BALLS, BEANBAGS, AND RELAYS
Sometimes you just need to do something with a prop, or compete with each other.
These are games that have been contributed by Guiders and
Scouters. Many of them have come from the Guiding/Scouting List
and the WAGGGS-L list. If you have a game you would like to add
to this page please submit it to me by e-mail.
Margaret (South Africa)
CROSSOVER BEANBAGS
CATEGORY: Indoor/ Outdoor
After round one the formation should be
A has all 3 beanbags.
H then throws beanbag 1,2 and 3 to A, who passes it to B etc.
G, who is at the end, collects them and runs to the throwers
position (originally A). All the others crossover. This
continues until A is at the end and collects all 3 beanbags and
she runs to the Guider who should stand between the 2 teams.
HINT: If a girl drops beanbag 1 or 2 she should leave it until
she has passed on beanbag 3 This game can be played with tennis
balls BUT when dropped, they can travel a long way!
Sandra O'Keeffe
The girls within the line are also spread far apart.
She fills up the bag and is now the Cloud....(the previous first
girl is now the Mountain) get the picture? The girls have to
listen to the directions as they will have to remember 'what'
they are (or have become) and the action for it. They will get
lots of encouragement and cheering from their team! The relay
continues until the first girl or cloud is the ocean and waves
her way down to the bucket.
You all get a bit wet...the Waves have a great time! (Actually
EVERYBODY does!) It's an amusing hands on way to understand the
water cycle. Have Fun!
Margaret A. B. Jones
Its a relay game. Divide group into even teams (about 5 kids per
team but its flexible). Give the first person on each team a
set of snowshoes (2 pieces of paper). They put the snowshoes on
the ground and stand on them. On "GO" they shuffle to the other
end of the area, around the thing and back to the team. If a
snowshoe is lost then they have to shuffle back to it and if it
becomes ripped they have to go to the "store" - one leader has
extra snowshoes and is standing relatively equal distance from
each team,- and they must start their turn again. The winner
is the team who finishes first with snowshoes in "good" shape
(i.e. no rips or tears or only small ones). It should be noted
that sock feet don't work very well with this game.
Kristen Byrnes
Divide the girls into two even teams. Divide the playing space
in half, with a clearly defined center line. Set the pins up at
opposite ends of the playing area in a triangle, with two pins
forward and one pin back. Each team gets two balls. On the
word "go" the teams try to knock down the opposing team's pins
over, while protecting their own. They are not allowed to cross
the center line or stand directly in front of their own pins
(although this tends to lead to them tripping over the pin, thus
knocking it over). If they knock their own pin over, it counts.
Game ends when one team's pins are all down.
This game ran remarkably smoothly for about twenty minutes, no
arguments or problems, until a parent arrived and took away half
the players. It does work best in a fairly large area, to avoid
collisions.
Margaret Fraser
To make it easier for younger kids, you could play this game
after an activity about animals, so they have more ideas. Also,
decide beforehand what type of things fit in the categories --
you can include insects as beasts, and aquatic creatures
(shellfish, etc.) as fish to give you a wider range from which
to choose.
Marianne Mitchell
Barb Garber
Barb Garber
Barb Garber
Barb Garber
Balance the ball on the top of the bottle. Have the first two
contestants stand facing each other with the bottle in between
(have the bottle on a stool, rock or fence to make it high
enough for every one to stand up!), and about 5 paces away from
the bottle.(This will depend on the pressure in your water pistol, and the weight of the ball and the mouth of the bottle, I recommend that you give this a try and set up your distances before hand!) I recommend those supersoaker water guns because each turn will take a little longer to do, as the kids can pump them up first, then fire. Some one counts, ready, aim, fire! and the two contestants shoot the ball off of the bottle.
Jane Maddin
One basin (each of them filled with the same amount of water)
per team is placed at the back of the team and the other basin
(empty and with a mark on it on the same spot in each one - if
the basins are not all the same shape, then mark the level of
four cups of water in each with a marker, or tape) is placed a
certain distance away from the team (about 20 feet).
The girl at the back of the team has the teams baggie. She
fills the baggie with water, and hands it over the top of the
girl in front of her, who turns and hands it through her legs to
the next person who hands it over the next person who hands it
under to the next. (Make sense? I hope). The person at the
other end of the team runs up to the empty basin and dumps the
contents of her baggie in there. Then she runs to the back of
her team and fills the baggie and the game continues.
The first team to each the mark, wins the relay. (Variations:
Do this with only one hand, including emptying and filling the
baggies! Make holes in all the baggies with the optional fork,
and then everyone gets a little wet as the bag goes over and
under, then do the holey baggie with one hand too.)
Jane Maddin
Jane Maddin
The girls get a kick out of this game!
