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GAMES
AUSTRALIAN CIRCLE GAME
A player stands in the
centre of a circle, holding a tennis ball. She tries to throw this ball to someone in the
circle who will drop it. Another ball is also being passed around the circle from one girl
to another.
The player in the centre may throw her ball to anyone, but she usually throws it to the
girl about to receive the ball being passed around the circle. If either ball is dropped,
the one who dropped it changes places with the girl in the centre.
BALLOON
SANDWICH
Girls
pair off, each pair gets a
balloon. They must stand back to back with the
balloon sandwiched between them & get from one end of
the room to the other like that! Any pair who drop
their balloon must go right back to the start. It’s
easier if the girls are of similar height.
BEAM
UP
Put
tables and chairs across the floor in a way that the guides can hide behind them.
The guides line up along the back wall of the meeting place and get onto their hands and
knees. Somebody else stands on the opposite wall with a torch. The lights are turned off
and the person with the torch moves a beam of light slowly around the wall they are
standing by. The idea is that the guides have to get to the wall behind the person with
the torch, without getting caught by the beam. They use the chairs and tables to hide
themselves from the beam.
CABLE CARS
Equipment
2 teams of guides (to act as the cables -large numbers in the teams are more fun)
2 boxes or trays (to act as the cable car)
2 Teddies or similar (to act as the passenger)
Line the teams up parallel to each other along the length of the hall - as
if they were the 2 cables (but imagine you are up a mountain) .
Put a cable car and passenger at the end of each cable - 1 at the 'top' of
the 'mountain' and one at the 'bottom' of the 'mountain' (i.e. each team has
one cable car).
On the command the Guides have to pass the cable car to each other without
losing their passenger. Lost passengers incur a 10 second time penalty (or
similar).
Each Guide has to take hold of the carriage - missing a Guide incurs a 10
second time penalty.
The team that gets their passenger to the other end of the mountain first is
the winner of the game.
CAPTURE THE FORT
Divide players into two
sides: Attackers and Defenders.
Defenders form a circle, holding hands and facing outward, with their captain in the
centre.
Attackers surround the fort at about eight or ten paces distant. They try to kick a soccer
ball into the fort; it may go through the legs of the defenders or over their heads. If it
goes over their heads, the captain may catch it and throw it out. If it
touches the ground inside the circle, the fort is captured and the players change
sides.
CARDS
GAME
Pack of cards.
4 room corners called Heart, Spade, Diamond, Club.
Music playing, when music stop, girls pick a corner to stand in.
Cut cards, all in
that corner are out. Pick another corner, cut cards, reduce players
etc till one left. Get girls out to call support for those in.
CAT AND
MOUSE
A row of
girls standing holding hands. Several rows of girls behind again holding hands in the row.
One girl (Cat) and one girl (Mouse) at either side of room. Cat chases mouse until caught.
One caller to shout Change. Girls in rows drop hands, do a quarter turn and hold hands in
what would have been columns. Change needs to be done
quickly and hold hands firmly so animal doesn't break through hands.
Caller shouts change as necessary to shorten / lengthen the game.
Also possible with 2 cats and 2 mice although suggest each cat is
only allowed to catch it's own mouse! Animals change over when caught
or exhausted or time limited.
COIN
GAME
This
game requires 3 chairs and 3 coins (we use 2 pences).
Split the Guides into 2 teams and number each Guide per team. Put the chairs
in a line with space in between so one at each end of the room and then the
other in the middle.
Start the game with all three coins on the middle chair. You also need to
tell each team which of the other 2 chairs is theirs. Girls will be
stood/sat away from the chairs.
The object of the game is to get 2 of the 3 coins onto their chair by only
moving one coin at a time. Girls can use any tactics they like.
Call a number and let them go! Winning team is the team with the most number
of points!
CROWS
CRANES AND CRUMBS
This game looks a bit like LADDERS, with girls
sitting facing a partner, with soles of shoes touching, but they then lie down.
Each of the 2 sides of the ladder is a different team for scoring. Each pair should
place 2 different objects, i.e a shoe and a necky at each side of where their feet
touch. 1st object is called CROWS, the other is called CRANES and the 2
objects together are called CRUMBS!
You then call CR........OWS, and the first guide
to sit up and snatch the 1st object wins a point for her team, you then call CR.......UMBS
and they have to sit up and snatch BOTH items, and so on! Make sure that you roll
the CR... bit to make it difficult for them to guess what you are going to call next.
FOOTBALL
One chair per Guide. 2 teams, 2 goals, 1 small ball. Put chair anywhere
in arena, sit a Guide on, can't move off that chair whatever. Add ball
and play. It's surprising how active it can be even when they can't
move off the seat!
