GAMES
GAMES
GAMES
Book 2
Games that can be used for Girls’ Brigade
Achievements, Devotions or fill in games
Contents
 Pin Name on Back Game
 Pillow Relay
 Fashion Games - Hat Snatching
- Glad Bag
- Shoe Mountain
 Cup – It
 Jaffa’s & Chopsticks
 Take Your Rubbish With You
 Tweedledum & Tweedledee
 Balloongories
 Tower Building
 Duster Hockey
 Don’t Drop The Egg!!
 Flour Cake
 Pass The Parcel with a difference
 Tacos & Bridges
 Musical Bumps
 Human Rock Paper Scissors
 Alphabet Soup
 Banana Surgery
 Duck Target
 Balloon Pyramids
 Balloon Games: - Balloon Juggling
- Balloon hats
Adapted for Girls’ Brigade Program by Elizabeth Neale 2014
Pin Name on Back Game
What you need:
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Strips of paper
Safety pins
Sheets of writing paper
pencils
How to play:
 Write different names on the strips of paper (The names could
be themed). Make sure that the name is not they own name.
 Everyone must try to write as many names down, without
letting others see own name.
 Person who has most names WINS.
Pillow Relay
This game can be used for a Company Sleepover or Pyjama Night.
What you need:
 Pillows
 Tape
How to Play:
Divide into teams of at least 6. The first person must carry all the
pillows up and back and then pass all the pillows onto the next team
member, who does the same.
If you drop the pillows you have to start again.
Fashion Games
These games can be played as a fun night or at camps.
Hat Snatching Game:
What you need:
 Different styles and sizes of hats
 Music
How to play:
Sit in a circle close enough to snatch a hat off the head of the person
in front. One person does not wear a hat. The music plays and
everyone must keep snatching the hat in front of them. When the
music stops, the person without a hat is out.
(Similar to musical chairs).
Glad Bag:
What you need:
 Different clothes
 Music
How to play:
Have a bag filled with clothes. Play the game along the lines of “pass
the parcel”. When the music stops, an item of clothing is chosen
from the bag and must be put on.
Shoe Mountain:
How to play:
Divide the group into two teams. Everyone takes off their shoes and
places them in a plie in the middle – the whistle blows and the first
team to retrieve all their shoes, and put them on and then stand in a
straight line for inspection - Wins
Cup – It
This game is great for working as a Team.
What you need:
 Ping Pong Balls
 Paper or plastic cups
 Large area without carpet
How to play:
Divide the group into to two teams.
One team will “bat” and sits behind home plate. Team B is in the
“field” and is scattered around the room.
A player from Team A must throw a Ping-Pong ball into the field from
no lower than shoulder height. Team B players must attempt to
catch the ball with a paper/plastic cup in as few bounces as possible.
Team A receives a point for each time the ball bounces on the floor
before being cupped. Set a maximum number of bounces at 15 due
to the dribble effect of the ball just before it rolls. Use a couple of
referees to keep track of the bounces. Each member of the team
gets one throw, and then the other team come to bat.
Total the point’s scored every inning, playing as many innings as time
will allow.
Here are some additional rules:
 Out of bounds: A line is drawn from left to right through home
plate and open doorways. The ball must not be thrown behind
the plate or through doorways. Low handing lights that might
obstruct a ball may also be considered out.
 Throwing: Batting may be in any direction, but when the ball is
released, the hand must be above the plane of the batter’s
shoulder. Fielders may not stand directly in front of the batter
or hinder the batter in any way.
Jaffa’s and Chopsticks
This game is fun and is a variation of the “The Chocolate Game”.
What you need:
 Jaffa’s
 Chopsticks
 Bowl
 Tray
 Dice
 Table
How to play:
Place the Jaffa’s in a bowl in the centre of a table. Each person sitting
around the table takes a turn at rolling the dice. The first person who
rolls a six can run to the table, pick up the chopsticks and try and eat
the Jaffa’s. In this game no hands area allowed, however they can
use the chopsticks in any manner they choose.
While the person who rolled the six is getting ready to eat the Jaffa’s
the group keeps taking turns rolling the dice. If someone rolls a six,
then the person who rolled the six before them relinquishes their
right to the Jaffa’s, and the second person must take their place. The
game is over when the entire Jaffa’s are gone.
Other suggestion to the game:
 You can change the number of the roll, throughout the game.
 You can use M&M’s or Maltesers instead of Jaffa’s, for
something different.
Take your Rubbish with you.
This game is for 6 or more people.
What you need:
 Masking tape
 Lots of crumpled up newspaper
How to play:
Put the masking tape down the centre of the hall to divide the room.
Divide the group into two teams, one on either side of the masking
tape. Throw the crumpled up newspaper pages randomly into the
centre somewhere.
