Quick Camp Skits

You will need four campers to do this one. Two Muggers, victim, and a narrator. Plus loose pocket change, watch and /or valuables The skit begins with the narrator saying that this is a typical day in NYC. At that point two campers (older/bigger) enter from stage left, one from stage right, and leisurely walk past each other to the …

One camper walks out and one hides with the “board”. The first camper acts like he is calling the “Star Trek” ship with the flip walkie talkie and says “Beam me a board!” Then the second camper tosses the board onto stage and the first camper says “Thank you” and carries the board away (or if at a campfire, adds …

There are endless combinations for Black Bart skits, all revolving around the basic plot of the hero chasing Black Bart… Ultimately, the hero and Black Bart come face to face. Black Bart is cornered, building up the tension. Destroy it with the anticlimactic line of: “You get the ping pong ball and I’ll get the paddles and I’ll meet you …

Table, sign that says brain store To make the campers and counselors laugh This is a skit for the campers to do with the help of counselors. There will be a table with a sign that says brain store, and one camper will be the clerk. Another camper will come up and ask the clerk for counselor #1’s brain. The …

A ladder and a suitcase First person walks in with a suitcase. Second person is already on stage asks where the first is going and the first person’s reply is that he is going to court. A little while later he comes in with the case and a ladder. This time he says that he’s taking his case to a …

Make sure that everyone has a different item and the person with the paper is always last. to let everybody go and to let him/her to run out when they get the paper. The object is to have a very dramatic person who keeps on saying “Do you have it? Do you have it?” while walking back in forth in …

The leader announces that he has noticed an echo and he is going to try it out (also could be on a hike overlooking a canyon). The following is a dialogue between the leader and the echo – a person out of the room or out of sight. Leader: Hello Echo: Hello Leader: Cheese Echo: Cheese Leader: Bologna Echo: (silence) …

One person goes along a wall listening and listening. Others come along and ask him what he is doing. He says dramatically, “Listen,” and the others do. One of them says, “I don’t hear anything”, in a disgusted voice. “LISTEN”, he says more dramatically and they listen some more. Again someone says, “I don’t hear anything.” The original listener says, …

The instrument consists of several kneeling performers. The player strikes each on the head with a fake mallet or his fist as if playing a xylophone. Each player utters a single note when struck. Simple songs such as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” can be played this way.

Do this one at night around the campfire or be sure to explain to the audience that it takes place at night. First boy searches the ground around the campfire. Second boy: “What are you looking for; maybe I can help you find it. First boy: “I dropped my favorite marble.” Second boy: “Where were you standing when you dropped …

Setting is the office of a famous psychiatrist. He is seated behind a table. Nurse brings in a patient with a flowerpot on his head. Another patient enters and runs around, waving his arms as if flying. Next patient keeps brushing his clothes and complains about bugs crawling on him. Doctor says: “For heaven’s sake, don’t brush them off on …

A prisoner is brought before a judge. The policeman says that he caught him red-handed. Judge asks if it is true and the prisoner says, “Well, maybe so and maybe not”. The prisoner is asked if he has stolen before and he replies, “Mmmm … now & then”. Judge, impatient now, asks where he stole these things and the prisoner …

Everybody lines up, with a leader in the front. The leader starts it off: “We walk-ski!” As they walk the leader says, “One-ski, two-ski, three-ski, four-ski” The person in the back of the line sneezes, “Achoo-ski!” Leader: “Stop-ski!” Leader turns to the person behind them. Leader: “You sneeze-ski?” Person: “No-ski.” Leader: “You lie-ski?” Person: “No-ski…” Leader: “You die-ski.” Leader pretend-shoots …

Easiest skit in the world Person 1 comes to the stage and crouches as if to imply sitting, with their hands on an imaginary steering wheel, person 2 comes and says “whatcha doing?” Person 1 replies “sitting in the invisible van” Person 2 says “I think I will join you” person 3 comes up and repeats similar introductions, gets a …

camper comes in and says, “the life of a rain drop”, and then throws his arms in the air and yells “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH”. he then throws him/herself to the ground while saying “splat”.

Campers all have to be in a single group. This is best done spread out over the entire campfire. This skit is done several times over the course of your campfire, using one or several pairs of counselors. The basis of this skit is getting each other wet with buckets, pitchers or bowls of water. The two counselors, each with …