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Cooperation Games

Cooperation Games
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Some cooperation games, as well as communication games, as the name already says, are games to encourage cooperation. Whether communication games or coordination games are played with the youth group, all have one thing in common: The cooperation within the team is important, so that the whole team reaches its destination. If a group is able to communicate well with each other, to coordinate properly and everyone behaves cooperatively, then the youth group will grow and become capable of a real teamwork.

Cooperation means to cooperate with other people towards a common goal. Who does not learn that in childhood, will have it much harder later in life.

To promote the cooperation of the group members, all games are appropriate where the participants have to rely on each other or where they are dependent on each other. The best example of this is the relay race from the field of sports. Only if there is genuine cooperation and all participants are matched well together, they ultimately will reach the desired success.

What should I look out for?

It is important to make sure that the cooperation of the group members is divided equally. That means everyone should take on one passive and one active role within the team. The one who holds the active role also has the say. In other words, he is the one, telling the others what to do. The passive role is designed so that the group members carry out the instructions and thus cooperate with the active part.

Why is cooperation so crucial?

Cooperation Games
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Especially later in your professional life, almost nothing goes without a degree of collaboration. Only when all employees within a company or a department pull together, a relevant target can be achieved.

But of course, cooperation can also be a lot of fun. Sports games are predestined for that. For example, think of outdoor games in summer or even water games at the lake or the sea.

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  1. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: rope or chalkCrossed roundabout

    Run around inside a figure of 8 without touching each other.

  2. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: ropeRope shapes

    The group makes a shape using a rope while blindfolded and without talking.

  3. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: meter stickMeter stick

    In this co-operation game, the whole group is only allowed to touch a meter stick with one stretched out finger.

  4. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: 2 boards with ropesCo-ordination

    The player lifts on leg, the group pulls the board along a little and the player puts his leg down again.

  5. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: different building or craft materialBuilding

    The group can build something using the materials, but speaking is not allowed.

  6. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: rope, 2 buckets, waterBucket co-ordination

    A bucket is moved with 4 ropes to fill water into a tub.

  7. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Ropes, small objectAcid lake

    An object is to get an object out of a big circle without actually stepping into the circle.

  8. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Eggs, tape, straws, paper, string, scissorsEgg flight

    Eggs drop: prepare an egg and let it fall to the ground without breaking it.

  9. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: noneGroup Twister

    The group has only so many options to touch the ground

  10. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Various items such as stuffed animals, scarves, trousersSave the animals

    The objective is to collect as many as possible objects and link them together to a long chain. Scarves and trousers are great for it.

  11. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: BlindfoldsHurdle course blindfolded

    The blindfolded kid has to navigate to the finishing line by listening to the clapping of the other kids.

  12. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: RopeTightrope

    A 1.5m high tightrope must be overstepped without touching it, while at the same time not losing physical contact with the group either.

  13. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: NoneLetting yourself go

    The kids have to catch each other.

  14. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Long Gym BenchBalancing on benches

    Balancing across a bench

  15. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: NonePolar expedition

    Putting on as many as possible clothes.

  16. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Sheets of A4 paperA walk in Space

    Completing a hurdle course without stepping aside.

  17. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Rope and two chairsOver the cord

    All kids are holding hands while overstepping or crawling under a rope

  18. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Carpet tilesThe swamp monster

    Crossing the swamp (floor) just on carpet tiles.

  19. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Building materialsBuilding silently

    No one can say a word while they are building or crafting something with the material they were given

  20. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Toothpicks, strings, glue (if required)The raft

    Building a raft from toothpicks

  21. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Rod or barBalancing a rod

    In a group effort, the kids balance a rod on one finger.

  22. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: BlindfoldsLabyrinth

    One kid gets blindfolded while the other kids navigate him through a maze.

  23. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: NoneA number game

    Taking turns in counting to 30

  24. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Sturdy chairsOrder must be restored

    All kids are standing on their chairs and have to regroup

  25. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: BlindfoldsNoisy Forest

    In this game, each player represents a hurdle. One kid, however, has to walk from one end of the room to the other, without touching any other kid.

  26. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Large clothTurning the cloth

    All kids are standing on a cloth which has to be turned around without anybody stepping off it

  27. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: BlindfoldsSnake run

    Telling a thrilling story while walking blindfolded through the terrain.

  28. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: NoneCome closer

    Slowly approaching one another. Learning about personal space and being able to talk about it.

  29. timeplacecategoryPersonspreparation timeMaterial: Light object, for example, a stuffed animalA conveyor belt with a different

    Players imitate a conveyor belt


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