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Rainy Day Activities
Air Pong
Description
Form two teams each at opposite ends of a table with hands held behind their backs. A ping pong ball is placed in the middle and the teams will try to blow the ball off of the other teams side of the table. If the ball falls off the side of the table it gets placed back in the middle and play resumes.
Alphabet Actors
Divide players into groups of three or four.
The leader then calls out a letter, and the groups must then form that letter using their bodies.
The groups can decide if they want to build the letters standing or laying on the group.
You can have the different groups spell out words as well.
Bag-O-Stuff Improv Skit
This is a rainy day or all camp activity.
Divide the whole camp into groups of 8 or 10 campers (each with a counselor or two to supervise). Have the campers or leaders go all over camp collecting items in a bag... from their tents, the arts and crafts area, the camp kitchen, just random stuff... Give each group their own bag full of stuff. Give them a half hour to come up with a skit using all of the items (note:the items should not be used for their actual purpose).
Then take turns presenting your prepared skit to the other groups.
Dead Horse
Description
Somebody lays down and closes their eyes, while everyone else gathers around them. The one lying down must keep their eyes closed while the others try to make them laugh without touching them. When the person laughs, they loose and it's another persons turn to lie down and be the dead horse.
Telephone Message Game
This game is intended for a large group of kids and/or adults, the more the better.
The group sits in a large circle. One person starts the game by whispering a short message into the ear of the person sitter to the right of them. The message is whispered once, then the new messenger passes the message on to the next person, so on and so on.
When the message reaches the person to the left of the person that started the game final the message is announced out loud and the first person can announce the original message.
Village Chief
Everyone sits in a circle, and one person leaves, then one person is selected to be the ‘Village Chief’ or the ‘It’. Everyone else in the circle has to follow the movements that the “Chief” does ie-clapping, snapping, banging the ground. The person who stepped out of the circle then comes back and tries to see who’s movements everyone is following, and guess who the “chief” is.
Zip Zip Zonk
Sit your group in a circle. The 1st person starts by saying the word "zip". One person says it after another around the circle... zip, zip ,zip, zip etc.
Now tell the players that the aim is for no one to be able to see their teeth. They must cover them with their lips at all times. (pull them over your teeth as you would if you were rubbing in lipstick. Now go around the circle again saying zip. (It sounds more like zaip now!!)
Ok then explain to the players that they can change the direction that zip is going by saying zonk which makes it bounce around again the other way. A person is caught out if any player sees another's teeth. The accuser must show this by shouting teeth teeth, bending their arm up so their hand touches their shoulder and slapping their elbow. AT ALL TIMES TEETH MUST BE COVERED. People who are caught out must sit out of the circle.
When only 3 or 4 people are left have them stick out their tongues while keeping their teeth hidden. Keep playing the game. Eventually you should get a winner.
You Can Do It Like This
Description
Similar to Scissors or Crossed Uncrossed except any object can be used.
The people in the know take an object and position it three different ways while saying "You can do it like this and you can do it like this, but you can't do it like this." Then the object is passed to the next person to try while the people in the know say "correct" or "incorrect."
The secret is is to start your phrase with the word "Ok." So the correct way to do it is to state "Ok, you can do it like this and you can do it like this, but you can't do it like this."
It's funny to watch the kids over emphasize the word "ok" and see the other kids still not get it since "ok" is such a commonly used word.
Wink Elimination
This game is best played in a large group. Sit all of the children in a circle, and have them all put their heads down. Tap one person on the head, this person is the ‘assassin’ and has to eliminate the others by winking at them. If you are winked at, silently count to 10, then safely fall down. If you think you know who the ‘assassin’ is, before you get eliminated, you can say you have a suspect. If you are wrong, you are out. If not, you win and the game begins again.
Have You Ever? or Postman
Description
Everyone stands or sits in a circle in front of a place marker, such as a bookbag, chair, or other objects. The one person without a chair or a place marker is "it".
The "it" will say something about themselves. For example, "Have you ever gone swimming in the Atlantic Ocean?"
Anyone in the circle that has that in common must move to a new spot in the circle. Each move has to be at least two place markers or chairs from where they started.
Whoever is left without a place marker will be it and will tell something about themselves.
Resources:
Ultimate Camp Resources
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