Activity List

One of the great strengths of Winter Camp over the years has been the number of different and unusual activities we've held. Some have been fairly normal activities taken to a larger scale, like Capture the Objective; others have been extensions of existing activites, like 4-Way Volleyball. Still others, like Forest Bowling, have been just plain bizarre.

In the list below, anything we've ever held will show a Last Held with a link to that year's history. If we have a more detailed description, then the name of the event will be a link.

Legal Stuff:

You're free to hold any of these or link to this page, but please don't use them in a commercial publication. Someday, we dream that we'll do that ourselves; until then, this list is Copyright (C) 1997, by the Winter Camp Future Society.

Starting with Numbers Starting with A Starting with B Starting with C Starting with D Starting with E Starting with F Starting with G Starting with H Starting with I Starting with J Starting with K Starting with L Starting with M Starting with N Starting with O Starting with P Starting with Q Starting with R Starting with S Starting with T Starting with U Starting with V Starting with W Starting with X Starting with Y Starting with Z

Activities beginning with Numbers

10 gallon hat relay:  You have to fill the hat to win the race.

1977 Trivia Challenge  (XXIII):  Answer challenging questions about the events of 1977

3-Square  (X):  Like 4-Square only with three squares.

3-Way Snake Hockey:   Three teams vie for the honors

4-Square  (XX):   The official indoor game of Winter Camp

4-Way Dodgeball:  Like regular dodgeball only with 4 teams.

4-Way Tug of War:   4 teams pull on an X of rope

4-way Volleyball  (XXXII):   Who can make the least mistakes?

Activities beginning with A

Aardvark Imitation:   The first on the list

Abduction Clue  (XXI):  Can you figure out which Winter Camper was taken by aliens?

Activity Voting Marathon:   A work in progress

Aerial Obstacle Course:   Complete the course but don't touch ground

Aerial Tram:   Make a tram from BC to Clearwater

Agents Pursuit  (XXIV):  Matrix style multi-station event.

Air Hockey  (V):  The classic tabletop game.

Airsoft:  Bring airsoft guns for use on the rifle range

Alermeraine  (XVII):   From the DS9 Episode

Alf Imitation Day:   Act like little Charlie's favorite alien

Alien Design Contest  (XVII):  Build your own aliens.

Alien Quest  (XXI):  Search for intelligent life.

Anagram Contest:   Scramble 'em and give it a shot

Anarchy:   No government, no leaders

Anarchy Contest:   Try to be the most disruptive

And then:  Given the start of a story about a camper, you have to finish it.

Animal Balloons:   Learn to make your own latex creations

Animal Sense:   Approximate their limitations

Appropriate Facial Hair:  Grow (or trim) facial hair to styles appropriate for thee 1870's)

Archimedes Screw:   Build an ancient water pump

Area 51 RPG  (XXI):  Players are assigned to be aliens, skeptics, reporters, etc and attempt to reveal or hide the truth as appropriate.

Armageddon:  An overnight activity based on a nuclear holocaust.

Arrowmen Bingo  (XXX):   Get your card signed and play along

Art Contest:   Who is the new Michelangelo?

Art that is cut up and then put back game:  Art is drawn and shown, then torn and passed out. Those who play must trade to get back the parts they need.

Ask Doctor Beast:  A live action version of the original Winter Camp advice column.

Assassin:   Kill your friends for points

Astrology Debunking:   It's sort of scientific

Astronomy:   Yes, and that's the north star

Attack the Fort:   Take the shore batteries me hearties!

Away Team Contest:   Two teams race to complete their mission

Activities beginning with B

Backwards Baseball:   Just like it says

Backwards Day  (XIII):   Eat snack first and breakfast last

Backwards Face Marching:   Walk backwards up the face

Backwards Hike:   Take a whole hike in reverse

Bag Lady Day:   See if you can fill your sack o' goodies

Bake A Thon:  An evening of baking.

Ball Blast  (XXI):  Volleyball-like game played over a low fence by kicking a giant ball.

