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It is not always easy to find a suitable game. However with the help of the categories, a short description and the allocated symbols, everyone can hopefully find a suitable game. In addition, you can also the complete database and search for games using specific search criteria. At the moment there are approximately 1000 games in the database.
An overview of all of the 1000 games
All of the games available in overview including details about the materials required (M :). By clicking on the link you will receive a detailed description.
- Acquaintance Games
- Circle Games
- Trust Games
- Fun & Contest Games
- Birthday Party
- Relay Games
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- Outdoor Games
- Theme Games
- Further Games...
- Travel games in the bus or car
- Relaxation games | Games for relaxing
- Experience games
- Games for choosing groups
- Communication games
- Co-operation games
- Games without winners or losers
- Word and language games
- Balloon games
- Games with a skateboard or scooter
- Sweet games
- Drinking straw games
- Egg games for Easter
- Quiz games
- Fun and joke games
- Miscellaneous games and program ideas
Station Games
- Sitting on the wall
M: nothing
- Head support
M: nothing
- Hold a weight horizontally
M: weights (boxes, stones)
- Leader taxi (wheelbarrow transport)
M: wheel barrow, stop watch, cones
- Monkey bars
M: Ladder, fixings or rope
- Button Sewing
M: 10-20 buttons, needles, yarn, scissors, cloth
- Darts station
M: Darts and replacements. Dartboard or cardboard.
- Pea Track
M: washing machine hose, hammer, peas, material to fix the hose
- Ball swing game
M: swing, ball
- Spaghetti in Macaroni
M: spaghetti, macaroni
- Make a fire and barbecue
M: Wood, newspaper, matches and grill sausages.
- The Pistol Shot
M: candles
- Pretzels on a string
M: String, pretzels
- Green Pea Game
M: dried green peas
- Catch a tennis ball with a paper basket
M: bowl, tennis ball
- Pile of Kinder Eggs
M: Enough Kinder Eggs (or plastic eggs) or film pots or enough matchboxes.
- Bocce
M: bocce balls
- The Drain Pipe
M: drainpipe, water buckets, tennis balls
- Target shooting
M: fire cones or stones or cans or buckets
- The Helmet Game
M: helmet with a spike, balloons
- Javelin
M: tyre or a other target, javelin, rope
- Fast Typing
M: typewriter, text, paper
- A slippy and slidey event with a piece of soap
M: 1-2 bowls, soaps
- Digging
M: Children's playground, digger, bucket and small balls.
- Sort and Pick Up
M: various several objects
- Swapping the bent nails
M: String, 10 bent nails
- Tyre slalom
M: 10-20 old tubes
- Water Squirt
M: table tennis ball, water hose or syringe, chute, water
- Darning socks and patchwork
M: Socks, wool, darning needle, scissors
- Tarzan on a rope
M: Rope for singing and a table or crate.
- Obstacle course
M: various objects for an obstacle race (tree trunk, ropes, bench, chairs, bobby car, rope-ladder…), stop watch
- A feeling for time and quantity
M: stop watch, water, water bowl
- Slow reactions?
M: stone, chestnut, matchbox or other objects
- The hot wire
M: Electrical equipment (wire, battery, lamp or door bell).
- Remember the Objects
M: different objects, blanket
- Telescope watcher
M: binocular, various objects
- Pot and lid
M: Containers with different types of lids (pots, plastic or glass bottles, cans, tins and tubes).
- The Locksmith
M: 15-20 different locks
- Finding pairs
M: sack, different objects, each object twice
- Nose Driving
M: match box or a potato
- Cherry Pit Spitting
M: measuring tape, cherries
- Tea Bag Toss
M: tea bags, measuring tape
- Beading pearls
M: 100-200 pearls, string, yard stick
- Tree Trunk Throw
M: tree trunk
- Packing the car up
M: old car or a big cardboard
- String Up the Group
M: long string
- Wellington boot shot
M: large Wellington boots
- Competition sawing
M: Saw, wood or tree trunk
- The group jumper
M: chalk
- Beakers and table tennis bats
M: table tennis racket, bowl, water beaker
- Hammering nails
M: nails, wood, hammer
- Wheelbarrow race
M: wheel barrow, stop watch, cones, stick or lance, water bowls or buckets, water
- Water pistol funnel
M: Water pistol, bucket, funnel and measuring beaker
- A needle in a haystack
M: bale of straw, box or large bowl, many sweets
- Towed away
M: car, tow rope, stop watch, measuring tape
- Wheel barrow roll
M: A old wheel with a metal pole as an axle.
