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Games with Dustbin-Bags

Plastic and garbage bags offer the advantage that they are sturdy, easy to handle and available in different sizes. Therefore, you have a variety of options for group games. For example, combined with different coloured bags they can be used for the good old fashion show, which will delight the girls in particular. You can also use them for a water transport, where everyone has to carry as much as possible water from A – B. This is great fun in summer. And finally, the bags can be used to host an exciting summer toboggan race; provided you have a slope with a suitable drop available.

1. All under one water roof

   Using garbage bags to build a drain – how much water can flow through?

2. Garbage bag snake

   Cutting garbage bags into long decorative garlands and snakes.

3. Sack race

   This time, for the sack race you do not use a jute sack, but a garbage bag.

4. Displacing water from water tub

   By inflating a plastic bag, water is displaced from a container.

5. Water bag transport

   Transporting plastic bags, filled with water.

6. Garbage bags pipeline

   Using garbage bags to build a pipeline

7. Plastic ribbon fight

   Everyone gets a plastic ribbon attached to his trousers. While protecting his own, he is trying to snatch that of others.

8. Creating top shelf designer clothes from garbage bags

   Tailoring designer clothes from garbage bags

9. Sack race

   Sack race in or on an inflated garbage bag.

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Games with Nails

Even in a toolbox, you can find utensils to come up with some interesting games to fill an entire afternoon. Simple items like nails can give them a few hours of entertainment. For examples, the nails can be bent and hung on a string; you can also staple the nails as high as possible. However, the team leader should always supervise the kids, because nails can cause nasty injuries if the kids do not take appropriate caution.

1. Nail board

   The objective is to hammer a nail into a board.

2. Nailing into logs

   Making the nails disappear with the pointy part of the hammer.

3. Bending the nails game

   10 nails must be hung on a clothesline.

4. Yarn image with nails

   Making a yarn image with nails.

5. Marble trail made of nails

   Running a marble through a trail of nails.

6. Nail by nail will make a chain.

   Making a chain with nails

7. Stacking nails

   The objective is to stack a pack of nails on top of a bottleneck.

8. Set of nails

   Put up as much as possible nails on the table.

9. Hanging up nails

   10 nails have to be hung up on three ropes with the help of a stick with a hook.

10. Cardboard tubes with a difference

    Crafting a rainmaker from a cardboard tube

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Games with Shoes

Since there was a shoe attack carried out on US Ex-President Bush, this game enjoyed great popularity at the internet. However, you can easily organise a gaming evening involving shoes. Again, the options are almost limitless. For example, you could organise a race on which team can throw the shoe the furthest. Another one would be that two participants have to undo and re-do each other’s shoes as quickly as possible. The shoes can also be used as a substitute for a pyramid of cans which must be taken down by a ball. You even can organise a night all about Shoe Hockey.

1. Smell my shoes

   Who can assign the right socks to the right shoes blindfolded?

2. Tying shoe laces

   Always two children tie their shoe laces together and complete an obstacle course.

3. Target throwing with shoes

   Throwing shoes at a target.

4. Shoe Memory

   All shoes are put on one heap. Then the matching shoes have to be found.

5. Tying your shoes differently

   Tying your shoes with only one hand

6. Who’s got the biggest shoes!

   Each team presents their shoes in a long queue.

7. Who has seen my shoe?

   All shoes are collected on a great pile and have to be put on as quickly as just possible.

8. Who owns the pawn

   A shoe-game with various tasks.

9. Tie my shoes

   This game is all about tying your shoes in the shortest time possible.

10. Rifle shooting with a difference

    Shoe Throwing: Shooting at cans with shoes

11. Shoe hockey stick

    Playing shoe hockey, using a shoe like a stick

12. Chair makeover

    Blindfolded dressing up a chair

13. Shoe Golf

    When you play shoe golf, your shoe becomes the ball.

14. Hiding Shoes

    A participant must find the hidden shoes of the other players.