On the whistle blow, everyone has to grab all the newspaper on their
side and throw it over to other side. Each person is only allowed to
pick up one piece of newspaper at a time. The object of the game is
to get as much newspaper on the opponent’s side before the whistle
blows again. You decide how long before the whistle blows, and the
more newspaper you have the more fun it is.
Team A
Team B
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
This game is for 10 or more people
How to play:
Divide the group into two teams. Get each team to line up facing
each other, and then number the groups as shown below.
(5)
(1)
(4)
(2)
(3)
(3)
(2)
(4)
(1)
(5)
One team is Tweedledee and the other is Tweedledum.
Tweedledum alsways goes first. The leader calls out a number and
the Tweedledum takes a step forward, looking straight at their
corresponding Tweedledee and say loudly “I am Tweedledum.”
Tweedledee than takes a step towards their corresponding
Tweedledum and say “I am Tweedledee”. They continue in this
fashion always looking straight at each other until they meet nose to
nose in the middle. Then they reverse, taking one step back at a
time, each time saying their name loudly.
They are not allowed to laugh, smile, smirk, snigger, giggle , snort or
grin. If they do, a point is scored for the other team and they return
to their sports without finishing their steps. If both make it back, and
neither of them smiles, etc, then a point is scored for each team. If
both of them dissolve in giggles at the same time, no points are
scored.
Balloongories
This game is for 10 or more people.
What you need:
 Balloons
 Pieces of paper with categories written on them
How to play:
Blow up the balloons and put slips of paper in them that read things
such as countries or things in a suitcase for example.
Everyone stands in a circle with some distance between them. On
the word “go” the balloon is patted around the circle and every time
someone gains possession of the balloon, they must say something
that fits into the category that hasn’t already been said within 3
seconds. If they repeat something that has already been said, or are
too slow saying something, they burst the balloon and the category
changes according to what is in the new balloon.
To discourage the children from pretending to not answer and then
get to burst a balloon, for each answer they get right, they get a
small reward for example: points, lollies or gift.
Examples of categories:
Places in Australia
Countries
Pizza Toppings
TV Stars
Nursery Rhymes
Sports Equipment
Bible characters
Cars
Things in a suit case
TV Shows
Songs
Boys’ Names
Sweets
Vegetables
School Subject
Colours
Famous People
Fairy Stories
Girls Names
Fruit
Article of Clothing
You can make up your own categories according to the age of your
group.
Tower Building
This game is a Team building game.
What you need for each Team:
 1 Big Plastic Bowl
 1 Roll Masking Tape
 Newspaper
 1 Balloon
 Square bit of foil
 Coloured paper
 Scissors
What to do:
To work as a team to see who can build the highest, strongest (most
stable), most beautiful tower.
Give time to design and prepare the tower. (Work out each person’s
task, involve everyone)
Every group must use all materials.
Duster Hockey
This game is a great Team building and fun game.
What you need:
 Two rolled up Newspapers – Taped
 One small Ball or Bean Bag
 Two Goals – they could be chairs
How to Play:
Divide the group into two teams and allocate each person a number.
There will be an equivalent number on the opposite team. When
your number is called, you run into the middle of the room- pick up
your rolled-up newspaper and try to hit the ball into your team’s
goal.
Goal
Team B
Team A
Goal
Don’t drop the Egg!
This is a messy game. You can use Water Balloons instead of Eggs
What you need:
 A lot of Eggs (uncooked)
How to play:
Choose a partner and form two lines, standing opposite from your
partner. Throw the egg to your partner and then tale one step back,
etc. The winning pair is the pair that is the furthest distance apart
without dropping the egg and keeping it intact.
Flour Cake
This game is fun and messy.
What you need:
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One knife (plastic)
Newspaper or tarps
One jellybean
Flour
Cake tin
Table
This game you can have up to 6 or more players.
How to play:
Spread the newspaper or tarps over the floor and over the table.
Put Flour into the Cake tin REALLY tight and then pat gently until the
flour cake comes out on the table, leaving a shape the same as the
cake tin.
Place the jellybean on top of the flour cake more or less in the centre
of the cake.
Players to stand round the table a few steps back in a circle pick
someone to go first and pass them the knife. They must then go and
“slice” a bit off the flour cake. They then pass the knife to the person
on their left in the circle and take their place.
This continues in turn until someone knocks off the jellybean which
then retrieves using their teeth.
Pass the Parcel
Everyone knows about Pass the Parcel game. This game has a twist in
it to make it different.
What you need:
 A parcel with prizes wraped up inside.
 Music player
How to play:
The group sits in a circle and “Passes the Parcel” around the group
while the music plays. When the music stops, whoevers is holding
the Parcel, unwraps one layer and keeps the small prize hidden
within the layer. This continues until the last layer is unwrapped.
