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Description

Kick-off with a game of sports charades to get everyone thinking and sharing.

Courtesy of The Scout Association
https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/sports-charades/

Resources

Scrap paper
Pens or pencils
Items of sporting equipment or clothing
Sports charades cards. see PDF

Take it further (Cubs)
Tie this into the Hobbies Activity Badge by adding some hobbies into the bowl of charades, along with sports.

Instructions

Before you begin
- Cut up the sports charades sheet. Fold the pieces and put them in a bowl.
- Encourage everyone to bring in some of the clothing or equipment needed for a sport that they play or participate in regularly (a football, swimming goggles, and so on).

Get ready for charades
1. Everyone should take a pen or pencil and write down a sport that they like to watch or play. Fold these suggestions up and add them to the bowl of sports charades.
2. Create a stage where the charades will be performed. There could be more than one stage if you have a large space or lots of people in the group.

Act it out
1. Players must act out the sport written on the piece of paper they pick from the bowl. If they don’t know what the sport is, they can pick again. Players cannot say words but they can make noises during their charade.
2. Everyone else should try to guess what the sport is. The player should shake their head at incorrect guesses and continue acting until the sport is guessed correctly.
3. If anyone in the group does this sport, they should explain the basic rules and can show some of the clothing and equipment needed if they have brought it in.
4. Everyone should have a turn at acting out a charade if they want to.
5. Everyone should get back together and chat about how it went. What did they do to be a good team player and help their team? Can they think of other types of teams and the roles in them?


Change the level of challenge
If your group isn’t familiar with sports, take out some of the unfamiliar ones from the list of charades or discuss them before you play the game. You could build this activity into a longer sports session, with an interactive element such as a quiz or roleplay to explain the rules of particular sports, or a taster session or demonstration so the group can try some of the sports.

Tags

• acting
• sports

Badge Links

• Creative - Perform
• Physical Recreation - Equipment
• Physical Recreation - Sports
• Physical Recreation - Training
• Teamwork - Team game