- Orienteering run
M: Instructions written on paper, a compass and a terrain map if required.
- Labyrinth
M: a long tape, 5m long tree trunk
- Bicycle course
M: bicycle, objects for an obstacle race
- Rolling the cider barrel
M: barrel
- Water helmet game
M: helmet with a fixed beaker, water, bowl
- Tyre bridge
M: car tyres, ropes
- Rope bridge
M: Strong ropes (polypropylene ropes) 2-5 hooks, a safety belt if required.
- Wheel change
M: car jack, wheel disk
- Picture quiz 1 - the vegetable quiz
M: Printed stencils.
- The Longest Word
M: 15 letters
- Estimating tasks
M: Alternative 1: an empty jam jar, estimating materials (peas, matches, money etc.). Alternative 2: stones and scales. Alternative3: Water, tub and measuring beaker. Alternative 4: String
- Memory picture
M: Poster, cardboard for covering up and wooden board
- Asterix & Obelix knowledge
M: Stick/copy 10 figures from the Asterix & Obelix comics onto a piece of paper.
- Feeling letters
M: nothing
- Gargling a song
M: water beaker, water, 10 songs
- Something’s Smelly
M: 10 different spices, 10 empty yogurt cups, tin foil
- What’s in the Bag?
M: sack, different objects
- The Taste Expert
M: various kind of colas, sodas in neutral bottles
- Scent memory
M: for each object 2 tins or yogurt pots, objects to smell (earth, turf, bark, pine needles, resin, moss, forest fruits)
- Barefoot Park
M: different things for the barefoot path
- Time creeper
M: nothing (or a stop watch)
- The snake splits
M: nothing or only a measuring tape
- Gibberish
M: table tennis ball
- Ball catapult
M: ball, handkerchief
- Push and roll resistance
M: wheel board or skateboard
- Brush roll
M: Sawn off brush handles and a board.
- Blowing up an air bed
M: air mattress, measuring tape
- Water transport
M: water, beaker, sponge
- Crate balance
M: tree stump or beer crate
- Putting up a tent
M: tent, blindfold
- Building a tent
M: tent
- Bubble rally
M: bubbles
- Saw rally
M: saws, tree trunk
- Rolling the barrel
M: sturdy barrel
- Sewing on the Lines
M: needle and pin, paper
- Rolling board
M: wheel board or skateboard
- Lance knight
M: lance, blindfold, balloon, string
- The Right Way
M: binoculars, chalk or string
- Ring Throw Points
M: balloon, scissors, bottle
- Sorting Bottles
M: (beer) crate, empty bottles
- Melting ice cubes
M: ice cubes, stop watch
- Wax dripping
M: Candles, a lighter, a board with a pattern and a stopwatch.
- Paper cable
M: long string, paper
- Capturing the castle
M: Box, scissors, marbles and cardboard lid beer mat if required.
- Transporting Fever
M: board or a roof lath or a meter ruler, different things (tokens, stones)
- Tyre pile
M: car tires or inner tubes
- Personal weight
M: stable rope pulley, stable rope, strong branch, stop watch, measuring tape
- Tower of Babel With Egg Cartons
M: egg cartons or other cartons
- The Swinging Bucket
M: bucket, rope, little stones or chestnuts
- Slow riding
M: bike
- Riding in circles
M: bike and a marked circle
- Standing
M: bike, board or wooden blank
- The tree trunk seesaw
M: 2 tree trunk, stop watch
- Sentence with X
M: prepared letters
- Tree climbing
M: pins, paper with info (letters)
- Lead the Cow
M: cow, goat or sheep
- Paddle Over the Lake
M: swim vests, canoe
- The transport roller train
M: Roller train and transport materials if required.
