What’s a fun camp without games to play? Camping experience for kids could be taken to a next level with these amazing and challenging fun camping games for kids to play. Kids love to play in groups and compete with each other, learning something every minute of the camp.
Here Is a List of Brilliant Games to Play:
1. Becky’s Cube Challenge:
This sparkling activity is an excellent play for summer camp games, where the kids would need a cube, water and water toys. Kids stand in a row facing the same direction. Each kid is given a cube. The first child puts their toy in the bucket and fills the pail with water. The kid now has to tip the bucket back over their head such that the next child in the row must catch as much water as possible and they toy along. Now the second one again does the same as the previous one, to put the toy in the bucket and dump the bucket over the head to the back and it goes on.
2. Sack Race:
You can always play this fun game with any age group, turns out fun. A camping game for kids where all you need is a number of sack (the number should equal or could be more than the number of kids) and space to play. You can always use a pillow cover instead of the sac which might be difficult to get. Have the kids to stand in a row (start line) and distribute the sac/ pillow cover. Ask them to jump into it. The rules of the game is very simple, has to be a race while they hop inside the sac. The one to finish the first wins.
3. Passing the Water:
A fun camp games for kids where they sit in a row facing the same direction one after the other. The first and the last camper have a bucket. The one to sit in the front has a bucket full of water and a cup and the last one’s bucket is empty. The first person fills the cup with water and passes it to the next person behind over the head. The second person does the same by passing it to the third over the head.
The last person needs to empty the cup in the empty bucket provided. The motive is to see the coordination and teamwork to empty the front bucket into the last one. You can always divide the campers into teams and play this game as a competition to see who passes the maximum water in minimum time without spilling it much. It is a fun and learning game for the kids.
4. Push the Ball:
Every kid is given a ball of their own. All stand in a line (Start line) and once the organizer says go, they have to bend and push the ball with their head. Touching the ball with their hands is not allowed. The one to push the ball with their head while keeping it on the ground towards the end line wins. A unique camping game for kids which they have fun playing and others have fun watching.
5. Balance the Ball:
Amongst very favorite kids camping games where you divide the players into a pair of 2 each. The job of the two would be to race to the finish line, however, while balancing a ball between them. The players must place a ball which needs to be touching only their back and balanced as shown in the picture. Would this not require a lot of coordination? The best prop to use here would be the exercise balls for the kids to have fun with camping games.
6. Thread the Hula Hoop:
A simple yet full a fun game where you need to thread the hula-hoop. The chain of kids would be the thread here. For this game, divide the kids into teams with each team having a minimum of 5 players. Give a hula-hoop to each team and have them to stand in a row holding each other’s hand as shown in the picture.
When the timer goes on, they start together. The task here is to transfer the hula-hoop from the first person to the last one in the chain but without breaking the chain which means without disconnecting the hands held. It is fun to see how kids use their flexible body to go through the hula-hoop and transfer it until the end.
7. Basket the Ball:
We have played enough basketball, but here, the baskets and the ball is going to be placed differently. The game is a race again which has to be played in pairs of two. Divide the team members. Provide each player with a basket to tie around their waist such that the basket is in the front. A simple way could be to tie a scarf or a cloth around the basket and tie it around the waist. Each team is given one ball.
The teams have to start from the starting line and throw the ball into the team member’s basket and the other member picks it out and throws the ball to the first member’s basket while they also move towards the finish line. One of the players would be walking backward trying to catch and throw the ball towards the other. Look at the picture to get a better view of the game. These camping games that kids can play help them to improve their concentration power along with the coordination of the hands and their body together using all their body parts.
8. Big Foot Relay:
Turn a simple shoe box into a fun game. This camping game for kids is fun to play with the show box around their feet and racing to the finish line. It helps them to discover all the sensory motor activities involved in the game. Simply user a cutter to make a hole such that the kid’s feet can be inserted. Have multiple made of this kind and make the kids wear it and race to victory.
9. The Sponge Dart Game:
This is one of the simplest games to play at camp for kids. Make circular markings on the ground with a chalk or a rope while you are in a grassy area. Give pointers to each concentric circle as shown in the picture. Now, immerse pieces of sponge in water so that they are heavy and fun to throw.
From a demarked line, the kids have to stand and throw the sponge such that it lands at their desired score. Center of the circle being the maximum score, kids try to aim it. Bring in more challenges to this game by taking the throw line farther.
10. Egg and The Spoon Relay:
Divide the players into teams and have each of them given a spoon. Make sure the spoons are of a safe material that they could hold it with the help of their mouth. The first member of each team has to hold their spoons with their mouth and balance an egg on it. The first member’s race to a certain point where the other team member is standing ready with a spoon again. The first member passes the egg to the second member without having it fallen on the ground. If the egg falls, they have to start from the beginning. The last member holding the egg will rush towards the finish line to win this race.
11. The Cart Racing:
This camp game is fun to play where they are divided into teams of two each. One of the players stands while holding the legs of the other player with their hands. The second player’s hands are on the ground trying to balance. As the race starts, the players have to run (the first one with their legs of course whereas the second one with their hands). Look at the picture where you could see them making the right move to run towards the win.
12. The Limo Game:
You will need to make this arrangement with sticks such that you can variate the height of the bar for the challenging levels. Have the kids to undergo the stick levels as shown in the picture. A simple way of playing this could also be by using rope and tying it to two trees and passing through it. The challenge goes tougher each time the level of the rope or the stick is reduced.
13. The Hurdle Race:
A camping game for kids to play with the hurdles. Look at the picture, where you can use the basic items to make hurdles for kids. Fix the hula hoops in a fashion that the kids would have to jump through the hoops on the ground and reach their destination. You can also fix the hula-hoop perpendicular to the ground such that the kids have to duck down to pass through it making the race further challenging.
14. Three Legged Race:
A simple race where you have to play in teams. Have the campers choose their partners and play this game in twos. Tie their adjacent legs with a kerchief or a scarf and have them to race towards the winning line. The fun is to see them coordinate and play.
15. The Hopping Game:
Each team is given a balloon to start with. Players hop to the finish line with a balloon balanced between their knees. Although in this game, they can take away each other’s balloons and help their team to win. If a camper loses their balloon, it could be picked up and put back to race towards the end line. Always keep extra balls ready for this game as few might even burst in the middle of the game.
