Games with Chairs
Games with chairs
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To come up with some fun, exciting and entertaining games, it usually does not need any expensive equipment. After all, you can use items which are already part of the group room. If this room is not equipped with heavy benches, even the chairs can be repurposed to gaming devices. Chairs just literally asking for being used. You can use them for a number of betting games, relay games, skill games and much more.
Also for pedagogical reasons, chairs can be easily integrated into group work. The reason: Games with chairs benefit the natural urge of children to exercise. Moreover, imagination and fantasy are stimulated because, for the duration of the game, chairs are no longer chairs but represent something entirely different. Basically, with chairs you can do just about everything which the imagination of youth worker and young people can come up with.
When it comes to playing with chairs, it is important that safety for each participant is upheld at any time. In the heat of the battle, it is easy to slip, stumble and get a bump on the head. Therefore, it is also important that you do not play those games on a slippery floor and likewise participants wear shoes with a good grip. A bit of age-appropriate information about safety before the game cannot hurt either.
Games with tables
For a variety of games, such as card and other board games, players sit at a table, which makes the furniture an important element to the game. However, the table can also be part of the game itself, as is the case with table tennis, table football, and table hockey. Here are the tables specifically designed for the game.
Games with Tables
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Games with Tables
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Games with Tables
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However, with not much effort you can use tables for a fun and entertaining game day as well. After all, classrooms for children and youth groups usually have some tables available. Thus, there are already ideal conditions to play some wild games around the table.
If you want to try some of these games with your friends at home first, just make sure you are not using the most valuable table in the house. It the heat of the moment it could get dirty or even damaged. And that is with high- quality woods only hard to eliminate. Better than the living room or dining table are crafting table or even a sturdy work bench – that is, if this is not a construction kit with inbuilt shelves.
The focus with all games involving tables should be the fun the young people have. After all, it doesn’t happen too often, that kids can romp around the table and without restraint to their hearts content or even use them as an acrobatic outlet.
Games with Chairs
- Chair lifting
Players must lift up a chair.
- Obstacle course over chairs
Participants must get over the chairs like a hurdle race.
- The chair-way
Participants must cover a certain distance just by walking over chairs
- Throne
The objective is to carry another kid while you are sitting on a chair.
- Please stand still
As many players as possible have to stand on the same a chair
- Balancing the chair
Participants must balance a chair with only one hand.
- Impostor
Several chairs must be stacked on top of each other to build a high tower.
- Hopping with the chair
Participants must hop a certain distance while sitting on the chair
- Chair rally
Participants have to try and reach the finishing line, using two chairs.
- Water relay race
Participants must carry a cup of water with a chair.
- Chair Baseball
The objective is to tee off a ball with the back of a chair.
- Sneaking up
One kid has to try to sneak an object under the seat, without the kid sitting on it seeing it.
- Recapping chairs
Children must attach two matching shoes under the legs of the chair.
- Circle games with chairs
Participants sit in a circle of chairs and have to complete a task
Games with Tables
- Teeing off blindly
Two players have to tee off each other blindfolded.
- Raabomberless
Participants must flick little figurines over the table.
- Below and Above
A participant has to climb under a table without touching the ground
- Flicking it across the table
The players use a table as a hill, with the objective to flick tokens over it.
- Using a table as a stretcher
A table is first used as a stretcher and then as a relay race.
- Getting the scarf
The objective is to grab a scarf from a table only using your mouth.
- The Chase
Two kids chase each other around the table.
- The big push
Two teams have to try to push each outside the field
- Lifting the table
Participants have to lift a table and hold it as long as possible in the air.
- Hurdling over tables
Participants are required to complete an obstacle course on beer tables
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