Archive for the '7-9 Years' Category

Mix and match as many of these that work for your situation:

Ride something
Wheel Barrel
Carry something
Go over, under, through something
Build something
Move something
Send something over under over under
Suck and Blow
Toothpick-Lifesaver
Pass the Apple
Egg on a spoon
3 Legged
5 man skiing
Piggy back

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Cup O’ Water

Material:
-1 large garbage cans
-8-10 tables
-1 pail for every team
-1 Styrofoam cup for every player
-optional something to mark a line on the pail (tape, marker, cut the pail, anything for make a line)

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On your third day of rain you get desperate for something to do. Here are a few general/desperate ideas that are beyond games to kill larger amounts of time:

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This is a way to have a quiet meal. You tell the campers that they get normal utensils for the meal. If they talk or make a noise they lose their small utensils in exchange for one out of the kitchen and they need to finish their meal with whatever they get (soup with a wisk is always fun to watch). If they make a second noise they lose everything and have to use their hands. If they talk again they lose their hands and they get tied behind their back and all they get is their mouth. Usually they do not make a fourth noise. If so, be creative.

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This is a great way to deal with the homesick campers. What you do is tell the campers that it is fine and normal to be homesick. The typical way of dealing with it is to get the campers involved in something. The campers get homesick when they can think about and remember their family so if you get their minds off of that, it usually works. However at bed time it is very hard to get them involved in something so you give them a homesick pill. This is a very special pill that has the power to take home sickness away. You give it to the camper and in minutes the crying will stop and they will go to sleep.

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