- Scooter or bike rally
M: bike or scooter, objects for an obstacle race
- Inner tube tunnel - crawling
M: inner tubes, ropes
- Battering ram
M: Concrete blocks or a box filled with stones, A battering ram (tree trunk), 2 wooden planks, transportation.
- Spy
M: various objects, strings
Outdoor Games
- Stamp game
M: paper
- Bigger or better
M: apple, egg
- Everything’s bananas
M: bananas
- Town Spy Game
M: Signs, tasks
- Picture hunt as picture quiz
M: prepared photos and questions about the pictures
- Three sticks
M: for each team 3 sticks or 1 flag
- A smuggling game with puzzle pieces
M: puzzle of a treasure map on a cardboard
- Adventure cards
M: prepared and copied cards
- King battles
M: nothing
- Knocking game
M: wooden sticks or flash lights or whistles
- Hiding
M: nothing
- The snow trail
M: nothing
- Smuggling game
M: Smuggling goods (flour) and smuggling containers (tins, bags)
- Capturing the flag
M: ball or flag
- Thieves dens
M: nothing (or a flag)
- Capturing flags and banners
M: 20-30 flags
- Booty
M: treasure (apple, sweet etc.), life band per each person
- Candles and peas – a night time terrain game
M: candles, lighters, peas
- Castle Battles, Conquering Castles
M: nothing or only two flags
- Capture the Flag
M: 2 flags
- Bison hunt
M: approx. 200 beer mats
- Number hunt
M: cards with numbers, safety pins
- Robbers game
M: various objects
- Police and smugglers
M: smuggling objects, life strings
- Stealing the totem pole
M: totem or nothing
- Bomb commando
M: alarm clock, flag, treasure
- Gold bar transport
M: Wooden logs or other transportable objects (tons, beakers) and a camp flag for the marking.
- Rail track wars
M: marking tape
- Scavenger hunt
M: Marking material (chalk, sawdust, coloured ribbons, treasure and task sheet).
- Indians on the war path
M: life strings, treasure, pieces of leather, fur, pearls
Theme games and feasts
- Walk the plank
M: 2 tight ropes or a long board (tree trunk)
- Diving for treasure
M: bowl, water, jelly teddy bears
- In the bird’s nest
M: telescope or binocular, various objects
- Pumping water
M: water, buckets, bowls, sponges
- Loading the ship
M: various objects
- Pirate ships and cannon fire
M: water filled balloons, 2 blankets, marked field
- Pirates meal
M: rusks, plate of soup, lemons
- Pirate pantomime, pirate Pictionary
M: nothing (or well prepared pirate catchphrases)
- Rope ladder
M: rope ladder
- Bison hunt
M: lance, cardboards, wheelbarrow
- Sense
M: 16 little stones
- Archery
M: bow, arrows
- Silent creeping
M: various objects (cans with little stones inside)
- Nimble as a weasel – agile as a snake (crawling)
M: various objects for an obstacle race (tree trunk, ropes, bench, …), stop watch
- Fetching water
M: various objects suitable for an obstacle race, water bucket, water
- Tomahawk throwing
M: Tomahawk, cans
- Creeping up - silently!
M: blindfolds
- Duel at the totem pole
M: Foam isolation tubes (for pipes), sawn off brush handles or sticks, dirt or washable (finger) paints.
- Shield management
M: ball, shield
- Chariot race
M: nothing, or a wheel barrow
- Risk and jump
M: little stones, measuring tape
- Sword fight
M: sweeping brush handle padded with some foam (heating pipe insulation), 2 shields
- Fight with sticks
M: sweeping brush handle padded with some foam (heating pipe insulation)
- Bow and arrow telegraph
M: bow and arrow
- Knights pantomime or knights pictionary words
M: nothing (or well prepared knight catchphrases)
- Druids
M: list of ingredients
- Lasso throwing
M: lasso
- Chariot race with team change
M: nothing
- Horseshoe throwing
M: horseshoe, stick
- Washing gold
M: small pebbles, spray-paint (gold or silver)
- Recognising knots blindly
M: blindfold, knots
- Light feet
M: blindfolds
- Making paints
M: oil, leaves, charcoal and earth
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Travel games in the bus or car
- I spy...
