Summer camp is totally fun, but if you’re not going away this summer, don’t worry – you can make your very own camp in your very own backyard!
Just invite your friends over and have a great time with these ideas:
Water gun archery: Draw a chalk dartboard on a brick wall or a fence. Have friends take turn firing with their water guns to see who can aim the closest to the center.
Rock Paper Scissors: Have a tournament and see who can make it to the final round!
Skipping: Time everyone and see who can skip the most jumps!
Obstacle Course: Set up hula hoops, chairs, tables – anything you can think of! Make people dash through, over and under obstacles. Time your friends and see who can do it fastest!
Bean Bag Toss: Set up buckets and have friends toss beanbags from varying distances (whoever can throw the bag into the bucket from the furthest distance wins). For a summery twist, use water balloons!
Craft Table: Set up a table for friends to make camp-like crafts (you can get some great ideas for camp crafts here on Webkinz Newz!).
Animal Tag: Someone is ‘it’ and they’re hungry! It chooses what kind of animal it wants to be and announces it to everyone else. When ‘It’ is about to tag someone, that person can avoid being tagged if they say the name of an animal that begins with the same first letter as ‘Its’ animal. For example, if It chose to be a ‘bear’, then the first person It would try to tag would have to think of another animal’s name that starts with a B (like ‘beaver’ or ‘barn owl’). ‘It’ would have to move on and try someone else. If you can’t think of a name that starts with the letter, It gets to tag you and the game stops while the new It announces their animal name (only one rule: it has to start with a different letter than the first ‘IT’ used).
Here’s a fun game me and my 2 best friends made up. This is how the game formed. My friends and I wanted to play The Wizard Of Oz and it was either me or one of my friends, I think one of my friends wanted to be the dog, Todo, and then my other friend said “What if Todo has rabies?” and then I said “NO! Todo does NOT have rabies!” Then she said that she wanted to be Todo or something like that (I don’t really remember all of this because it was in about kindergarten and now I’m going to be in 6th grade) and then she started chasing me and barking at me and it was sort of like tag. Then all my other friends saw us playing and they soon joined (I think) Then the game started and me and all my friends still play it once in a while and it is called Rabies. Here is how you play: someone is the animal and the animal chases the people on all fours (if you want to) then the animal tries to tag the people by “Biting” the person. Then that person has rabies.
That sounds AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!:) if ur not gonna go to camp i will 4 u………camp sounds fun so i would go 2 camp if i were u.
i like the animal tag. I made up a tag too. Here how you play.
One person is ‘it’. someone else has something small like a ball or something u can fit in ur pocket. You can pass the thing to other people who r not it. The person who is it can only tag the person who has the object. The best way to play is to not let the person know who has the object so the person who it has a harder time. Also if the person who is it get the object the game is over. And start again
:D cool
the animal tag sounds fun
Cool!
That is a GREAT idea, only, my backyard doesn’t have any grass. Just weeds.
Maybe when I move, and I make new friends, I can ask them to come over and do this! It sounds SOOOOOO fun!!! I will try it for sure!!!!!!! ~IceWolf* = [)
Sounds like fun!
-Olive
Sounds fun!
This sounds like a really fun idea! I can’t wait till we go on our summer vacation.
Sounds like fun! Pizza Eating Time