Five Awesome Wide Games to Play With Campers and Students
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato Playing wide games is such a fun part of summer camp and school. Since I just returned from volunteering at a summer camp in BC, I thought I'd share a few favourites. Hopefully you can use some of these to build community with your classes when we go back to school in a few weeks! Four Way Flag Tag This is a super fun wide game that we played with all four grade seven classes on the first day of school. It is a great way to burn off energy and gives students a chance to work together as a group. You can play with any number of kids. Just make sure you cut up enough flag tape pieces ahead of time! Materials - Flag tape (one colour is fine - cut the tape into 30cm pieces - if we have 100 players, I pre-cut 150 pieces) - Scissors - Clipboard - Bucket for flag tape - Pencil/pen - Tally sheet with team names - Poster board with team names and ...