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Outside Group Games

 

KING of the JUNGLE 

One person is chosen as the King of the Jungle.  Everyone hides their eyes and counts out loud together to 50, while the King goes and hides.  (you could have 2 people be the King together.)  Then everyone begins to look for the King(s). When you spot the KING, you don't tell anyone, then when no one is looking, you slip in and hide with the King. Eventually everyone starts to disappear, and the one left notices he's all alone, and feeling rather silly to be the last one left. The first one to find the King, gets to hide as the KING in the next round. This game is a blast.


RED ROVER

In this game, the kids form two lines facing each other.  The idea is that each team tries to "break through" the opposing team's line and take a person from that team to build a bigger team.

To begin choose two teams of equal size, and form two lines, facing each other and holding hands.

One side starts by picking a person on the opposing team and saying "Red Rover, Red Rover, send (name) right over."

Rajesh then lets go of his teammates and begins a headlong rush for the other line. His goal is to break through the line by overpowering the kid's hold on each other.

If the person you called over breaks through, he chooses one person for the opposing team to join his team, and they both go back and join in their line.<

If he fails to break through, he/she becomes part of the other team./p>

Each team alternates calling people over until one team has all the people and is declared the winner.

Note that since all the players are on the winning team at the end, there really are no losers in this game.


RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT

In this game, one person plays the "stop light" and the rest try to touch him/her.

At the start, all the children form a line about 15 feet away from the stop light.

The stop light faces away from the line of kids and says "green light". At this point the kids are allowed to move towards the stoplight.

At any point, the stop light may say "red light!" and turn around. If any of the kids are caught moving after this has occurred, they are out.

Play resumes when the stop light turns back around and says "green light".

The stop light wins if all the kids are out before anyone is able to touch him/her.

Otherwise, the first player to touch the stop light wins the game and earns the right to be "stop light" for the next game.


Freeze Tag !

This version of Tag, has one person that is "it", and when they touch someone, that person is "frozen" in place. They cannot move and must stand with their feet apart. The only way they can become unfrozen is if another player that is not frozen tags them. The game continues until all the players are frozen. Then the last person to be frozen is "it" for the next game and the game continues.


HUMAN CHAIN

 

Two people start the game. They hold hands and chase people, the person they catch joins the chain by linking hands. When another person is caught they can stay together or split 2 and 2 they must split in even numbers and can link together at will. This game is played till all are caught.