Category: Troop Time Games

Materials for Adventure Guide.

Sitting, Lying, Standing

Summary:

Perform a scene where one actor is always sitting, one is standing, and one is lying down

Instructions:

 

Divide players into groups of 3

  1. Break Campers into groups of 3 and give them a scenario (e.i. Making dinner, telling your parents about a bad grade on a report card, or building a fort)
  2. The campers act out the scene in a fun way, throwing each other curveballs by standing sitting or laying down thus forcing the others to change their position

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Sentence Stretching

Summary:

Start with a single sentence, and add words until you can’t any longer.

Instructions:

Divide players into groups of 5 or 6

  1. give each group a simple sentence. Example: Jeff ate pizza
  2. Each student takes turn in order adding words to the sentence

Example:

Student 1: Jeff ate the spicy pizza

Student 2: Jeff quickly ate the spicy pizza

Student 3: Jeff quickly ate the hot, spicy, pizza.

Student 4: Jeff sloppily and quickly ate the hot, spicy pizza.

Student 5: Jeff Sloppily and quickly ate the hot, gooey, spicy, pizza.

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Crambo

Summary:

A rhyming guessing game.

Instructions:

Divide players into groups of 4 or 5.

  1. That player must then say something like “i’m thinking of a word that rhymes with hug.”
  2. Players ask questions that to help them guess the target word. Example: “Is it something eaten by a spider?”
  3. The reply must be a rhyming guess of what that player was thinking Example: “No it is not a bug.”
  4. If the chosen player is stumped, or someone successfully answers the question the asking/answering player becomes the new chosen player.

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