Balloon Stomp:   Last one with a balloon left wins

Balloonography  (XV):  Decorating the cabin and campers with balloons

Baseball:   America's favorite sport

Basketball:   Kinda rough without a court

Battle Chess  (XXXII):   Pieces fight to take the squares

Battles/Military Trivia:  Trivia about military history

Battleship with Artillery (no explosives):  Create artillery and fire at your opponent's ships

Battleship with Potato Guns:  Create potato guns and fire at your opponent's ships

Beach Party  (VI):   The sparkling white sands are calling you

Beast Game:   Highly variable and very entertaining

Beeline Hike:   Walk as straight a line as possible

Begging  (XIII):  Who can get a good meal?

Belching Contest:   Who can beat Booger?

Belly Flop Contest:   Slide down the hill on your belly

Betta Battles:  Buy some fish at Meijer on the way up and let them duke it out.

Bid For Work:  A scheme to make those who want the best things at camp earn them.

Big Bro Taboo:  Guess the word but you get clues of just one part.

Big Wheel Marathon:   Race 3 wheeled trikes around camp

Big Winter Camp Myth Show:  Contestants compete to either debunk or create new myths about Winter Camp

Bird Census:   A study of our avian neighbors

Blacksmithing:   Mr. Wilson's soon to be hobby

Blind Basketball:   Even rougher without a court

Blind Hike  (XXXII):  Destination Unknown

Blind Maze (w/ sticks):  Navigate a maze while blindfolded.

Blind Puzzle Building:   Yep, another Blind activity

Blind Wrestling  (IX):  Wrestling while wearing a blindfold.

Blindfolded Archery:   Not even Robin Hood would try this

Blindfolded Darts:   Nearly as stupid as archery

Blob Tag:   When you're tagged, you're the blob

Boarding Party:  Conduct mock ship-to-ship combat.

Boat Construciton:   Make your own longboat

Bocce Ball:   Robert DeNiro's waiting,

Bolas Throwing  (XXIX):  Attempt the use of this south american weapon

Bonsai Sculpting:   As long as come from inside you...

Book Building Contest:   Make your own book at camp

Book Club:  We all read a book in the time when camp is not held then talk of it at camp.

Book of the Year:  A scrap book for camp.

Boomerang Bash!  (XXIX):  Playing with boomerangs.

Boston Ball:  Old school basketball.

Bottle Balancing:   A deadzone favorite

Bottle Peeling Contest:   Try to take the label off a bottle

Boy's Life Air Car:   As seen in the magazine

Brain Vs. Brawn:  Choose brain or brawn to defeat the obstacles.

Brands:  Make a brand for camp then use it to brand some of our gear.

Broomball:   Sorta like hockey

Brotherhood Ceremony  (XV):   If required

BSI Wargames:  Have games based on Brownsea Island activities.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer  (XXVII):  A predator/prey variation based on the popular TV show.

Build New Latrine:   A valuable (if unanticipated) service

Bunny Slipper Relay  (XXIV):  Compete in a series of wacky events while wearing bunny slippers

Burning Pirate Ships:  Build pirate ships and set them ablaze.

Activities beginning with C

Cabbage Ball:   Play football with a cabbage

Cabin Cleaning Contest:   Cheap way to sneak in extra service

Cabin Crawl  (XX):   Circumvent the interior w/o touching floor

CAG Funeral  (IX):  Celebrating a change in the lodge

CAG Trap Contest  (IX):  Creating a change in the lodge.

Calisthenics:  Daily physical training

Caloric Determination:   Determine calorie content of foods

Campfire  (VIII):   Complete with skits and the like

Can Shooter:  Knock down cans with rubber bands.

Canadian Theme Day:  Engage in activities inspired by our northern brethren.

Candle Making:   Dip it in the hot wax

Cannon Building:   Boom!

Cannon Shooting:   Knock 'em down

Capture the Daimyo:  International retheming of Capture the Objective

Capture the Objective  (XXXII):   Capture the Flag for big kids

Capture the Objective (overnight):  The typical game with an overnight bivouac thrown in

Card Tournament  (XX):   Who are the real card sharks?

