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Games with Dominoes

Those games belong to the classic games for children and adolescents for a long, long time. The special charm of a small bag of dominoes in the toy box is that you can use it a) for the classic domino game or b) you can line them all up, then tip the first one over and create the classic domino effect.

In addition, games with dominoes have an educational factor with younger participants: The kids learn playfully dealing with numbers. If that is the effect, the team leader is after; he should make sure that all kids have roughly the same educational level so that kids whose number skills are not as great to not feel left out.

Besides that, the classic domino, where the numbers have to be laid together so that the add up to a given sum, they can also be used for a number of other games. For example, they could be used to build a tower or other little buildings.

1. Eyes Memory

   Memorising the numbers of dominoes

2. The Domino Labyrinth

   Creating a labyrinth of dominoes.

3. Domino Jenga

   Using dominoes to build a tower and then pull single dominoes out

4. Sensing the pips on dominoes

   Sensing the number of pips on dominoes blindfolded

5. Domino Parcour

   Building a racetrack of dominoes and then driving through with an electric car.

6. Domino Target Throwing

   Throwing dominos at a certain goal

7. Domino Day Home Edition

   Set up a long domino chain, then topple them over to create the domino effect

8. Dominos to the start

   The classic game of dominoes

9. Summing up quickly

   Adding up the pips of dominoes.

10. Building a city with dominoes

    Building a city with dominoes

11. Bringing the dominoes to fall

    Bringing the dominoes to fall

12. Tower ala Domino Games

    Build a tower from Dominoes

13. Track over track

    Bringing the dominoes to fall. Who topples over the most dominoes?

14. The perfect picture

    Laying out dominoes so that they create a picture. Then let the others guess what it is.

15. Dominos Search

    Finding hidden dominoes.

16. Estimating certain lengths

    Using dominoes to estimate certain lengths

17. Relay Domino

    Building a Domino track stone by stone as a relay.

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Games with Buttons

Even common everyday objects can be exploited for funny and exciting games. These include, for example, games with buttons, which you can get in every well-stocked department store. Those buttons can be used for many different tasks and games. For example, the buttons could be some kind of a reward for accomplished tasks; for the individual or the team alike. You also can use them as replacement tokens for various games. In this case, the buttons of each team should have a uniform colour.

Buttons can also have an educational value. The kids can learn fine motor skills and be crafty. Sewing a button on a piece of cloth would be a great example.

1. Time to flick

   Buttons must be flicked into a target.

2. Flicking, with a difference

   Buttons must be flicked off the table in targets with different distances.

3. Sorting out the buttons blindfolded.

   The buttons need to be sorted out blindfolded, by size, using buttonholes.

4. Threading game

   Threading buttons on a string

5. Colour and hole?

   Memorising different buttons (size, colour, buttonholes, etc.)

6. Shell game with buttons

   The well-known shell game only this time without mobsters.

7. Button instead of head

   Each button is assigned a certain number. Kids draw 10 buttons and add up their value.

8. Buttons on the wall

   Throwing buttons on the wall.

9. Buttons on the move

   Buttons have to be passed on to the next child using either their feet of toothpicks.

10. Button ‘n’ roll

    Let buttons roll as far as possible.

11. Sewing against the time

    Sewing on as many as possible buttons within one minute.

12. Blow me away

    Blowing a button as far as possible away.

13. Stacking buttons

    Stacking buttons to a tower

14. Buttons up into the air

    Throwing buttons in the air and catching them again.

15. Guessing with your ears

    Shaking a jar with buttons and estimating how many buttons are in there

16. Just guess

    How many buttons are in the jar?

17. Crafting animals from buttons

    Crafting animals from buttons

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Games with Bottle caps

Collecting corks can be very rewarding for the team leader if he wants to organise games with common household goods. Crown corks, again, can be replacement tokens for many games. And not to forget, bottle corks are extremely easy to collect, because they would accumulate in every household within a short time or, alternatively, can be obtained from bottle shops.

The great advantage with bottle tops of any kind is that each child can easily receive the same number of buttons to play like everybody else. And it also will not feel disadvantaged with fewer quality materials.

However, kids should never play unsupervised with bottle caps because they have sharp edges and can hurt children.

1. Protecting the environment with a difference

   Everyone collects as much as possible bottle caps.

2. Cork to the wall

   Throwing a cork as close as possible to the wall

3. Cork boats

   Each group puts sequentially 10 corks in a pool

4. Cork chain

   Corks must be strung together on a thread.

5. Shooting bottle caps

   Corks must be thrown into different targets.

6. Bottle Caps tower

   Building a tower from bottle caps

7. Corks and cherries

   Rifle shooting only the missile is the cork, the amination a cherry pit.

8. Counting Corks

   Successively, a different number of corks are passed on under the table. All corks must be added up.

9. Fishing bottle caps

   With a magnetic fishing rod fishing bottle caps.

10. Panel building

    Flattening the corks with a hammer and then build a tower.

11. Exchanging corks

    All the corks and bottle caps represent a certain monetary value. They are used as play money.

12. Bottle cap rattle

    Crafting a rattle of threaded bottle caps.

13. Bottle cap memory

    Pairing two same-labelled bottle caps

14. Target throwing

    Throwing bottle caps into shoes.

15. Bottle caps kicker.

    Two teams play bottle cap kicker on a table.

16. Turning bottle caps

    The objective is to turn over as many as possible bottle caps.

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