Fortunately, times are gone when children during the Komsomol meetings had to sit motionless and silent for hours. Ah, how difficult it is to do it at 8, at 15, and even at 40! Today, both in schools and in camps strive for interactivity. All participants in a concert, performance, or competition must become its participants. How to achieve this? Of course, through the game! Games in the children's camp are so numerous that experienced counselors publish whole books with collections of these entertainments. But today we’ll only talk about one type of interactive activity - the so-called games with the audience. What it is?
Games with the hall in the camp are used during general events, when all units gather in the assembly hall. During any competition or concert, there may be a hitch when it is necessary to entertain bored spectators with something. An experienced facilitator will intentionally include games with a hall in the camp in the program of the event for the reasons already mentioned by us.
The peculiarity of such entertainments consists in the need to involve a large number of children and in the limited space allocated for this. In the hall you can’t arrange mass relay races or active dances. The child is limited by his place in the auditorium, and the leader of the holiday is constrained in time. An inexperienced counselor just needs to get acquainted with the options for holding such games in advance!
Active dance entertainment
These are such traditional games with a hall in the camp as “The deer has a big house”, “We will rock you”, “Dance teacher”, “The train goes fast”. All of them are based on the fact that for a certain song or a funny song, all those present perform movements that mime repeating the contents of a song or poem. It’s good for such games to use songs from popular mini-discos on holiday conducted by animators in Turkey or Egypt. Children who rested in these countries will be happy to remember a wonderful time. And those who have never attended such a disco will still be happy to dance with the others, because the songs there are unusually fiery and funny.
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These games also require minimal movements, but they must be performed according to certain rules. For example, in the game “Giants and Lilliputians
”, the leader alternately pronounces the words “giants”, “Lilliputians”, and in the first case, children should stand on their toes and stretch their arms up, and in the second, squat down, stretching their arms forward. The leader’s task is to confuse the students by performing movements that do not correspond to the spoken word. Another time, children's movements can be changed: “midgets” join hands together, and “giants” spread their arms wide apart. These games are especially relevant on the bus. There are a number of such entertainments in the camp, and counselors themselves can come up with suitable movements and funny words-signals: “Heel-nose-navel-nape”, “Kola-fanta-sprite”, “Young ladies-hooligans” and so on.
Noiseers and chants
Games are not too intelligent, but help relieve stress and tension, reduce noise and just indulge. You can use ready-made chants or invent them with your children. Often they are based on onomatopoeic words.
Lead words | Children answers |
Param-Parerum! | Hey! |
Param-Parerum! | Hey! |
Param-Parerum! | Hey! Hey! Hey! |
What is the mood? | In! (thumb rises) |
Your opinion forever? | Yes! |
Then: Hooray !!! | Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! |
Viewers can demonstrate how
an elephant sneezes. For this, the hall is divided into 3 groups. Those who sit to the left of the leader will shout “Cartilants!”, Those in the center will chant: “Boxes!”, And the children who will take places on the right hand of the leader will say out loud: “Dragged!” First, a rehearsal takes place: according to the sign of the presenter, the right words, then the left, then the center, cry out the necessary words. When the counselor raises both hands, all participants should scream their word - then the sound of a grand elephant sneeze will turn out!
The Aliens game is also very fun. The hall is again divided into several groups. Each will sing in its own “language." It is very simple to do this: the "English" change all the vowels in the lyrics to the sound [a], the "French" to the sound [y], the "Spaniards" to the sound [and]. Children take turns performing their funny songs: "Alachka rejoiced in the lasa", "Improvement was in the lusa", "Ilychiki were in the fox" - and so on, 1 verse and chorus are enough.
The main thing is to understand that games with the hall in the camp should give children joy, discharge the atmosphere, and unite students among themselves.