Touch & Freeze

Name: Touch & Freeze
Number of players: 10-20
Age: 5-10 (though older players may like it too)
Necessary equipment: none

How to play

• Players sit in a circle, with one person sitting in the middle.
• All the players in the circle must place one finger on the person in the middle of the circle. (Depending on the maturity of the players, rules may be needed.)
• When the supervisor calls "Touch and freeze!" the person in the middle must try and tag as many players as possible without moving from his/her spot.
• Players that are caught sit in the middle with the first player, back-to-back.
• Game continues until no players are left on the outside.

Where Do You Come From?

Name: Where Do You Come From?
Number of Players: 10+
Age: 7+
Necessary equipment: none

How to Play

• Split the group into two even teams, behind 2 'home lines' that are 5-10 metres apart.
• Team 1 starts ''whisper counting".
• Team 2 must decide on a country, and an action that comes from that country.
• When they are ready, they stand facing Team 1.
• Team 1 calls out, "Where do you come from?" and takes a few steps forward.
• Team 2 calls out, "We come from [eg. America]!" and takes a few steps forward.
• Team 1 calls out, "What do you do there?" and takes a few steps forward, until they are about 1 -2 metres from Team 2.
• Team 2 says, "Something starting with [eg. B]" and mimes the action that the chose.
• Team 1 must guess the action that they are miming.
• If they guess correctly, they must chase members of Team 2 and try and catch them before they are behind their home line.
• Any players that they tag must join Team 1.
• The roles of the teams now swap.
• The game ends if one team captures all the players from the other team.

People to People

Name: People to People
Number of players: 15+
Age: 5+
Necessary equipment: none

How to Play

• Players starts in partners, with one person in the centre. (The facilitator may have to step in as this game requires an odd number of players.)
• The person in the centre calls out instructions such as "back to back", "elbow to knee", "head to shoulder".
• The partners must carry out the instruction by placing the two named body parts together. (Obviously there is potential here for inappropriate combinations; the maturity of the players needs to be considered!)
• After a few instructions, the player in the centre calls, "people to people!"
• All players must run around the circle to find a new partner. The player in the middle must also find a partner.
• The player who ends up without a partner stands in the centre and begins the process again.

This game is self-replicating and generally requires little input from the facilitator. It can be used as an excellent 'get to know you' game, where players must introduce themselves to their new partner before the next round can begin.

Bump Tag

Name: Bump Tag (or Bump)
Number of players: 15+
Age group: 7+
Necessary equipment: none

How to play

• Get the players into pairs.
• Spread the pairs out in the playing area. Pairs must link arms.
• Split up one pair, and make one person the chaser and one person the chasee.
• The aim is for the chaser to catch the chasee.
• At any time, the chasee can "bump" into one of the pairs in the playing area.
• If the pair is "bumped" from the right, then the person on the left of the pair becomes the chasee, and vice versa.
• The original chasee must then link up with the person in the pair who is left to create a new pair.
• When the chaser catches the chasee, the roles are reversed.