1. YOUTUBE KARAOKE
Host a karaoke party as a camp rainy day activity! You definitely don’t need a fancy machine or even microphones, thanks to endless karaoke-style videos on YouTube. You can pre-plan by creating a YouTube playlist of some kid-friendly songs. Campers can volunteer to sing alone, in duos, or in groups. Create flexibility for the performances for campers who might be too shy to sing in front of everyone else. Encourage them to be backup singers, dances, or air guitar soloists. 2. CABIN CARNIVAL
Give kids time to brainstorm a fun carnival game they can create with things they find in their cabins or outside in nature. Then set up stations for the kids to rotate to play the carnival games they made.
You can also provide some basic supplies such as:
- Empty cups and bottles
- Ping pong balls
- Face paint
- Bean bags
- 7Balloons
- Hula hoops
- Rubber ducks
Instead of prizes, you can give each cabin a stamp or a sticker that campers can collect as they complete each activity.
3. FINISH THE LYRIC
If you need a quick indoor game that requires little to no planning, this is a great option. You can play in teams, or with each camper individually.
You say or sing the first part of a song lyric, and the campers compete to see who can perfectly finish the line.
4. MINUTE TO WIN IT
Simply put, it’s a 60-second game using items typically found around the house. Participants attempt to see who can finish a challenge first or who can complete a task the most times in under a minute.
1. Dice Balance
Try to see how many dice they can get on the stick in one minute (the most dice win!). It's a little tricky and super fun to watch!
2. Sticky Situation
This popular game requires players to bounce a ping pong ball just right, to land it on a piece of bread slathered in peanut butter.
3. Cup to Cup
Have your players sit outside in a single file line (have the last player sit back to back with the second to last player). Put one bucket at the front of the line and one bucket at the end of the line. From there, players must fill a small plastic cup from the first bucket and pass it over their heads to the last bucket. The first team to reach the designated mark on the bucket wins!
4. Sock the Block
Build several LEGO block towers and place them around the room. Players must use balled-up socks to knock over all five towers.
5. Nose Dive
The secret weapon in this game? Petroleum jelly dabbed on the nose. Using their noses (no hands allowed), players must move five cotton balls from one bowl to another, before the minute is up.
5. PASS THE STORY OR DRAWING
If you take the story approach, each camper writes two lines of a story, leaving space between them. Then they fold the paper so only the second sentence is visible. The papers pass among campers, with each adding a new sentence based only on the one they can read, and then folding over the previous one. Once all campers have had the chance to add to the story, the papers are unfolded and read aloud.
You can do this with drawings as well. The first group of campers is instructed to draw a person or animal, but just the head and neck. Then they fold the paper so only the bottom edge can be seen. The next group adds the torso, again folding the paper so only the tiniest edge is visible. The final group adds legs, tails, wheels, etc., to finish the image. Then, each paper is unfolded to see what amazing collaborative creature was created.
ENJOY!