Playground in the camp

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Your camp participants should have many play options and opportunities available to them in the non-programmed time in camp ("marginal times") in self-selected play groups, in pairs or alone

Game examples

  • Hurdle course
  • Rope jumping
  • Gummitwist
  • Develop their own shapes into bouncy games
  • Kantönlis
  • Stick games (Sumpfe, Chneble)
  • (Water) tag
  • Swimming mark for water polo games
  • Raft
  • Downhill lis
  • Climbing garden
  • Swings
  • Hide and seek
  • Volleyball, fistball
  • Goba, badminton
  • Pulling from the Chichtli
  • cricket/minigolf
  • Tschutte
  • Pole tennis
  • Table tennis
  • Squash

Contents of the game box:

  • Indiaca balls
  • Speckbrettli
  • Frisbee
  • Badminton rackets
  • Spring balls
  • Throwing rings
  • Badminton or volleyball net
  • Boccia balls
  • Kickball (rugby ball)
  • cheap plastic balls
  • All-round balls, large and small
  • Tennis balls
  • Chalk
  • Numbers (numbers game)
  • Rope for jumping rope
  • Rubber for rubber mitts
  • Yoyos
  • Diabolos
  • Bouncing balls (solid rubber)
  • Tape
  • Cord roller
  • Pingpong paddle and net
  • Ping pong balls
  • Card games
  • Board games
  • Colored buttons (as game pieces)
  • Coloring and writing utensils
  • Writing board, chalk, sponge

Source reference:

Content: Pascal Georg, Andrea-Carlo Polesello, Max Stierlin Play and Sport, 1990, Leader's Guide

copyright: ESSM, Magglingen, www.ehsm.ch

Photos and drawings: Anna-Barbara and Max Etter, Annemarie and Walter Geissbühler, Hugo Lörtscher

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