This game was originally called “Communist Church” credited to Jason Gross, but attitudes shift and it’s not just Christianity that is persecuted. Essentially it’s a game to put across what it feels like to have to meet in secret because of your religious beliefs. Set up: Needs to be...
Wide games
Any game that typically played outdoors that uses a very wide space to play in (eg field or greater)
Night Wide Games
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe There’s something about doing games and activities at night in the dark that makes it just that all the more exciting for children and youth. However if you are organising or taking part in any outdoor night...
Search and Rescue (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Equipment A number of differently coloured straws (one colour for each team) + some ‘bonus’ straws coloured black and/or some that have been covered in luminous paint. Open playing field, or similar area with short grass. Optional:...
Hunt the Leader (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Use a limited area of fields and/or woodland. Leaders can move freely around if they wish (advisable). Players have to collect signatures from each leader, but the objective is to collect as many signatures as possible in...
Elves, Wizards and Giants (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Equipment: Life-bands or life tokens A number of tokens marked either Elf, Wizard or Giant Play: Split the group into two teams. Either create a base for each team of allow each team to find and make...
Raiders (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Equipment: Life bands or other token (e.g. potato see Fools Gold) Play: Establish 3 bases some distance from each other and divide into 2 relatively equal teams the “Raiders” and the “Runners” (number of players in each...
Human Pac Man (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Sent in by Anne Crotty It is fun watching the reaction when a player is being escorted to jail and the roles change! A combination of Crows and Cranes and Leader Hunt. 4-5 leaders hide around the...
“Big Foot” (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe (c) Kit Logan, 2001 – licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5 License. A more complex wide game for teens and older children. Big Foot is based on the idea and legend of the “Sasquatch” and an original...
Witch in the Woods (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe Simple game that requires a playing area with a number of places to hide making it ideal for playing as a wide game… particularly at night. Establish a base, one person is chosen to be the tagger...
Find the Leader (Wide Game)
With any wide game always bear in mind rules for keeping safe This one I know used to be played in and around Bakewell by the youth staying there on church houseparty holidays. One definitely for older youth and not always as easy as it sounds! Players are divided...