Games ideas - quick games

The Knot

Everyone stands in a tight circle, closes their eyes, and puts their arms up in front of them, then joins hands with TWO different people opposite them in the circle. Then they have to open their eyes and untangle themselves without breaking hands, to form a circle.  Sometimes people end up back-to-front, or sometimes with 2 separate circles - this is fine.

The Mummy

Each team of three has toilet rolls.  Two people have to wrap the third person in bandages to look like a mummy. The winning team is the best-wrapped mummy in a set time, e.g. 3 minutes.

Port and Starboard

Girls run around. Leader calls out actions – last ones out. Calls
  Port - run to the left hand side of the room
  Starboard - run to the right hand side of the room
  Climb up the rigging – pretend to climb up a rope
  Down in the hold - crouch down
  Scrub the decks - pretend to scrub the decks
  On the look out - look out through the telescope
  Captain’s coming – salute
  Dance the hornpipe - dance a hornpipe
  Ship's sinking - get into a straight line down the centre of the
room 

Beans

The leader calls out various types of beans and the girls perform the correct action.

•   Runner Beans - run around
•   Jumping Beans - jump
•   Baked Beans - lie out in the sun
•   Chilli beans - shiver
•   Frozen Beans - Stand still
•   Broad Beans - Stand with legs as far apart as possible
•   French Beans - say "Oh La La!"
  Last one doing the action is out 

Name that animal

Each girl has a sheet of paper and pen. Read out an instruction for them to draw, such as ‘has 4 large feet’ and each girl draws that, then passes her paper to the left.
They then draw the next instruction such as ‘has a long neck’ on the new sheet. Carry on passing until all clues are done.
Look at the finished pictures and identify the animal e,g, giraffe 

Sleeping Lions

All but one girl is a sleeping lion, and lies on the floor with their eyes closed.
The one who is on moves around the rest, trying to make them move or laugh. She is not allowed to touch them, but can tell jokes or try to trick them into moving.
Any that do move get up and join her, trying to get the others to move

Duster hockey
You will need: a duster, a piece of fabric or beanbag. Hockey sticks made from rolled up news paper. Something to mark 2 goals.
Split girls into 2 teams and have them line up on
either side of the 'field'. Number the girls in each
team. Place the duster in the middle. When their

number is called girls run forward and try to score a goal. The team with the most goals wins.

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1. Fizz Buzz

 You were named after someone  You like to sing
 You prefer books to movies
 You play a musical instrument
 You like to play a sport  You prefer milk
chocolate to white Chocolate  You have travelled somewhere
on a train this year
 You want to join Guides when
you’re old enough  You like to dance

Players sit in a circle. The player to go first says the number "1", and each player after adds one number in

turn. However, any number divisible by three is replaced by the word fizz and any divisible by five by the

word buzz. Numbers divisible by both become fizz buzz. A player who hesitates or makes a mistake is out. A simpler alternative game is any number that contains 3 or 5.
For example, a typical round of fizz buzz would start as follows:
1, 2, Fizz, 4, Buzz, Fizz, 7, 8, Fizz, Buzz, 11, Fizz, 13, 14, Fizz Buzz,

16, 17, Fizz, 19, Buzz, Fizz, 22, 23, Fizz, Buzz, 26, Fizz, 28, 29, Fizz Buzz, 31, 32, Fizz, 34, Buzz, Fizz, ...

Sculptor

Girls line up in two rows facing each other.
Girls in one row are the sculptor. Girls in the other row are the marble.

The sculptor can change one part of the statue each time, and has six moves to make the marble into a funny statue. Girls then change roles.

All the same

Give each girl a sheet of A4 paper. Call out the following instructions. No one is allowed talk and all must do
the same thing.
1. FOLD YOUR PAPER IN HALF
2. FOLD THIS DIAGONALLY 3. RIP OFF A CORNER
4. FOLD IN HALF AGAIN
5. FOLD IT ONE THIRD
6. RIP OFF A CORNER

Ask everyone to unfold their sheet of paper - Isn’t it strange how everyone ended up with a different result?