Laura Churchill
Put a hula hoop or loop of rope in each corner of your play area.
Put equal numbers of bean bags in each hula hoop. Divide the
kids into teams of 5 or 6, each team stands by 'their' hula hoop.
This is their yard! Yell Go! Each group has to empty their hula
hoop by carrying the bean bags one per trip to another team's
yard. The bean bags have to be put into the other team's yard -
tossing is acceptable if the bean bag lands in the hoop, if not
they have to retrieve it and put it in. Watch out for the other
team members so that you do not bump into each other. Count the
number of bean bags in each hoop at the end of the game (10
minutes) and the team with the fewest bean bags (the least
garbage) wins.
This is a super game and if you don't feel that throwing your
garbage into another team's yard is politically correct, rename
everything. I can't think of a different name at this point of
typing, but that shouldn't be a problem. (As I was typing the
rules I thought that perhaps ecology minded guiders shouldn't be
encouraging this litter-bug behavior! Perhaps just Get Rid of the
Bean Bags would be better!)
Jane Maddin
Bonnie Curtis
HOW TO PLAY:
Winning team - first to finish
VARIATIONS: The same rules can be applied to the following
games:
BOOK ON THE HEAD - use 1 book per team. All books should
be the same or very similar.
BEANBAG ON THE FOOT - place beanbag on foot and keep it
there while walking.
BALLOON BETWEEN THE KNEES - have some spare balloons,
just in case!
Sandra O'Keeffe
You are the #
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BASIC RULE: Girls may stand with one foot on the X, but the other foot must be beside or behind it - not in front
HOW TO PLAY: The game starts with the girls in the following formation
Bx Dx Fx Hx Ax Cx Ex Gx
Ax Cx Ex Gx Hx Bx Dx Fx
A throws beanbag 1 to B, who throws it to C, who throws it to D, who throws it to E…..etc.
In the meantime A throws beanbag 2 to B, who throws it to C…….etc.
Then A throws beanbag 3 to B, who throws it to C……..etc.
H collects all 3 beanbags and runs behind F, D and B and up to position A.
All the others crossover
WATER CYCLE RELAY GAME
THE GREAT CANADIAN SNOWSHOE RACE
Equipment - one thing to go around for each team, newspaper
sheets ripped into quarters (about 40cmx60cm?) (one pair for
each team plus a few extras)
KINGPIN
Number of players : as many as want to play.
BEAST, BIRD OR FISH
PEBBLE COLLECTION RELAY
JUMP ROPE RELAY
BALL RELAY
BALL LOSE-ALL
QUICK DRAW
Age: 5 and up
Number of children: Can be done in two teams or individually,
with two people playing at once and the rest of the kids cheering.
Category: Outdoor
Scoring: The team who shoots the ball off, wins a point.
Highest points win the contest.
WATER RELAY
Age: 5 and up
Number of kids: Teams of 4-6 girls
Category: Outdoor
SPONGE RELAY
Number: teams of 4-6
Ages: 5 and up
Category: Outdoors
A full basin is placed in front of the team and the empty one is
positioned 20 paces away. One at a time the girls soak their
sponge in the full basin and run up to the empty one and squeeze
it out. Then they run back and hand (toss) the sponge to the
next person in line. You can do this until the water level in
the far basin reaches a certain point, or until the closest
basin is empty, or until everyone on the team has had a turn,
and then measure the water in the far basins to see who has
moved the most water over. (Variation: Do this one handed.)
CINDERELLA
DON’T THROW YOUR GARBAGE IN YOUR NEIGHBOUR’S
YARD
We put 4 chairs at one end of the hall and 4 lines of parents and
girls at other end of hall. One of the Guiders had brought
balloons blown up. The first girl or parent had to run up get a
balloon and sit on the balloon on the chair until it busted,
then they ran back until the whole group finished. Another time
we had them run up blow up the balloon, then sit on until they
busted it. We had great time laughing. As at Guide ages and
parents, we all come in all shapes and sizes and to see the
balloon fly from behind a small girl every time she sat on it
(of course we helped with the busting, she did not know it),
then to see a large person sit on the balloon it bust right away.
Great time, all in fun.
BALL BETWEEN THE FEET
EQUIPMENT:
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: Any number but even teams
Each team lines up behind a chair. The other chair is placed some
distance away. On a given signal the first member of each team
takes the ball and places it between her feet. She jumps, with
the ball between her feet, from the first chair, around the far
chair and back to her team. Then the next person on the team
does the same. BUT if the ball is dropped / lost between the
first chair and the second chair the girl must return to the
first chair and start again. If the ball is dropped between the
second chair and the first chair i.e. on the way back, the girl
must return to the second chair.
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