7 fun games to play with kids

Hello everyone!

I were volunteer in Sicily for amazing and fun 10 months, where I had opportunity not just to learn new language and meet people, but also travel around this beautiful and mostly hot (at least for latvians) island. It is something what I will remember many years after! But my biggest gain, for sure, is my EVS family - I couldn’t do it without their help. Gracie, ragazzi!

My project activities were in youth centre, where children spend their time after school play games, study and just chat with friends. It was a bit challenging because of language, mentality and other factors, but that’s why I think it is important to prepare yourself. This small toolkit will help for that! You will have 7 fun games for the last momentno materials, niente!

Okey, maybe you need kids who will play them. ŕŤƒ

1, 2, 3 Great energizer for warming up! up!

First step- everyone need to find a pair and stand facing each other. Then they will count one by one in pairs 1,2,3 and continue after again.

After some time, you switch number 1 with squat, so now it will be: squat, 2, 3, squat, 2, 3…

Keep going for a moment! Then, switch number 2 with jumping. Now it will look like - squat, jumping, 3, squat,…

You got an idea, right? ૃ But it doesn’t end here- you still need to switch number 3 and it will be clap!

Now everyone should do - squat, jumping, clap - and wake up!

Make an eye contact!

This is really easy game but at the same time really fun!

Everyone should stand in circle, and there is one person in the middle. Persons who stands in circle should make an eye contact with somebody from circle and switch places. Main goal for the person inside is to get a free place before they switch! The one who doesn’t have place now is the insider and trying to get place.

It can be made really easy or hard, it depends on players.

Big, fat spiders

One of the players starts game with easy question, for example - What would you like to eat for dinner?

Other person answers - Big, fat spiders!

Again someone asks - With what you brush your hair?

Next one answers - Big, fat spiders!

Main goal of game is to not laugh. Everyone who breaks this rule, are out. So stay focused!

MuMu-uu…Beuu…Be-ee!

Participants should stay faced each to other.

Each one imagines animal they want to be and mimics sounds of them, so others know what they are. (be-ee, mjau, mu-uu, vau-vau, ruk-ruk,..)

First one needs to say his sound and one other what they can think of, for example - Be-ee! Vau-Vau! The one who has imagined second sound needs to do the same, - Vau-vau! Mu-uu!

Game keeps going on, till you decide to finish.

Oh… And if somebody makes sound nobody imagined or say them in incorrect order, they finish game.

Have fun!

Mu-uu

Funny faces

Participants should stand facing each other.

First player shows some face/emotion, for exampleshocked!

Next one shows previous face/emotion, and adds his own, for example - shocked, blink two times!

Everyone keeps going with this order - show previous ones and then add his own.

The ones, who forget some face or show them in different order, loose and other ones keep going without them.

What are you doing?

The faster you play this game, the better!

Players stand in circle. First one starts to demonstrate some action, for example, singing.

Next one asks question - What are you doing?

First one reply with something he is not actually doingI’m brushing my hair!

Second one starts to do action first one just said.

Now the third asks to second one - what are you doing? And second one answers with something he is not doing.

Game goes on and on, till there is one winner. If you make mistake, you are out.

Hypnotizator In this game more participants is better!

One of them should be hypnotizator, while one more person will be detective.

Detctive should go out of room, while other ones choose hypnotizator and stand in circle. Then detective comes back.

When hypnotizator blinks to someone, he need to fall on the ground. After he blinks to next person. Goal for detective is to find out who is hypnotizator before everyone is under hypnoze.

If detective found out who it is, the hypnotizator stays as detective, if not, detective is same person also in next round.

Voila!

This publication is the result of Evelina Stefane’s volunteering experience within the European Voluntary Service project “Gaining from volunteering” (ref. code 2016-2-IT03-KA105-009047) in the frame of Erasmus+ Programme Key Action 1 funded by European Commission.

The European Commission support to the project, and production of this toolkit, does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.