Chubby Bunny
# Of participants: 5+
Age: 12+
Equipment: Marshmallows
Type of Game: Food Game
Description: Divide the group up into teams, pending on the number of participants. Each group is given a bag of marshmallows; and selects a volunteer. The game begins by placing a marshmallow in the volunteers mouth, once the marshmallow is in the volunteers mouth he/she must say "chubby bunny". Once the volunteer completes this task, the process is repeated again, the game continues until the participant can no longer coherently pronounce "chubby bunny". The team who can put the most marshmallows in their volunteer's mouth is declared the winners.
Objective: fun, teamwork, cooperation, and fair play.
Leadership Suggestions: Encourage kids not to force marshmallows into volunteer's mouth. Only do this game if you have a mature group
Safety: The risk of choking on marshmallows is high.
Problem area: More spectators then participants.
Orange you glad you didn't drop it!
Age: 10 and up
Ideal # of Participants: 10 or more
Equipment: Oranges
Type of Game: Food relay
Description: Hold the orange under your chin without your hands. Walk/run across the gym and back holding the orange with your chin. Pass the orange to the next person without using your hands.
Objectives: Be the first team to finish the relay
Leadership Suggestions: For younger children, have smaller oranges to make it possible for them to hold it with their chin.
Safety Measures: Make sure there aren't any loose objects or anything on the ground the participants can trip on.
Problem areas/Recommendations: Younger children, or older people for that matter may feel uneasy passing the orange back and forth. Possibly making each team the same sex or go boy girl.
Licorice Relay
Name of Game: Licorice Relay
Ideal Number of Participants: 10 or more
Age Suitability: 7 and up
Equipment: Shoestring licorice or regular licorice, and marshmallows
Type of Game: Active food game
Description: With a partner, eat a piece of shoestring from both ends while blindfolded. Once done you must skip with your partner to a pylon, grab a
marshmallow between your cheeks and run back.
Objective: Be the first team to finish the relay.
Leadership Suggestions: For the eating of the licorice, the two people try to match up boy and girl, so no one can be made fun of, and if there is a problem with touching, the two players can stop eating once they are really close.
Safety Measures: Make sure the licorice is fully chewed before the players are able to run to the marshmallows. The player must stick out their tongue.
Problem Areas/ Recommendations: To make the game a little harder by having the players have their legs wrapped together as they skip to the other line where the marshmallow awaits them.
Feed The Fool
Number of Players: 5 or more
Age: 5 and up
Type: Cooperative
Equipment: One Loaf of Sliced Bread. Knife, Peanut Butter.
Objective: Correctly tell the leader how to make a sandwich.
Description: The group must instruct the leader, one at a time, how to a sandwich. The leader takes all instructions literally.
Leadership Suggestions: Try to choose a creative and outgoing leader among teens or be the leader yourself especially if the game is being played with younger children.
Safety Measures: Allergies to peanuts, and don’t use sharp knives!! One more allergy concern may be penicillin. Someone may be allergic to penicillin, which may grow on the bread if left out for too long.
Problem Areas/Recommendations: In the case of allergies, make sure the person who is allergic to peanuts doesn’t come into contact with the peanut butter; or just use something else like jam or honey. Keep the bread in the bag until it is time to play the game.