M: nothing
- Miscellaneous distractions...
M: nothing
- Rowing regatta on the bus
M: nothing
- City – Country – River
M: paper and pencils
- Mau-Mau
M: cards
- Fiddling
M: cards
- Cheating
M: cards
- Battleships
M: squared paper, pencils
Relaxation games | Games for relaxing
- Imagine the Way
M: nothing
- Seasons of the Year
M: nothing
- Changeable Weather
M: nothing
- Be a balloon
M: nothing
- A Flower’s Day
M: nothing
- Strong as a Tree
M: nothing
- Wishes
M: nothing
- Lay your Head on my Lap
M: nothing
- Boat on the Water
M: nothing
- Crawling Blindly in the Room
M: nothing
- Noises
M: nothing
Experience games
- The shortest path
M: nothing
- Blind bearings
M: blindfolds
- Morse
M: nothing, or a torch per each person
- Forest noises
M: paper, pencils
- Forest detective
M: nothing
- Feel your way along the rope
M: blindfold, rope, objects for the station tasks
Games for choosing groups
- Lions, hunters, mothers-in-law
M: nothing
- In order
M: nothing
- Giants, elves and magicians
M: nothing
- Scissors, paper, stone
M: nothing
- Chair Contest
M: sturdy chairs
- Stuck under the blanket
M: blankets
- Puzzle
M: picture, scissors
- Pulling numbers
M: cards with numbers
- Thread Pull
M: strings
- Elimination game: apples - pears - oranges
M: prepared cards with apple, orange, pear
- Raid
M: Several types of different objects.
Communication games
- Guess the movement
M: nothing
- The monkey house
M: nothing
- Market Barkers
M: nothing
- Better than Eddie Murphy
M: nothing
- Foot contact
M: nothing
- Double statue 2
M: blindfold
- Laying figures
M: matches
- Blind Grabs
M: apples, lemons, and oranges
- Steno
M: text, paper, pencils
- Building
M: different building or craft material
- Mine field with mouse traps
M: mouse traps
Co-operation games
- Crossed roundabout
M: rope or chalk
- One On leg
M: nothing
- Caterpillar Walk
M: nothing
- Double roll
M: nothing
- Caterpillar race
M: Wide boards with hand and foot loops.
- Rope shapes
M: rope
- Catching mousetraps
M: mouse traps, rope
- Through the pipe labyrinth
M: hula-hoop
- Pullover or T-Shirt rally
M: old pullover or large T-Shirt
- Meter stick
M: meter stick
- The transport solution
M: rope, ball or other objects
- Conveyor belt
M: ball or sack filled with straw
- Solidarity
M: drink coaster or paper
- A co-operation game: A-wood race
M: A sturdy wooden frame in the shape of an A and 2 long ropes.
- Rope co-operation
M: 1-2 long stable ropes, 1 fat tree
- Rescue Island
M: carpet square, chairs, tables
- Defusing bombs
M: ropes, plastic bottle or bowl
- Co-ordination
M: 2 boards with ropes
- Bucket co-ordination
M: rope, 2 buckets, water
- Spider Web
M: ropes, 2 trees
Games without winners or losers
- Stay firm
M: nothing
- Widest smile, most evil grin
M: nothing
- Ghosts
M: nothing
- Opposites -Similarities
M: nothing
- The split second answer
M: nothing (only some appropriate questions)
- The sculptor and his shapes
M: nothing
- Everything in slow motion
M: nothing
- Evolution
M: nothing
- The blind and the seeing
M: blindfolds
- The ticking alarm clock
M: blindfold, alarm clock
- The hunt for understanding
M: cards with numbers
- Frank, Johnny and Walter
M: bonbons, sweets
- Drawing phrases on the back
M: nothing or: paper, pencils
- Skipping rope
M: rope
- Frogs
M: blindfolds
- Without direction
M: blindfolds
- Blind Rope shapes
M: rope
- Pole ballet or the wandering stick
M: sticks for each player
- I have never done that before! But I have!