Cards for Trade:  Make cards for each who comes to camp and trade them like sports cards.

Carnival  (VI):   A fun time at the fair

Casino Night  (XXXII):   Win big or lose it all.

Castaway Day:   No lights, no planes, no motor cars

Cat Housin':  Build shelters for kitties

Cat's Quizzer  (XXIII):  Suess inspired trivia.

Catapult Building:   Build an ancient siege engine

Cattle Drive:  See if we can get the Ranch's supply of cows to come home.

Cattle Rustling:  Steal the Ranch's supply of cows in case they won't let us have the Cattle Drive.

CC Pole Vault:   Obstacle course with a stave to help you

Celebrity look-alike contest:   Who looks like Beavis?

Celebrity Roast:  Choose a prominent Winter Camper for some good-natured ribbing by his companions.

Cemetery Hike  (VIII):   Take a walk to a local graveyard

Charades:   An ancient parlor game

Cheater's Pinewood Derby:   Anything goes!

Chemistry:   Fun with explosives

Chess Tournament  (XVII):   Who is the champion?

Chinese Cabin Drill:   The whistle sounded, now change bunks

CHR Memorial Construction  (XI):  Build a site to honor the gone but not forgotten camp

Christmas Party:   A little late, but still...

Clearwater Stampede  (XXII):  Multi-event game with a western theme.

Cliche Contest:   Who is the most trite?

Clock Building:   Build a clock of natural materials

Clock in a bottle:   Make a clock inside a bottle

Cloud pictures:   No, it looks like a horse, no, a dog.

Clown-a-rama:   BYOW (Bring your own whiteface)

Coin Spinning  (XXII):  Who can spin a coin the longest.?

Coin Walking:   Walk a quarter across your hands.

Commando:   A track and stalk variant

Commando Stalking:  Track down the target

Compass Regata:   A nautical compass course

Composite Materials Merit Badge:  Work on this exciting new merit badge!

Computer Crushing:   Not my computer you don't

Conservation Project:   Ecology is the buzzword for the 90's

Conspiracy:   It's a plot I tell you, a plot!

Continuous Storytelling  (XI):   Everyone tells a little of this tall tale

Cooking Contest  (VIII):   A scouting tradition

Cooperative Game:   Nobody wins

Cope Course:  Run a cope course at camp (or use the camp's cope course).

Costume Ball:   Don't forget your glass slippers

Costume party:   At least we won't have to dance

Costume Sewing:   In case you forgot yours

Counter-Cultural exchange:   Two differing groups try to communicate

Cow Tipping:  More vengeance against the cows1

Cowboys and Indians:  Dress up and fight just like little kids.

Creative Cursing:   Who can cuss without 4 letter words?

Cribs:  View slideshows/movies of Winter Campers' homes.

Cribs!:  Take a tour of a winter Campers home.

Cricket:  Try not to hit a batsmen or get caught in a sticky wicket.

Cross-Country Canoeing:   Use a canoe as a sled or carry it along

Cross-Country Golf  (XXXII):   The Winter Camp classic par 62 hole

Cross-Country Shotput:   Throw as far as you can then chase it

Curling  (XXII):   The popular Canadian Ice game

Custer's Last Stand:  Re-enact the famous slaughter.

Activities beginning with D

Daily Calisthenics:   Begin excercise.

Daily News:   Print a daily newsletter

Dam Building:   Everyone loves to increase erosion

DDA Course:   A compass hike of enormous proportions

Dead Or Canadian?  (XXII):  Trivia about famous people who are either dead or Canadian.

Deadeye contest  (XXVIII):  Attempt to shoot or throw for accuracy.

Decorating:   Christmas decorations really liven it up

Deer Blind Inferono:  Set fire to deer blinds.

Demo Derby  (XXIX):  Crash up go carts.

Democracy:   Vote on everything all the time

Demolition Derby:   Yeah, whatever

Design an Alien:   Evolution simulation

Design Challenge:  Teams square off to design a new look for the website, newsletter or other creative endeavours.

Design Challenge!:  Teams compete to create the best design for a website or newsletter.