GREAT CANADIAN SNOWSHOE
RACE
Method:
This is a relay game. Divide
group into even teams (about 5 Guides 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 a chair 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).
GUIDERS
KEYS
Nice rattling bunch of keys. Victim on chair in centre, blindfolded /
eyes shut sitting over keys. One volunteer to retrieve keys SILENTLY.
Victim hears noise, points to it, volunteer fails, next volunteer
etc. Volunteer gets key, next victim etc.
Actually keeps the rest of them quiet if they want to earn points for
their patrol by getting keys. Guiders' health warning - Expect large
cheers when keys are caught.
INDOOR
HOCKEY
Needs a bean bag and 2 hockey sticks with socks over ends to save precious floors (or
use rolled up newspaper or magazine
sellotaped round)
2 teams lined up and numbered as above. Bean bag in middle of arena.
Goals at each blank end. Caller shouts number, 2 girls run, collect
stick, hit bean bag into goal.
JUNK
FASHION SHOW
Robot
building - collect cardboard boxes, kitchen and loo roll holders, margarine tubs, bin
bags, foil, plastic bottles, yoghurt pots etc and get the Guides to make clothes out of
junk, then they can put on a fashion show to the other patrols.
Or
you could ask them to make robots out of the junk and then give a prize for the patrol
with the wackiest robot.
MOVING
CARDS
A Pack of
cards
One chair per Guide in a circle facing in. Number girls in series of
1 to (13)
Cut cards eg two of hearts. Number 2 girls move round 1 place, three
of spades = number three girls move round perhaps 2 places. Sitting
on someone's lap is permitted and expected. How many you get on one
lap depends on age and weight limit of chairs.
PEA
WELCOME GAME
Each Guide is given between 6 and 10
dried peas (depending on the
number of girls). They have to walk round the hall (mixing) and
when they meet someone they have to shake hands and say 'Hello, my
name is......'. The other person replies with their name. The
person who first 'introduces' themselves gives over a pea to the
other person. The sounds easy but it is amazing how long it lasts.
The winner is the first one to have no peas left. The Guides loved
it so much that they are constantly asking to play the 'pea' game.
PLEASE BRING ME!
One member of the Patrol only to run per call.
Guider asks for something ... eg blue, soft, entertaining, a G file,
to measure with, to write with. Guider is only mobbed by one guide per patrol
per call - first there gets the point for her Patrol.
QUICK
CHANGE
One chair
per Guide less one in circle facing in. Odd girl in middle.
Callers shouts swap places with someone who has a brother. All those
with brothers stand up, swap chairs. One in middle tries to fill a
chair first. Swap places with someone who used to be a Brownie, has a
pet, goes to x school. etc
ROCK TREE AND BRIDGE
Split unit into equal teams of 6-10 girls The teams
line up at one end of a room, in file, one behind another. On the word ‘go’, the
first member of each team runs forward approx. one metre and crouches on the floor to
make the ‘rock’. The next team member jumps over the rock and moves forward
another metre, then stops. She stands still with her arms raised up at shoulder level
to become the ‘tree’ .The third team member jumps over the rock, runs
around the tree (one complete circuit), then runs on for a further metre. She stops
and makes a bridge with her body i.e. feet and hands in touch with the floor,
back arched up in the bridge shape. The remainder of the team takes it in turns to
jump over the rock, run around the tree, and wriggle under the bridge, then run to
the end of the room. The ‘rock’ runs around the tree, under the bridge and
to the end of the room, followed by the ‘tree’ going under the bridge and on to
the end of the course. Finally, the bridge gets up and runs to the end of the
room. The first team to complete these instructions wins!
RUSH HOUR TRAIN
You will need: chairs and one old newspaper (ideally same with same number of
pages) per player.
Preparation: Before the meeting, go through each newspaper and rearrange all the
pages so that they do not run in sequence.
When ready to play, arrange as many chairs as there are participants in two rows facing
each other and far enough apart to provide just sufficient room for two people to sit
facing each other. Place the chairs about six inches from the next in that row and put one
at each end of the double row, facing inward.
When all the players have struggled into their seats, give each of them one of the papers
you have prepared.
On the word "Go", all the participants have to return the pages in their paper
to the correct order and the first to do so wins.
A spectator's game if ever there was one, so be ready with the camera!
SKITTLES
Needs a skittle (washing up bottle etc) and 2 bean bags
2 teams lined up opposite each other numbered in opposite directions
so 1 is opposite 6, 2 and 5, 3 and 4. Skittle in middle of arena. One
bean bag at each empty end of the arena. Caller shouts number. One
guide runs from each line to a bean bag, throws to knock over
skittle, wins point for a hit.
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