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Games with Dices

Dice games - from "Ludo" to Yahtzee - are among the classics group games. However, in your group afternoons, you can interpret those game in an entirely new way. Kids have great fun when encouraged to contribute with their own ideas to popular games. Since most of those dice games are based on tactics and strategy, children learn playfully strategic thinking. In addition, for most of the dice games, children also learn the basics of math, as sometimes they have to add numbers, while sometimes they have to subtract numbers. Dice games are popular games for the outdoors, whoever, in this case, a big foam dice should be used.

1. 3 or 2?

   Everybody takes 1-3 toothpicks in his hand. Who can guess how many there are in total?

2. The cups game.

   Depending on the number you have cast you may put a token into a cup.

3. The big dice chaos

   This is a game where the dices may fly back and forth

4. Damp dice tower

   Building a dice tower held together by spit

5. Pyramids Bingo

   A pyramid dicing game with crossing off numbers

6. Maths King wanted

   A great numbers game for teaching mathematics.

7. Surprise Cup

   The last person receiving the token gets content of the cup

8. Dicing

   A funny dicing game with elimination or giving up a token

9. Dicing for religious education

   Dicing for religious education

10. Dice gambling

    The dicing game for gamers: all or nothing, risk or losing, carry on or be safe?

11. Dicing game - 53 loses

    A dicing game with a lot of calculations.

12. The darn 1

    A dicing game with fortune and misfortune

13. Folding rule for patience

    The objective is to get the dice from one end of the folding rule to the other end and then into a cup.

14. Dicing – a game with tasks

    Depending on the number you cast you have to complete a certain task.

15. The mountain pass road

    This is a dicing game with a self-made plan

16. Fox hunting

    The objective is to catch the fox by collecting points

17. Dicing house numbers

    Like in Bowling, casting house numbers

18. 17 and 4

    Whoever reaches the score 17 + 4 most accurately?

19. Finding the dice

    Dice are hidden in the room and subsequently needs to be found again

20. 30 dead

    The objective of the game is to reach 30 points. However, at each round one dice is removed.

21. Mäxle

    With this popular dicing game, you can lie and bluff

22. Spiral of disgust

    Depending on the number cast, the player is allowed to eat something

23. The burned 15

    The objective is to get as close to 15 using only one dice.

24. Polar bears, holes and fish

    This is a dicing game with the objective for the children to uncover the system behind it.

25. Lice game

    Only the one who is able to cast the previous number will get ahead.

26. Cube race

    This game depends on really fast dicing. A 6 will eliminate the players

27. Kazoo

    This is a strategic game, but a bit of luck can never hurt.

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Games with Measuring-Tapes

Even with the simplest of objects, such as the yardstick, you can come up with exciting competitions. However, you can use the yardstick also to prepare other games or use it as an aid, when needed. Also from an educational perspective, this simple object may not be despised. Most games, requiring a yardstick revolve around assessing or gauging measurements. This teaches kids correct estimations and correct judgment. In addition, the yardstick can be used for well-structured and precise teamwork. You also can train the kids’ sense of balance with a yardstick.

1. Balancing folding rulers

   Stacking several folding rulers on a bottle neck

2. Coin – folding rulers – egg run

   A coin is placed and transported on a ruler.

3. Obstacle course

   Moving a toy car with the unfolded folding ruler.

4. Folding ruler coordination game

   All players carry a folding ruler without ever getting out of touch with it

5. Laser pointer

   Marking a point on the folding ruler from a certain distance.

6. Pictionary 1 (laying out figures)

   Using the folding ruler to lay out figures

7. Pictionary 2 (painting figures)

   Paint pictures with a pen attached to a folding ruler.

8. Giant tweezers

   Using the folding ruler as giant tweezers and passing on sheets of paper this way

9. Estimating

   The objective is to estimate the height, length and width of several objects.

10. Transporting objects

    Transporting small objects on unfolded folding rulers

11. Top of the tower

    Leaning two folding rulers against each other

12. Shooting folding rulers

    Similar to Rabomberless but this time with a folding ruler.

13. Measuring the chaos …..

    The team has to run off and measure certain objects they were told to.

14. Building figures

    The objective is to create figures with folding rulers

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