)
First off I wanted to say that this is probably one of my all time favourite youth group games. It is one of those games that just involves burning off a lot of energy!
The basic idea is that there are two teams, and three dividing lines (ie. two halves of a playing field). Put an equal amount of the objects behind both baselines.
Each team needs to aim to steal as many of the objects as possible, without getting caught.
To steal an object the player must successfully make it to the other teams baseline without being tagged. Once they are there they can steal 1 object and release 1 captive team-mate (if there are any).
If the player is tagged while on the other teams half of the playing field, they are caught and must wait at the oppositions baseline until they are rescued.
Think that's pretty much it!
Themes
war
Variants
Added by
Joel
on 28 November 2007
20 Comments
Add a commentWe had two lines in the middle- “no- mans-land” @ also if a prisoner was tagged trying to get back , he became double-prisoner & could only be escorted back by a successful team- mate. We used blue flags on sticks for English & red for French.
phenomenal
Its handy to know that once a person crosses the end line, they have a free passage back to their half. The side with the most cones at the end wins.
sounds like fun and that it would get more players involved than capture the flag. thanks for posting
It’s great but I don’t like it because it was just too hard.
I found that this game is great for getting everyone involved. Capture the flag has always been a favorite, but it seemed like it was always the same people actually capturing the flag usually the very athletic older teens. With this game it seemed to allow everyone to get much more involved. The athletic teens would draw the attention of most of the opposing team and the younger slightly less athletic teens would kind of miander over unnoticed and steal an object. I always ask for feedback after a game and it seemed that it was all positive for this game.
Please enlighten me as I still don't know how to play this game...how can the players be tagged? and when?
Will definitely be playing this game with a few variations.
I used to play this as a kid in camp such a fun game!
Do you have a sample video for this
do players go one at a time?
This is THE game at Camp We call it "Mugs" Been a camp favorite for decades.
I find the comments from actual teens or leaders that have played these games the most helpful! Thanks to those that comment.
My youth group loved it
This is a fun game for youth
Sweet game! I'm definitely trying this one with my youth group tonight
cool, this is kind of like capture the flag and stuck in the mud in one game but you don't have a flag and you stay stuck with the opposing team until you get tagged like stuck in the mud...
stupid
We do this all the time with cups, and we call it 'the cup game'.
pretty interesting!