This is a great game that dd played last year at cheerleading. It is called "Shipwreck". Everyone starts out on the floor and the coach will call out the commands. There are certain things that the kids do in pairs, triplets and by themselves. For instance, pairs is lovers leap where one person will hold the other person in their arms, bunk beds, where someone holds the other persons ankles in a push up position, three men eating is with three people, shark is where they lay on their bellies with their hands over their head like a fin, cockroach is with them on their backs with their arms and legs up. The point is to have one last person standing. When the pairs and triplets pair up, the people who don't have a group to go to have to sitout....
I know I am not explaining it too well--I am getting tired!!! But the game incorporates conditioning exercises in a fun way.
Maybe someone else on this board can explain the game better!!!
This is kind of like my favorite game, but this originiated more for gymnastics. I'ts called chicken in the hen house, I actually played it at my birthday party! haha. There are groups of 2. Start out by having 2 circles running around, one partner in each circle. Then say out a call, and the partners scramble to each other, then do the move. The last one to do it is out and has to do conditioning or whatever.
Here are the calls:
Rodeo (piggy back ride)
Lovers Leap (partner leaps into the arms of the other partner)
London Bridges (One partner will do a back bend into a bridge and the other will crawl under)
Sailors Sit (On partner will kneel down with one leg up for the partner to sit on and both will salute)
Chicken in the Hen House (One partner will kneel on all fours and the other will kneel on the back of the partner)
Back-pack(piggy back)
Camp fire (Girls go back to back link arms and sit down)
Eiffel Tower [ One girl does a handstand and the other person catches it)
Circle Up (continue rotating and go back into the 2 circles)
Another game we used to also do was link tag.
You can do obstacle races across the gym, through the pit, etc.
A fun balancing game, is where you all stand on two beams facing each other. Grab a big block, like one of the ones little kids use, and chuck it at each other as hard as you can. They have to catch the block and try to keep their balance. If they fall off the beam, they have to go do conditioning.
On the tramp you can do, uhh what's the name called? Oh!! Add on haha. Like someone does a backhandspring, and then the next girl adds something. Then they can't repeat what they've done it has to go by memory.
Handstand contests are also fun, whether this is on the beam, or walking on the floor.
We used to have this big game board, with games in it, and we'd play it on the beam. When you got a skill you could move your game piece.
Anotherrr one that the optionals used to do was something called like Baseball? They drew a baseball field on a piece of paper. Each girl was given a hard assignment, something they've never done before. Example: Backhandspring backlayout step out on beam. If they got that, they could go to the next base on the paper, and the team with the most points could move on.
Andd the final one what we played at our team banquet was something with bandanas. You put it loosely in your belt loop [if you were in the gym you could tie it or something] and then there were 4 hoola hoops per team. You were to go off [only could go out of your hoola hoop if you had a bandana on] and grab everyones bandana. You wanted all of the bandanas.