It's A Knockout games
Pilot
the local youth groups (foolish I know). I have a few ideas for games but
need some more. So does anyone out there know any slightly crazy games that
can be played by mixed teams with ages ranging roughly from 8 to 15. We have
access to all the usual bits and pieces - ropes, balls, nets etc
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Martin Honor
GSL 1st Somerton
These views do not necessarily reflect those of the rest of my Group or
District
Amanda Kerr-Munslow
Age: 7&up depending on your judgement
Numbers: Can be played with any no of teams of moderate size (5-10).
Equipment: softish balls, bean bags, or water balloons, or a mixture
(plastic or dryable items if mixing with water balloons makes the best
game, played outside).
you need at least 5 (up to about 10) of these throwable items per player
(hence the mixutre as it is difficult to have loads of any but with a
mixture you have plenty).
Mark out a playing area. For 2 teams, this is half a square/oblong area
each, for 4 it is the 4 corners. For 3 or more than 4 teams, they get
"slices" of a circle.
Each team has a "backyard" to protect. Strewn over the backyard are the
throwing objects.
The team's objectives are to have as few "things" in their bakcyards as
possible at the end of the game. They get rid of them by throwing them
into the adjacent backyards of hte other teams (not diagonally or across
the circle centre)
They start on a whistle blow and must stop when the whistle blows again.
Let them throw for about 2 minutes.
The winning team is the one with the fewest items in their back yard
Some water balloons will smash and so the number of items left
decreases, this could make the points scoirng interesting but makes the
game more fun.
You sort out point scoring based on the other games etc.
Steve Spicer
Pilot wrote:
> I recently agreed to help organise an "It's A Knockout" type event for all
> the local youth groups (foolish I know). I have a few ideas for games but
> need some more. So does anyone out there know any slightly crazy games
that
> can be played by mixed teams with ages ranging roughly from 8 to 15. We
have
> access to all the usual bits and pieces - ropes, balls, nets etc
Favourites of ours:
1. Welly skiing (get 6 pairs of old, large wellington boots, cut them down,
and attach them to ski shaped planks, three pairs to each set of skis). Then
have a race.
2. Balloons and blindfolds (remote controlled cars, el cheapo ones from
jumble sales, with pins glued to front. Blindfold driver of said car. Make
barricaded area, and fill with balloons.Group shouts instructions to driver,
to pop balloons).
3. Gloves game (teams of whatever, up to 6 I guess. Each person wears a pair
of gloves, festooned with safety pins, glued on. Pass water balloons down
line to end).
Good luck!
Steve Spicer
Aspley Guise Scouts SL
http://www.aspleyguisescouts.org.uk/
David Stokes
serve.co.uk> writes
>I recently agreed to help organise an "It's A Knockout" type event for all
>the local youth groups (foolish I know). I have a few ideas for games but
>need some more. So does anyone out there know any slightly crazy games that
>can be played by mixed teams with ages ranging roughly from 8 to 15. We have
>access to all the usual bits and pieces - ropes, balls, nets etc
>
Have you tried looking at the Games pages on ScoutBase UK?
Over 200 ideas, including an index which allows you to check for
suitable age ranges and type of game.
All you have to do is check out the team games suitable for the Cub and
Scout age ranges.
They even give suggested playing times, suitable numbers, lists of
equipment and instructions/rules.
Oh yes - and you can download a copy for use off-line!
See http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/activity/games/
Dave Stokes
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Activities Editor - ScoutBase UK
activi...@scoutbase.org.uk
http://www.scoutbase.org.uk
Alastair Rainsbury
<amanda.ke...@brasenose.ox.ac.uk> writes
We play a variation on this game at regular meetings which involves less
equipment. You divide up your playing space as above, but instead of a
whole raft of objects you use one or two footballs (or other ball). The
teams throw the balls about until the whistle is goes, after which the
teams or teams with a football in their area loose a player. You then
carry on until the is only one team with a player left in. If the ball
goes into an empty area then it counts as being in the area of the last
team to touch it, so that they can't use the dead space to their
advantage. We also play at least two games of it so that you can swap
the order in which the players sit down. The first player to go out from
a team in the first game is the last to sit down in the second game.
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Alastair Rainsbury
A.C.L. 1st Marple Bradshaw Cub Scouts
1st Marple V.S.U.
Original GAPPster - http://surf.to/GAPP
Matthew
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>I recently agreed to help organise an "It's A Knockout" type event for all
>the local youth groups (foolish I know). I have a few ideas for games but
>need some more. So does anyone out there know any slightly crazy games that
>can be played by mixed teams with ages ranging roughly from 8 to 15.
Try a 'Milk Crate Relay' type of game.
2 teams, or timed.
6 team members, 5 crates (or other suitable off the ground support, e.g. 3
crates, 2 planks).
Move whole team from one end of course to the other without touching the
ground.
Also try 'Egg Toss' for the finale.
Equipment - 1 raw egg per team.
Teams (of 6, or 8, or 5, or...). Each team split into 2.
Lay out 2 long ropes (like a river and two banks).
The egg must be thrown from player to player within a team, crossing the
river with each throw.
If the egg breaks, the team is out.
Successful teams then find the river floods, and becomes wider (pick up the
ropes and move them apart!)
The winning team should be encouraged to break their raw egg on the referee!
Try a Martian Bridge
Tight rope , 15 feet long, about 12 inches above the ground - 3/4 inch rope
should be ok - (securely anchored by 3-2-1 pickets or similar) and supported
in low tripods at each end.
No hand rails!
Anchor another rope, for use as a steadying line, at the mid-point of the
main hawser and about 6 feet out from the side - just long enough to reach
each end when held.
The task is to walk along the main rope, using the hand line to steady
themselves - i.e. leaning back to keep the hand line taut.
Sounds easy - until you try it!
To make it more difficult, use shorter hand lines, but more of them, and
alternating sides - so that ropes must be picked up and put down along the
way.
Try a Tyre Carry - see which team can suspend the most LARGE tyres off the
ground, using a team member as the support (e.g. crucifix style, but
crouched down, tyres passed over head and over body to lay on knees; when
about chest height, hang tyres from arms. Set a time limit (90 seconds is
about right) and count the tyres at the end.
Try a Milk (beer?) Crate Stack
Only permitted to be ONE crate at the base. The challenge is to raise team
members high enough to place crates safely on top of the tower. Timed, or
can be counted at point of collapse of tower.
WARNING - wear hard hats, or ensure that the stack will topple away from the
players, judges and spectators!
Try the Water Tower -
2.5" drainpipe, vertically mounted on base (sealed at bottom to prevent
leakage). Drill strategic holes around the pipe - enough to be blocked by
nearly all of the team members, using fingers, toes, tongues(!).
Drop a floating object (e.g. table tennis ball) into the pipe. The challenge
is to fill the pipe such that the floating object can be removed. However...
The water source is at the other end of a course. Team members must collect
the water in cups which have also been drilled...
These games were successfully used at my local carnival, as a youth
competition (but primarily aimed at Scouts).
Good luck - let us know what happens!
--
Matthew
ASL 10th Feltham