Devise an original boardgame:   Illuminati variants don't count

Diorama Building:   Build the camp in miniature

Disco Discus:   Throw disco records for distance

Disks Of Tron  (XXII):  Dodgeball with frisbees.

Do what I Did (or HORSE):  One is in the lead and does a thing then all must try it. Those who fail get part of the word Horse.

Dodge The Bullet  (XXIV):  Dodgeball with a Matrix slant.

Dog Bite Contest:   Who can bite the hardest?

Dog Hunt:   Find the dog who bit someone 10 yrs ago

Domino Tipping:   Set up the maze and patterns

Double Frisbee Ultimate:   2 frisbees for twice the fighting

Downhill Skiing:   On the face!?

Droopy Drawers Marathon  (XXIII):  Adults tried to style like youth in this event.

Drop Off Blind Hike:   Get dropped off in an unknown spot

Drop-off Hike:   Get dropped off and hike back

Drunken Sailor Day:   Imitate the popular folk song

Dumas Day:   Swear loudly and act like a jerk, it's ok

Activities beginning with E

Early Adventure:   Get up at 3:00 am for an activity

Earth Ball Soccer:   Think about the size of the goals

Egg Roll:   Roll an egg with your nose

Egg Toss:   Who can toss it the furthest w/o breaking

Electro-plating:   Mr. Wilson's other new hobby

Elevation Hike  (II):   Pick a topo line and stick to it

Embroidery:   Put your name on your shirt

Endurance Games:   Who can last the longest?

Environmental Art Project:   Aesthetically pleasing & naturally occuring.

Erect Squaw Point sign:   Make a new sign

Escape Contest:   Who can break their bonds fastest?

Euchre Tournament  (XVI):  Which team will prevail?

Exploding Pirate Mini-Golf:  Miniature golf course with a final hole that bursts into flames.

Extreme Bowling  (XXVII):  Sled down the hill and try to score a strike.

Activities beginning with F

Face Painting:   Paint your faces Indian-style

Fair Trial  (XXVIII):  A mock trial for the murder game.

Fake Trans-BC Hike:   Make 'em think they're walking

Fashion Emergency:  An inspection of Winter Campers for appropriate outdoor gear.

Fashion Emergency ala the Outdoor Network:  Critique of outdoor fashion sense.

Fear Factor:  Replicate a fear factor event at Winter Camp.

Feature Film  (XXXI):   Take a movie break

Ferris Wheel:   Build a ferris wheel pioneering project

Find the Terrorist:  Search for the traitor among us Murder-style

First Class Hanging  (XXVIII):  Punishment is meted for the Murder game

First Mission:   Just like on Star Trek

Fizzball:   Baseball with a shaken up soda can

Flint Napping:   Make stone arrowheads

Fly Tying:  Learn to tie your own fishing flies.

Foot Race:   Who is the fleetest of foot?

Foot Volleyball:  Play volleyball with no hands.

Football  (XXVII):   Touch or Flag, sorry.

Football on Lifetime or Oxygen:  Powderpuff football (in more ways than one).

Forest Bowling  (X):   Roll a ball at the pins through the trees

FOUR PLAYER PING PONG:  Ping poing on 2 tables.

Foxtail 21:   Use the foxtail to play catch for points

Frankenstein Event  (XVI):  Frankenstein is revealed to have been at camp.

Frisbee Golf  (XXVII):   Throw the frisbee through loops

Frisbee Ultimate:   Somewhere between football and soccer

Frozen Cow Chip Tossin':  I am not touching that thing.

Frozen Turkey Toss:  Continue to talk about this singularly uninspired event years later as if it's the worst thing that ever happend to you.

Fruit Baseball:   Play baseball using assorted fruit

Full Contact Chess:   Just what it sounds like

Full Contact Volleyball:   Reaching under the net is fine

Full Day Trek:   Hike the whole day & pack lunch

Fun with Words:  The core of this thought is to have folks speak in a way that is not the way they do most of the time.

Activities beginning with G

Gallows:  Necessary construction if you're going to have a first class hangin'

Game Festival  (XXIX):   Various games, no real structure

Game whose goal is not known:  When this game starts none know how to win.

