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Sugar towers
Equipment: Packets of sugar cubes
The team has to try and build as high a tower as possible in the time. The tower can be one cube wide or several but the important thing is how many cubes tall the tower is.
Name the...
Equipment: Sheet of characters, answer sheet
Print about 25 pictures of cartoon characters or characters from TV / Films (eg characters from Monsters Inc., Ben 10 etc.). The team has to guess as many of the characters as possible in the time. You could use almost anything – flags, football strips, or sports stars.
Putting challenge
Equipment: Putter, golf balls, indoor putting mat
The team line up behind the ‘tee’ and take it in turns to try and putt the golf ball into the hole.
Limbo
Equipment: A rope
Get two leaders to hold a rope at chest height and get the kids to go under one at a time. If anyone is able to go under (they should all be able to at this height) then lower the rope by about 20cm. Keep repeating until time is up. The team that can go the lowest in the time wins.
Pairs
Equipment: Set of (preferably giant) cards From a deck of cards select the spades and clubs (26 cards). Shuffle the cards and place them face down on a table. Each member of the team will take it in turns to try and find a pair. If they find a pair they get another go, if not it passes on to the next person. If they somehow get all 13 pairs shuffle the cards and start again. The team that finds the most pairs in the time wins.
Football challenge
Equipment: A football, cones Place a few cones about 50cm apart in a line and at the end place a goal (this could just be two cones about a metre apart). The kids line up at the start and take it in turns to dribble around the cones and score in the goal.
Bouncy ball
Equipment: A small bucket, lots of bouncy balls
Get the kids to line up about two metres away from a small bucket. The team takes it in turns to try and throw the bouncy ball in the bucket, but it must bounce at least once before it goes in. Place a sponge at the bottom of the bucket to stop it bouncing out.
Find the word
Equipment: Pens and paper
Turn over a word or phrase to show the team eg ‘Easter Sunday’. The team then has to make as many smaller words as they can using the letters in ‘Easter Sunday’, eg east, sun, day, yard, turn. The team that finds the most words wins, and you can award bonus points for longer words.