M: ball
- Hula hula
M: hula hoop
- Risk
M: balloons, tasks
- The group feeding
M: spoons, bowls with muesli,
Word and language games
- Auntie Cathy
M: nothing
- Composite words
M: nothing
- ABC
M: nothing
- A duck - with two legs – jumps into the water - plop!
M: nothing
- Fight for attention
M: nothing
- Toothless
M: nothing
- Questions and answers 1
M: nothing
- Questions and answers 2
M: nothing
- Can the group count to 100?
M: nothing
- Hello, I am Anton from Ansbach!
M: nothing
- Languages jumble?
M: nothing (only some appropriate terms)
- Alphabetical memory
M: nothing
- Forbidden words
M: nothing
- Long sentence
M: nothing
- Fastest Counter
M: nothing
- Even Faster Counter
M: nothing
- Building words
M: list of objects
- Can you write your name?
M: chalk or pencils
- Draw a Christmas tree
M: paper and pencils
- Folding picture
M: paper, pencils
- There is an answer to every question - but sometimes not the right one!
M: paper, pencils
- Placing and replacing
M: paper, pencils
- Animalistic
M: paper, pencils
Balloon games
- Balloon tap
M: balloons
- Balloon electricity
M: balloons
- When a balloon loses it’s breath
M: balloons
- The balloon symphony orchestra
M: balloons
- Basket (air) balloon
M: balloons, spoons, basket
- Guess what belongs to whom
M: balloons, paper, pencils
- Airmail
M: balloon, tasks
- Water balloon catapult
M: balloons, large towels
- Shot put with a water balloon
M: balloons, water, measuring tape
- Task Run
M: candles, balloons, straw, water, cup, beaker
- Collecting with handicap
M: balloons, potatoes
Games with a skateboard or scooter
- Skateboard race
M: skateboard, rope
- Skateboarders push
M: skateboard
- Skateboard on a lead
M: skateboard, rope
- Skateboard bowling
M: skateboard, plastic bottles
- Roll drag
M: skateboard, ramp, measuring tape
- Fast as lightning
M: skateboard, stop watch
- Method of transport
M: skateboard
- Skateboard Obstacle race
M: skateboards, implements for an obstacle race
Sweet games
- Collecting bonbons
M: different coloured bonbons
- Picking up bonbons
M: bonbons
- A blind chicken
M: blindfolds, bonbons
- Packing up bonbons
M: bonbons, wrapping paper
- Rally: sweets with holes
M: toothpicks, candy rings (polo mints)
- Target throwing
M: candy rings, nails, wooden board
- Rolling
M: candy rings
- The toe bonbon rally
M: bonbons
- The opening toes
M: bonbons
- M&M relay
M: bonbons, spoon
- M&M's catapult
M: bonbons, spoon
- Marshmallow march
M: toothpick, marshmallows
- Marshmallow mouth
M: marshmallows, measuring tape
- Marshmallow spitting competition
M: marshmallows, measuring tape
- Marshmallow blowing competition
M: marshmallows, measuring tape
- Marshmallow kicking competition
M: marshmallows, measuring tape
- Marshmallow throwing competition
M: marshmallows, measuring tape
- Lollypop
M: lollypops
- Sweet masterpieces
M: various sweets, pack of salt sticks, liquorice sticks or biscuits, chocolate, etc.
- Thread-Candy
M: strings, bonbons
- Fish Something Sweet
M: paper clips, bonbons, fishing pole with a magnet
- What A Commotion
M: yarn, prizes (sweets)
Drinking straw games
- Obstacle course
M: light object (cotton wool, table tennis ball, little paper squares), straw
- Transporting corn or beans
M: straw, beans or little paper squares
- Water transport
M: straw, water, measuring beaker
- Pipeline
M: several straws, measuring beaker, water
- Mikado
M: straws
- Blowing competition
M: straw, cotton wool
- Blow pipe
M: cotton wool buds, straws
- Indoor blow pipe battle
M: cotton wool buds, straws
- Blow pipe battle with coloured darts
M: cotton wool buds, straws, coloured water soluble paints
Egg games for Easter
- Easter theme rowing regatta
M: list of objects
- Easter Pictionary
M: list of objects
- Easter egg nose rally
M: eggs
- Cream countryside
M: cream spray, 10 chocolate/candy Easter eggs. Bowl
- Cracked eggs
M: eggs
- Collecting coloured Easter sweets
M: various coloured bonbons or eggs
- Picking up coloured Easter eggs
M: various coloured sugar Easter eggs
- Easter card puzzle
M: Easter card, scissors
- The egg case
M: eggs, paper, sticky tape, cord
Quiz games
- Letter pantomime
M: nothing
- Don’t Answer Yes
M: nothing
- Thingamajig
M: list of objects
- Lively scrabble
M: card with letters, clothes pegs
- Yes or no?
