Some of these are educational, some of these are interesting, and some are great time consumers, but all are useful and can be played by anybody of any age!
The Big Squeeze
Girls sit in two lines facing each other
holding hands with the girls either side of them. At each end of the lines
place a tea towel on the floor. The Leader stands at one end with a coin (this is the start end). Everyone
except the two girls at the start end closes their eyes. The Leader tosses the coin onto the
tea towel (so there is no noise). The
Leader keeps tossing the coin until heads comes up. As soon as a line
leader sees heads they squeeze the hand of
the girl next to them. The squeeze goes down the line to the other end
where the last in line grabs the tea towel when they get the squeeze and
runs to the start of the line. The tea towel is
placed back on the floor and the game Leader tosses the coin again. The game
is won when the original team leader returns to the front of the line. With a large
group of Guides this might take too long – you could just set a limit of six
team wins to one team.
Human Knots
Everyone stands in a circle. Each Person reaches across
the circle with their right hand, and takes the right hand of someone across the
circle. Then everyone takes the left hand of someone else. Then,
without letting go of their grip, the team has to untie their knot. This
is a great co-operative game!
Elephant, Giraffe & Eagle
Everybody stand in a circle with one person in the middle.
This person points at one person in the circle and says either 'elephant'
'giraffe' or 'eagle'. The person they are pointing at and the people to
either side of them must act out these animals. If they do it wrong or too
slow they sit down and the game continues now skipping over the person that is
sitting down so the person being pointed at may have a new neighbour to work
with. The last person left standing wins.
Elephant - middle person with hands long in front of face to be
nose, and side people with arms making a half circle up to the middle persons
head to be ears. Giraffe - middle has hands above head to be long neck.
Sides have hands and arms pointing down to the ground away from centre person to
be legs. Eagle - middle makes snapping beak with hands in front of
face, sides make moving wing motions with both arms away from centre person.
