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Get your blood pumping with a "cat run" at home!
- Take turns with family members to be a "cat burglar" or "a guard"
- Can you sneak around and through some noisy obstacles to get the "treasure"?

Resources

You will need:
- Chairs
- Tables
- Blindfold
- Lots of old paper / newspaper
- Some “Treasure” e.g. a small toy like a ball or teddy

Instructions

Before you begin
- Scrunch up plenty of newspaper and scatter it all over the floor.
- Put chairs and tables on the floor to act as obstacles.
- Put your treasure at one end of the room

Play the game
- Choose 1 person to be the guard.
- The guard should stand at one end of the room (near the treasure) and be blindfolded.
- Everyone else should stand at the other end and they are all a potential cat burglar!
Cat burglars try to get in and out of buildings as silently as possible, so no one knows they’ve been there until much later.
- Silently choose one person to be the cat burglar. (Point at them, for example)
- The chosen cat burglar should slowly and carefully make their way to the other end of the room, where the guard is, and take the “treasure” that has been placed somewhere in the room. They’ll have to avoid the obstacles, and creep through the noisy newspaper.
- Meanwhile, the guard should listen carefully and try to catch the cat burglar in the act. If they think they hear the cat burglar, they should clap their hands. The cat burglar should freeze, and the guard should point to where they think the sound came from.
- If the guard points at the cat burglar, they’ve been caught! They should sit down where they are, so they’re another obstacle for the next cat burglar, (and if they already have the “treasure” put it down nearby as well). The person leading the game should tell the guard they caught someone, and choose another person to have a go as the cat burglar. If you have no more cat burglars – the guard wins! Restart the game and choose a different guard.
- If the guard points at an empty space, the person leading the game should tell them they didn’t catch the cat burglar. The cat burglar should keep going.
- If the cat burglar makes it to the treasure and back to the start without being caught, they should become the guard.



(This activity has been slightly rephrased from www.scouts.org.uk/activities/cat-run/ to make it easy to run from home)

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