Gamebook

GAMEBOOK



CHILDRENS INTERNATIONAL SUMMER VILLAGES
NAMEGAMES

MY NAME IS…

Goal: Learn names
Materials: None
Time: 10 – 15 min.
Age: All
Persons: All
Preparation: None

Everybody sits in a circle and the first person starts by saying his name and an animal with the same first letter – and doing a gesture: Example: “Hi, I am Mike, the mouse” Then everybody says: “Hi Mike,the mouse” and do the gesture. Then the next person continues and so on.

There are many variations to this game…let the imagination tell you what to do.

NEWSPAPER GAME

Goal: Learn names
Materials: Newspapers
Time: 30 min.
Age: All
Persons: Groups of 10 people
Preparation: None

Divide the participants into groups of 10 people and give one person in the middle a newspaper. Someonesays a name and the person in the middle has to find that person and touch him on the knees with the newspaper, before that person calls out another name. If he does, the person in the middle looks for the new person and so on.

If the person is too slow, he becomes the person in the middle.

You have to say another persons name, before you sit down. If not, you can be touched and you are “it”CIRCLE OF FEELINGS

Goal: Learn names
Materials: None
Time: 10 min
Age: All
Persons: 10 – 30 persons
Preparation: None

Everybody stands in a circle. The first person walks in the middle and says his name in an aggressive way and moves back to the circle. Now everybody has to walk in the middle at the same time and say his name like he did – even the bodylanguage. Then the personwalks in the middle again and says his name softly, and they all have to do the same.

Then the next person does the same and everybody repeats. This goes on until everybody have said their name twice.

BALLOONS

Goal: Learn names
Materials: Balloons, pens, music
Time: 20 min
Age: All
Persons: All
Preparation: Yes

Preparation:
Blow up as many balloons as there are participants andwrite each name on the balloons.

Activity:
The music starts and everybody walks around, hitting the balloons. When the music stops, each participants has to crab a balloon, read the name and find that person.

RUNNING-GAMES

CATS AND MICE

Goal: Have fun
Materials: Big space
Time: 30 min
Age: All
Persons: All
Preparation: None

You stand in couples, with one arm around yourpartners arm. 2 participants are chosen to be a cat and a mouse. The cat has to catch the mouse and they run around the other participants. The mouse can get a hold of an arm form one of the couples. Then the cat turns into a mouse and the person standing next to the person who were just crabbed, are now the cat and has to catch the mouse.

If the cat catches the mouse, they swap positions.AMOEBA

Goal: Have fun
Materials: None
Time: 10 min
Age: 9 +
Persons: All
Preparation: None

Human Being = acting normal
Monkey = jumping around and sounds like a monkey
Rabbit = the hands acts as ears, going up and down
Snake = Puts 2 fingers on the forehead and sounds like a snake
Amoeba = “Swims” around

In the beginning, everybody are amoebas. The participants goes toanother one of it’s kind and makes “Paper, scissors, stone”. The winner goes one step up the ladder – the looser goes one step down. When half of the people are humans, the game stops

MONUMENT

Goal: Have fun
Materials: Cans or bottles
Time: 10 min
Age: All
Persons: All
Preparation: None

Divide the participants into groups of 10 – 12 people and make them form a circle, holding hands.In the middle, you place a “monument” made of cans or bottles. They now have to pull or push each other, so that someone else stumbles into the monument.

HOSPITAL GAME

Goal: Have fun and work together
Materials: Big space
Time: 30 min
Age: All
Persons: All
Preparation: None

Use a big field and make 2 of the sides hospitals. They are freezones. Select 4 – 5 people – they are...