Quick and Easy Camp Games

Present the clues to the group. They can ask only yes or no questions to try to solve the mystery. Clue: A man pushes his car in front of a hotel, and say ‰ÛÏI’m broke and I’m out!‰Û What happened? Answer: He is playing monopoly.

Present the clues to the group. They can ask only yes or no questions to try to solve the mystery. Clue: A body is found in the middle of a field with a ring on his finger. How did he die? Answer: The ring is a rip cord, but the parachute didn’t open.

Present the clues to the group. They can ask only yes or no questions to try to solve the mystery. Clue: Two men go to visit a female friend. She offers them soft drinks, which they accept. The drinks are identical in every way. One of the men dies after drinking his drink, but the other man does not. Why …

Present the clues to the group. They can ask only yes or no questions to try to solve the mystery. Clue: I want to go home, but the man in the mask won’t let me. Who is the man in the mask? Answer: A baseball catcher

Present the clues to the group. They can ask only yes or no questions to try to solve the mystery. Clue: Fifty people are in a cabin having a snack. Now they are all dead. What happened? Answer: It was an airplane cabin and the plane crashed.

Present the clues to the group. They can ask only yes or no questions to try to solve the mystery. Clue: One week after visiting a park a woman calls the police to report a murder. What happened? Answer: The body was undetected until it showed up in some pictures she took which had to be developed.

Present the clues to the group. They can ask only yes or no questions to try to solve the mystery. Clue: A man is found hung in an empty room, locked from the inside, with a puddle on the floor. What happened? Answer: The man stood on block of ice, which hung him as it melted.

Present the clues to the group. They can ask only yes or no questions to try to solve the mystery. Clue: A woman leaves her friend’s room and pushes the button for the elevator. The doors opened part-way then stopped, and her friend was dead. What happened? Answer: This takes place in a hospital where the electricity failed, so the …

Present the clues to the group. They can ask only yes or no questions to try to solve the mystery. Clue: The music stopped and the man died. What happened? Answer: The man was a blind tight-rope walker who used the music to signal when he was at the end of the rope. The music finished early and he fell …

Get the kids thinking. Give a description of a crime scene and the students have to figure out what happened by asking only yes or no questions. Description: Joe is dead in a room. There are three sets of tracks leading into the room and two sets of tracks leading out of the room. There is a stain on the …

Standing in front of the group, the leader passes her hands in a back and forth motion for all to see. Everyone must clap at the exact moment the hands pass each other. If they are early, late, or don’t do it at all, they are out. If the leader stops before the hands pass, whoever claps is out. Last …

Sit in a circle with one camper in the middle that hides his eyes while the others pass a passable object. When the center camper says “Stop” the person with the object names a letter and passest the object. The middle camper then has to name three foods/toys/names etc‰Û_ that start with that letter before the object gets back to …

Have the group either walking around in a certain area or simply standing. Then call out a number (that number usually depends on the size of the group) whatever that number is will be the size of group they will put themselves into. If they are left without a group they then sit out.

1,1,2,2 Have campers form a circle. Each camper is given a number starting with one and ending with the last person. Campers will be patting their lap and clapping their hands to a 4 part beat. The following chant can be used to learn the beat. 2 pats to lap-‰ÛÏAre you ready..2 claps-Let’s go!‰Û 2 pats on the lap-Yes were …

Players sit or stand in a circle, and “It” is in the middle. He points his finger at someone in the circle and says either “Pipety-pop,” or “Popety-pip.” If Pipety-pop is said then the player that is pointed at must say pip before the entire phrase is said by the pointer. For Popety-pip, the person must say pop before the …

Form a circle and clasp hands. An object such as a tin can or a rock is placed in the center. The object of the game is to mill around and make one of the players touch the object. The player may be eliminated the first time he touches the object or the second or third time.

There are two draw positions in this game. The first is with both hands out, forefingers extended, as if you’re a two-gun sheriff. The second is with both hands up, as if surrendering. Everyone draws at once by slapping both hands on their knees, then quickly showing a position. If they match the leader’s hand position, they’ve lost. If they’ve …

All the kids have to be completely silent. Anybody who makes noise is out. Your job is to try to get them to talk. Try asking questions to throw them off guard and to get them to talk.

In this game, one person plays the ‰Û÷stop light’ and the rest try to sneak up on them. At the start, all the children form a line about 15 feet away from the stoplight. The stoplight faces away from the line of kids and say ‰Û÷green light’. At this point the kids are allowed to move toward the stoplight. At …

Two sticks or pencils, or a pair of scissors. Scissors is a neat trick to have in your bag for those down times when everyone is getting bored. Unfortunately, you can not do it more than once with the same group. If you do not have a pair of scissors, two sticks, two pencils or anything which can simulate open …

This game is intended for a large group of kids and/or adults, the more the better. The group sits in a large circle. One person starts the game by whispering a short message into the ear of the person sitter to the right of them. The message is whispered once, then the new messenger passes the message on to the …

Explains itself really. You can only tig (tag) someone if they are on the ground. You are not aloud to tig your ‘butcher’ (the person who makes you ‘it’). And you can only stay off ground for 10-15 seconds (decided before the game).

Twiddle each other’s thumbs. Can be done in pairs or a circle. This simple, but outrageously funny game is just a sample of Bernie DeKoven’s outstanding work in the field of play! For more of Bernie’s work, visit: Bernie’s Potluck Page Junkyard Sports Hall of Fame Deep Fun Blog

Have all the kids stand up. You secretly think of one. The kids then ask any Yes or No questions, for instance, “Is it a boy?” If the answer is “No”, all in that category (for instance, all boys) sit down. All the kids can ask questions, even if they’re sitting down. Go until the kids have figured out who …