M: list of questions and answers, 2 chairs
- What, Where and When?
M: nothing, some questions
- Paper tiger
M: scissors, paper
- Town, country, river
M: paper, pencils
- Hangman
M: paper, pencils
- Word salad
M: cut out 20-30 words from a newspaper.
- Celebrity guess-who
M: piece of paper with the name of a celebrity, safety pin
- Matchstick Puzzle and Dice Problems
M: Matchstick puzzles, matchsticks.
- Short Criminal Stories
M: short crimes
- Childhood Picture Sort
M: pictures of the children
- Do you know all about trees?
M: Suitable quiz questions or pictures.
- Body outline
M: Large pieces of paper. Chalk or pens.
- Joke question station
M: A list with joke questions
- Riddle station
M: A list with riddles
- Feeling objects
M: sack, different objects
- Soccer Quiz
M: some questions, ball
- Answer the Questions
M: for each team the same newspaper
- Sound Guessing
M: recorded sounds with a tape recorder
Fun and joke games
- Sentence Repeating
M: nothing
- Air Ride
M: board, blindfold
- William Tell
M: table tennis ball, bottle, water pistol or water nozzle
- The Mirror Game
M: plates, rubs
- The Ten Cent Game
M: bowl, coin
- The Tower
M: chairs
Miscellaneous games and program ideas
- What’s My Job? (through pantomime or movements)
M: nothing
- Building and judging a snowman
M: snow
- Paid attention and listened?
M: nothing
- Homogeneity
M: nothing but a well prepared theme
- Tim likes … Tim does not like …
M: nothing
- Blowing off steam
M: nothing
- Aggression meeting
M: nothing
- Moat table tennis
M: 2 tables, tennis ball and rackets
- Summer Olympics: sprint
M: stop watch
- Throwing and shooting pebbles
M: pebbles
- Soap kicking
M: piece of soap, measuring tape
- The chickens are clucking
M: pieces of paper in the same quantity as the number of players. On the cards are pairs of animals
- Paper plane
M: paper
- The Christmas Rally
M: nothing (or well prepared list)
- Who would you do …..with?
M: paper, pencils
- Cheap billiards
M: rope, soft balls
- Round
M: table tennis, table tennis ball and rackets
- Beach volleyball
M: volleyball, volleyball net
- Summer Olympics: long jump
M: Sand pit or long jump pit, measuring tape.
- Summer Olympics: shot-put
M: Stone or iron shot puts for putting.
- Summer Olympics: distance throwing
M: ball, measuring tape
- Table football tournament
M: table soccer
- Billiard tournament
M: billiard table
- Subuteo tournament
M: Subuteo football with accessories.
- Aqueduct
M: plastic wrap, table tennis balls
- Indoor flip golf
M: plates, coins
- The camp patrol
M: Prepare the deliberate mistakes if necessary
- Table Tennis Ball Cup Tennis
M: table tennis balls, cups
- A Christmas photo hunt
M: Digital camera or photo handy and a well prepared list
- Water slide
M: stable plastic foil, water hose, water
- Santa Claus model
M: wrapping paper, shaving foam, sack material and red fabric
- Mice watch out – or mousetrap
M: lace, Actimel bottles or similar, bucket, dice
- Casino Royal
M: Roulette, poker cards, dice, casino decoration, gummi bears or sweets, stylish lighting.
- Car Race
M: Race track (Scalectrix or other make), alternative: remote control cars.
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