Games!

Train Tag Game
“IT” is a locomotive and all other players are runaway cars. When the locomotive tags a car, they boy tagged hooks onto the locomotive by holding onto his waist. Then next one tagged hooks onto the last car in line and so on until the train is completed.

STRINGER
Materials: One pipe cleaner per team and buttons or beads for each team
Each team has a pipe cleaner and a number of beads. One person strings a bead or button and then hands it to the next player. This continues until one team finishes and says, “We did our best!”.

Recycled Lid Frisbee Toss Game
Collect plastic lids from yogurt, margarine, coffee cans etc for this game. Set up two target circles with string and divide the boys into two teams. Mark the lids with two different letters to signify each team (B and G for Blues and Golds, etc) One point for each hit target and one point taken away for hitting the opposing team’s target.

Orbiter
 It is like musical chairs. There is one fewer chairs than boys. The extra boy is the Sun. The other boys are each assigned a planet (Mars, Jupiter, etc.) The sun orbits around the chairs calling out the names of planets. The planet (boy) called gets up and walks (orbits) around the chairs with the sun. When all the planets are orbitting, the den leader yells Blast Off. All the boys scramble for a chair. The one left standing becomes the Sun.

Animal Charades
Boys pick a slip of paper from a hat that has a name of an animal on it. Then they act out the animal by either making the animal sound or acting like the animal or both.
Ideas include: bear, dog, snake, bee, cat, tiger, butterfly, bird, monkey, lion, elephant, wolf etc.

Human Knot Each person grabs hands with two different people across a circle. Group works to untangle itself. (leadership, everyone important.

Blanket Volleyball Divide group into two teams, each with a blanket held like a parachute. Toss in an object that is volleyed from team to team using the blanket for propulsion. Can add multiple objects..
More to come!