Garb Construction:   Make you own Indian outfit

Garbage Relay:   Who can take the trash out the fastest

Genetic Manipulation:   Another in the Weird Science series

Genius Night:   What can you make of this junk?

Geriocracy:   Rule by the eldest

Get Acquainted Game:   Match the little known facts.

Getting toknow you, getting to know all about you:  Interview a fellow camper for fun and prizes.

Ghost in the Graveyard:   A game similar to tag

Giant Battleship:  The basic idea is to create a large scale battleship board and then to play battleship on a board measured in feet rather than inches.

Giant Billiards:   Play billiards with beach balls

Giant Boardgames:   Set-up some game in giant format

Giant Bowling:  Like Bowling, only with bigger balls, pins, and possibly alley.

Giant Knightmare Chess:   Play variable battle chess

Giant Mousetrap:   Make a contraption to capture a man

Golf Bowling:   Golf using a bowling ball

Gong Show  (IX):   Will you score a 10 or get gonged?

Goofy Golf:   Hit opposite handed and ignore advice

Goofy Racers:   Build a racing machine & compete

Great Cola Challenge  (XIV):  Taste test to identify various colas.

Grid Golf:   Similar to mini-golf

Gross Out Contest:   Who can make you puke?

Groundless Hike:   Hike without ever touching the ground

Group Eye for AnotherGroup Guy:  Members of one group attempt to help a member of a different group be more like them.

Group Eye for the Other Group guy:  Winter Campers from different groups try to give each other a style makeover

Group Hobby Draw:  Everyone gets the same hobby.

Group Projects  (XXVIII):  Each group is assigned a project based on the camp theme.

Guess My IQ!:   Randomly assigned IQ scores

Guest Speaker:   Michael Davis perhaps

Activities beginning with H

Ham Radio Station:   Make worldwide contact

Hammock Sleeping:   No bunks, everyone is pendulous

Hand Walking Race:   Walk inverted

Handicap Awareness:   Randomly assigned handicaps

Hatchet Throwing:   Just like Dan'l Boone

Hatmaking  (XXIII):  Build a Suess inspired hat.

Helen Keller Competition:   Deaf & Blind

Helium Football:   Football with a lighter than air ball

Helium Singing:   Dangerously funny

Hell Night:   A night of misery

History Day:   Become your favorite historical figure

History Test:   Who knows the most about Winter Camp?

Hobby Demo  (XXXII):   Demo last year's and select some new ones

Hobby Draw  (XXXII):   Learn a new hobby by next WC

Holbrook Contest:   Who can gain the most weight in a week?

Homeless Night:   The cabin doors are locked sleep elsewhere

Horses:   Go horseback riding

House of Card contest:  Try to build the biggest/tallest house of cards possible.

How did that stuff do that?:  Use a bunch of junk to build a way to do some task.

How tough are you?:  Test how tough you are.

Howey Day:   Act like John Howey for a day

Human Checkers  (XII):  Human-sized checkers

Human Chess:   No contact version of Battle Chess

Human Clue  (XXVII):  Human-sized Clue

Human Croquet:  Use humans as wickets, stakes, etc.

Human Othello:   Players have to change colors

Human Slingshot:   Primitive version of human cannonball

Human Stratego:  Play Stratego on a giant board with campers as pieces.

Human Tic-tac-toe:   Like Hollywood Squares

Human Wheel:   Lock 'em in the tire and let 'em roll.

Humor Contest:   Who can tell the best joke?

Hydrogen Ballooning  (XXI):   Always a winner

Hypnosis:   Okay, cluck like a chicken

Activities beginning with I

Ice Climbing:   Who can climb an ice wall the fastest

Ice Cream Making  (XIX):   Look out Ben & Jerry

Ice Dragon:   2 Parade dragons duke it out on the ice.

Ice Fishing:   Bring your own tip-up

Ice Golf  (XV):  Like putt-putt on the ice

Ice Hockey:   On the (hopefully) frozen lake

ice hockey in indoor building:  Play hockey indoors.

