Round the Circle

Number of Players
Ideally 12+

You Will Need
A Ball

How to Play
Split the children into two equal teams. The first teams line up in a straight line. The second team form a circle with one of the children in the centre of this circle. On your word the game begins.

LINE TEAM: the first child of the lined up team run around the circle team and back to the next person in line and so on until all members of the line team have all run.

CIRCLE TEAM: the child in the circle team throws the ball to one of the other children in the circle and they then throw it back to the centre child. The thrower repeats this and throws the ball to the next child in the circle and so on until the line team have all run round the circle team.

For each successful throw and return the circle team score one point.

The teams then switch roles and repeat the game. The team who scores the most points wins.

Wink Murder

Number of Players
Any number, but preferably eight or above

You Will Need
No materials needed


How to Play
The children sit around in a circle. One child is chosen as the 'Dectective' and leaves the room. Whilst out of the room, another child is chosen as the 'Murderer'. The detective returns and stands in the middle of the circle of children. When the detective is not looking the murderer 'winks' at his victim how dramatically dies and falls backwards (the more dramatic the better). The murderer keeps on wink murdering until the detective works out who's done it. Take it in turns for children to be detective and murderer. The winner is the murderer who kills the most vicims!

Where's your partner?

Number Of Players
Any even number from four and above

You Will Need
A piece of paper for each individual player which you will need to write a name on.

Preparation
Best to write the names down before playing this game.

How To Play
You will need to prepare the cards before playing this game. On half of the cards write down one half of a famous partnership. Then on the other half write the other member of the partnership.Mix the cards up and then each child picks a card. Reads it without anyone else seeing it.

The children must then go around the room asking questions and seeking out their partner without saying the partner name they are looking.

For instance, if a child had salt you couldn't say "Where's Pepper". Rather they could say "Does any one here make you sneeze".

The first couple to pair up are the winners. This is quite a good game as an ice breaker if all of the children in the party don't know each other.

Suggested Partners
Tom & Jerry
Salt & Pepper
Ant & Dec
Cheese & Onion
Hide & Seek
Night & Day
Adam & Eve
Jack & Jill

The Hibernation Game

Number of Players
Anything from 10+

Required to play game
Blanket large enough to cover a child

How to Play
Children run around. The leader then shouts 'Hibinate'. The children must curl into a ball with their eyes shut and pretend to be a winter animal hibernating. The leader then covers one of the children then shouts 'Springtime'. All the children, except the child covered by the blanket, 'wake up' and have to guess who is still hibernating.

Please this a few times giving a different child a go at being the sleeping animal.