Active games for large groups

Answer Race

1. Prepare four sheets of questions. Each sheet represents one suit (diamond, hearts, clubs, spades). On each sheet write a...

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Sprouts

This epic twist on dodgeball is best played with a fairly large group. It's great to use as an...

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The Ball Game

This may look like a regular game, but it's a prank in actuality. It should be performed in front...

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Raining Balloons

1. Blow up all the balloons bought and evenly distribute them into 2 different large garage bags (do this beforehand) 2. Divide...

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Chair of Doom

Have everyone hold hands in a ring around the chair. The object of the game is to be the...

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Human Stratego

How to play: 1. Divide the group into 2 teams. 2. Each team goes to the opposite end of the field where...

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Wave- Hide and seek

There is one person who is the seeker, the rest of the people are hiders. The seeker puts the...

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Matt Ball

The two bases are at opposite ends (much like the distance of a basketball court). Each base has one...

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Milk Jug Lacrosse

Each person has a milk jug. There are no boundaries set. Each team has a goal they are to...

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Giant Dutch Blitz

1. Each team puts 8 cards in a discard pile with the top card facing up. 2. That leaves 12 cards â€œin handâ€...

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Tug of War

Setup: - Make sure the rope is marked in the middle, and has two other marks 4 metres apart from...

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Bees Vs. Wasps

This is a fun run around church wide game I play with our middle-schoolers. The amount of nerf guns,...

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Monsters inc. (sully says)

Works very similar to Simon says or just as a fun way of keeping everyone warm without the sully...

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Action Netball

You get 2 chairs sitting on the opposite ends of the playing area. Then you separate your group into 2 teams....

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Five Tribes

Five tribes night game 5 teams of 2 cabins (about 20 kids each) each team has its own colour and home base...

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Sharky shark

Set the boundaries of the game, a straight channel as long as you decide and as wide as appropriate,...

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Cabbage

I made this game up as a child with my friends but played it with a tennis ball and...

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Golden Child

This is a great game for encouraging kids to learn the basic skills of basketball and netball. It is...

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Camoflauge

1. Pick a person to be it (Maybe a leader for the first round) 2. Everyone else hides in a large...

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Atlas Shrugged

1. Split your group into 2-4 teams. Each team has a Frisbee and an end zone. 2. They start in the...

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If I Were A Butterfly

This is the game version of the popular children's song "If I Were a Butterfly" and is a variation...

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Medic Dodgeball

To play this game you'll need to know the basic rules of dodgeball, so check them out here first....

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Octopus Tag

Octopus Tag can be played indoors or outdoors with any sized group and any aged kids. It's a very...

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Poisonous stump

Want your friends to fall into the poison zone? Then this is the perfect game for you! Get ready...

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Line Chasey

Line tag or line chasey ideally needs to be played in a gymnasium with multiple court lines (basketball, netball,...

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Easter Egg Hunt

Kids race to find hidden chocolate easter eggs!

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Glowstick Grab

teams compete to be the first to collect their glowsticks

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Number Clumps

Alliances are quickly formed and broken as kids scramble to clump together in groups of different numbers.

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Egg and Spoon Race

Spoon + egg + running = wobbly challenge

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Sack Racing

An age old game in the traditional family fun-day line-up

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Gold Rush

Two teams compete to get the "gold" back to their side of the field.

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Maze Runner

Runners try to escape the Grievers and the Maze

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Corner Spry Relay

Fast ball throwing action makes for a very competitive old-school relay

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Balloon Battle

An all vs all battle to keep balloons in air

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Chocolate Easter Egg Relay Race

Teams race while carrying small chocolate eggs on spoons

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Scatter Ball

All in Dodgeball.

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Tea Towel Dragons

1. Each player is to take a tag and hang it out of their pocket so it becomes like a...

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Simon Says "It's-a-Me, Mario!"

Simon Says for the LLM age

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