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Description

Christmas themed game of Captain’s Coming.

Resources

Hoop, chalk or masking tape to mark base (optional)

Instructions

One member of the group is the Elf. This person will call out the actions. It could be a young member, young leader or adult volunteer.

Everyone else should stand in the centre of the space, ready to respond to the commands with the appropriate action.

Everyone should practice the Elf’s commands. You could choose a selection from or all the following:

North Pole: run to the left of the space
South Pole: run to the right of the space
Santa’s coming: lie on the floor and pretend to be asleep
Climb the chimney: reach up and pretend to climb up a chimney
Rudolph: spread your fingers and put your hands on side of head, like a Moose
Ice skating: pretend to ice skate around the room
Snowballs: crouch down and get into ball
Wrap the presents: kneel and pretend to wrap a present
Christmas tree: use your arms to make a triangle above head
Fireplace: freeze, rub your hands together and keep warm
Snowman: stand still and put your arms out to the sides, like a snowman
Turkey: flap your arms and walk around like a Turkey

An adult volunteer or young leader could do the actions as they’re shouted out for people to copy. You may want to have a written out or printed copy of the actions.

You could start to get faster to make it harder and play it so the last person to do the action is out.

Alternatively, if you want to people to become out as you play the game, you could add in these actions:

Sleigh ride (5,4,6,2,3): Players must get into a group of that number of people as quickly as possible and pretend to be reindeer. Anyone not in a group or with a lower number in their group could be out.
Carollers then (5,4,6,2,3): Players must get into a group of that number of people as quickly as possible and pretend to sing. Anyone not in a group or with a lower number in their group could be out.
Pull a cracker: Everyone should get into pairs and pretend to pull cracker. Anyone not in a pair could be out.
Watch out, the Grinch: Everyone should run back a chosen base. The last player to the base is out. You could use a hoop, or mark a base on the floor using masking tape, chalk or similar.

Playing the game

Once everyone knows the commands, play the game.
You could have a practice round. Read out each action one by one and give people a little bit more time to remember the action.
You could also add it more actions as you go to make the game harder.
The person left at the end of the game is the winner.
You could monitor your heartbeat before and after playing this game and understand the reasons for the change.

Tags

• christmas
• game
• santa

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