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Ships and Sailors

Various

Listen to the facilitator and be the last sailor standing

Safe Touch

Practice safe touch in all activities:

  • Ask permission

  • Try to only hold hands

  • When holding out a hand please make hands spoons not forks

  • Do not touch private areas like chest, groin, or butt.

  • Be respectful to each other

Game Instructions

Setup:

  • Requires 2 people - partner girls with girls and guys with guys.

  • Set up a large square grid with cones

Play:

  • Anytime a command is said by the Facilitator the last person to accomplish the command or not at all is eliminated

  • Last person standing wins

List of Commands:

  • Port (left)

  • Starboard (right)

  • Lovers Leap (2 people, Hold someone in your arms)

  • Bunkbeds (2 people, 1 laying on the ground holding one person up by their legs, the other person is supporting themselves of the other persons legs forming a bunk bed)

  • Beached Whale (lay on the ground, arms at your sides and make whale noises)

  • The Cracken is Coming (run around in a screaming panic)

  • Hit the Deck (Lay flat on your belly)

  • The Captain is Coming/At Ease (Stand at a salute, you may never break the salute until they say “at ease”)

  • # Men Eating/Rowing (# of people sit in a line on the ground and row / # of people sit on the ground in a circle pretending to eat)

  • Birdie in a Perch (2 people, someone rides piggyback on someone and has their hand up looking like they are looking for land)

  • Land Ho! (2 people, 1 person gets on their hands and knees, the other puts one foot up on them and looks out with their hands.)

  • Lighthouse (3 people, 2 people make an arch together with their hands, 1 person is standing in between them spinning in a circle with their hands on their heads)

RULES & SUPPLIES

Rules:

  • Please make sure they watch their step and don’t hurt themselves

Supplies

Note: all supplies are located Game Shed

  • Game Cones

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