All you need is one of those pool noodles and a leader who can tread water. Simply position a leader in the pool and have them hold the noodle at a predetermined distance from the diving board. Then one by one have the students jump over noodle (from the diving board into the water). After reach round the leader...
Preparation: Pens and lots of paper!The only thing you need for this game is a pen and a half of a sheet of piece paper for each student. Begin by handing the first student a random sentence on a piece of paper. The first student will then sketch their interpretation of that sentence down for the next person. Once...
Have all your students stand up and find a partner. They stand back to back and on "1,2,3, Go!" they stand on one foot and turn around (usually by jumping/hoping). Whoever loses balance and puts their other foot on the ground (or falls over) first loses. Partners can bump into each other, push, etc. The winners find new partners...
Before students arrive use duct tape to make different shapes on the floor (star, square, triangle, rectangle, deck 1, deck 2, and of course a toilet seat shaped one).Have names for all the decks (I usually just call them the shapes so the students don't get too confused. The toilet seat one is called poop deck).To make deck 1 and...
Have everyone stand in a circle. Players put their hands in front of them in a "praying" position, around chest height. Everyone bows.Pick a starting player and then continue to go in a clockwise direction (they must remember the order they go in because it doesn't take long for them to not be in a circle anymore). The ninjas...
This is simple to play and only needs an announcer and some music (though the music is optional). Get your entire group to link their arms around another’s shoulders wherever they are sitting.Have the announcer say to everyone, “Everybody must move in the same direction when I say what that direction is. For instance, if I say, "Left" then...
This is a really fun game that is also very, very simple to play. You need zero supplies or preparation! Told ya it was simple. Here’s what you do.Choose one student to go out of the room and way out of ear shot. While that student is gone (with an adult volunteer…just to make sure), you stand in front...