The twist to the game is as well as adding a small prize within each
layer, add a written “Challenge” of some sort that the person has to
complete before continuing with the game.
The challenge can be something the person must do in front of the
group or something to share with the group.
For example:
 Sing a song to the group
 Do 20 push ups
 Have a mystery plate of food that they have to eat.
You can make up your own challenges for the group to do.
Tacos & Bridges
This game is fun and can be played as an icebreaker game.
Taco: Two players hold hands to be the taco shell, and a third
player stands between them as the filling.
Bridge: Two players make an arch for the bridge, and a third
player crouches beneath them as the water.
How to play:
Choose one person to be the caller. At "Go," the whole group
moves about the play area, until the caller yells out "Tacos" or
"Bridges." All players, including the caller, must then scramble to
get into a three-person taco or bridge formation
Whichever player is not in a trio becomes the new caller.
Musical Bumps
You will need:
 A CD player or similar with dancing music
 Some little prizes
How to play:
The children dance around in the centre of the room until the music
stops, when they must sit down on the floor as quickly as possible.
The last one down is eliminated.
Hints:
If you are playing with very young children you may find it easier to
eliminate the children by asking them to dance in a different area of
the room, rather than expecting them to stop completely!
It can be better to award a prize to the last 2 or 3 children standing
rather than try to pick one winner.
Human Rock Paper Scissors
Rock Paper Scissors”, it involves two players selecting simultaneously
revealing their choice of Paper, Rock or Scissors.
Paper beats Rock, Rock beats Scissors, and Scissors beats Paper.
This game can be played in human size.
This version of Human size of Rock, Paper, Scissors, it is suitable to
play in teams. The game involves having two clearly defined zones.
To begin, each team decides on which play to run – (rock, paper or
scissors). The two teams then meet in the playing area. If your teams
symbol wins, you chase the other team back to their zone, trying to
tag the team members before they get back to their zone.
If you team’s symbol loses, you must run back to your own zone
before you’re caught.
If you get caught, you then join the other team.
The game ends when everyone is on the same team.
Alphabet Soup
What you need:
 Alphabet cereal or Alphabet Soup.
 Plate
 Table
How to play:
Split your group into several teams. Give each team a platter and a
few cans of alphabet soup, or for a less messy option, a box of
Alphabets cereal. Each team must sift through the goo to spell words
or make numbers.
You can give points a number of ways:
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Words of three letters
Words of four letters
Words with five or more letters
You can give students high points for spelling spiritual words
The biggest word gets a lot of points
Leaders' names get high points as well
They are given a time frame to do this (maybe 5 minutes or so).
Banana Surgery
This can either be played as an upfront game, or if you have a smaller
group, you can have everyone play.
What you need:
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Bananas
Pins, Needles
Tape
Anything that can be used to reconstruct the banana.
How to play:
Have a team peel and cut up a banana into equal parts. (Don’t tell
them what comes next until they're done.) Then tell them they must
put the banana back together using pins, needles, tape, or whatever.
The team with the best reconstructed banana wins.
Duck Target
This game is wet and outside game.
What you need:
 Rubber ducks
 Water pistols
 Outside area
 Markers (Witches hats)
 Water Tap
How to play:
Divide the group into two teams.
One team stands is a marked area and places the rubber ducks on
top of their heads.
The other team stands on the side as a gauntlet with the water
pistols.
Team A with the ducks try to reach the other marked area, without
having the ducks knocked off with the water.
Team B, try’s to knock off the duck off the Team A’s heads.
The team that last the longest with the ducks on their heads is the
winning Team.
Balloon Pyramids
The purpose of this game is to build teamwork and communication
skills.
What you need:
 Packets of Balloons
 Sticky Tape
How to Play:
Divide the group into teams and tell them they are to build a
pyramid using only the sticky tape and balloons.
Have a judge to decide which group has made a pyramid with good
height, stability and how much it looks like a pyramid. Also have the
judge watch on how the communicated throughout the game.
Balloon Games
These balloon games are great teambuilding and communication
skills.
Balloon Juggling
What you need:
 Pack of Balloons
 Large area
 Balloon Pump
How to Play:
Divide the group into a team of three or four.
Give each team a couple of balloons (5 or 7 balloons). Inflate the
balloons, but to large.
Then the each team takes a turn on how long they can juggle the
balloons in the air. They do this together.
The Team that juggles the balloons the longest is the winner.
Balloon Hats
What you need:
 Pack of Balloons (mixture of shapes)
 Sticky Tape
 Balloon Pump
How to play:
Divide the group into 4 – 6 participants and give them an assortment
of Balloons and the group must build either the largest or creative
hat.
Set a Time Limit for the groups to build their hats.