Before starting prepare in advance a largish ball such as a blow-up beach-ball or a bouncy one and write questions on it using a marker pen. E.g. What’s your favourite colour, favourite food, favourite cartoon, etc. When you start the game throw the ball to any person when they...
Ball games
Catch the ball, Head the ball
Arrange all participants in a circle with the thrower in the middle. Throw the ball to each player in turn with instruction to either catch the ball or head it back, as you throw the ball to them. BUT they have to complete the opposite. e.g. If they are...
Spider Ball
Played: FISH Club, Ewell, Surrey Use a large enclosed space. Start with two or three throwers. Basic dodgeball rules in that players may move around anywhere within this space. Non-team version: One or two players start as the taggers/throwers. Aiming to hit below the waist or below the knee...
Rollerball
Submitted by Victoria Crick. Played at Blenheim High School, Epsom Can be played as a team or non-team game and uses small foam balls. Object of the game is for a player to attempt to run between two lines of players from a starting position to a wall or...
Protect the President
Submitted by J. Hart Players again stand in a large circle with two people in the middle. One person in the middle is the President, the other is the Bodyguard. Those standing in the circle try to hit the president with the soft ball. The bodyguard may do anything...
Team Circle Dodge Ball
One team stand within a defined space/circle, the other team stand on the outside and have to knock out the team in the area by hitting them with the ball below the knee. by
Team Dodge Ball
Divide into even teams (or evenly matched!). Each team standing in one half of a court. Teams then take it in turns to throw a soft ball at the other team from their side. Players when hit below the knee either sit down where they are or join the...
Octopus
aka 'Witches Glue Pot' Play as with dodge ball, but instead of sitting out to the side players have to sit down where they were standing when they were tagged out. From there, they can help with the tagging of any players who get close enough to be touched....
Hostage Dodge Ball
A simple dodge ball game designed to provoke discussion about being hostage. 1 player is the Captor and chooses 3 other players to become hostages. All other players get to throw the ball. The object of the game is to eliminate the Captor by hitting them with ball below...
Gagaball
Supplied by Rachel Gilchrist Use a beach ball. Everybody puts 1 hand behind them and use the free hand to hit the ball away from themselves and at other players. If you get hit below the belly button (navel) you leave the game to stand in a jail area....