Ice Sculpture:   Bodacious!

Ice Skating:   On the (hopefully) frozen lake

Idiosyncracies:   Randomly assigned personality quirks

Illuminating the World:   Create an Illuminati style satire

Indian Dancing:   Dance practice

Indian Leg Wrestling:  An old favorite with two supine opponents locking upright legs.

Indian Lore Merit Badge:   Earn the badge

Indian Olympics  (XX):   Compete in Native American Games

Indian Warpath:  The settlers come under attack.

Individualized Quest:   Assign quest buddies

Insect Test:   Strength vs. Body weight

Activities beginning with J

Jacob's Ladder:   The rope kind

Jail:  We build a jail then put people in it if they're scofflaws

Jail construction  (XXVIII):  If you're going to have a trial, you might need a jail.

Jeff Rand:  These are games that were played at Brownsea Island which are suitable for playing at night.

Jello Balloon Fight:   Fill balloons with jello & fling them

Activities beginning with K

Kickball  (XXIII):   Modeled after it's cousin

Kite Flying Contest:   Who can fly longest and highest?

Klingon Gauntlet:   Recreating the ritual

Knitting Bee:   Make a scarf since you forgot yours

Knot-tying Race:   Who can tie the 7 basic knots the fastest?

Activities beginning with L

Labor Contest:   Who can work the hardest the longest?

Lacross:  Play lacross.

Lacrosse:   Traditional Indian Game

Lake Billiards:   Another excuse to stand on cracking ice

Lake Crawl:   Try to make it around the semi-frozen lake

Lasso contest:  Try to Lasso for points.

Lassoing:  Try your luck at this cowpoke skill.

Last Ceremony  (IX):   Performance of the classic from the '70s

Last Words:  Write a tale that ends with the words drawn from a hat.

Latrine Contest  (XIV):  Who can sit the longest, shortest,e tc.

Lawn Jarts:   Hey, they're unsafe, we gotta play

Leg wrestling  (XXVIII):  Indian leg wresting.

Lemans Grand Prix of D-A  (XXIX):  Once around Ranch Road in hand-drawn go carts

Letter Chanting:   Chant a letter continuously

Liar's Club:   Players try to guess what objects are

Life Race:  Race on four then two then three "legs"

Light Bulb Manufacture:   Match wits with Thomas Edison

Limerick Contest:   Who can make the best 5 line poem?

Limited Computers:   Leave the damn things at home

Liquid Consumption Contest:   Who can drink the most?

Locksmithing:   An important Scout skill

Long and Short:  Try to guess the word in the most or least time.

Long Bow Making:   Make a bow

Long Distance Slingshot:  Shoot the target at great distance

Lost Child Search:   A scout-skills drill

Lost Daha Hike  (III):  Recreating an ancient event.

Lynching:  Just in case the trial actually is fair.

Activities beginning with M

MacGyver Escape:   Use a tin can to save the planet

Machinery Midway  (XVI):  Various machines and their properties are explained.

Magic Contest:   Who can do the best trick?

Magic Towel Contest:  Will a magic towel cause mayhem?

Major Treasure Hunt:   An all day treasure map event

Make a movie:   Lights, Camera, Action!

Make Ads:  split the group and form teams, each of which would make a group of ads to say how good Cold Time Camp is

Make an idiot of yourself:  Try to do the most embarassing things possible.

Make me Laugh!:  Have 2 or three teams, then each team pics one guy not too laugh (probly a mossboy) and the rst of the teame to tell jokes.

Manhunt:   Try to find the escaped felon

Marshmellow Dodgeball:   Try not to get hit with soft projectiles

Mash Trivia:  Trivia about the venerable television series

Mask Making:  Make a mask from an impression of your face

Masquerade Party:   Wear a mask and act cultured

Math Game:  Each one who plays has a strength based on things which can change, like x, y and z. They vote ot change them and in the end the high strength wins.

Matter Transport:   Yeah, Whatever.

Mattress Dive:   Stack 'em up and leap from the roof

Maze Craze  (XII):  Follow the snowy maze to its conclusion.

McElligot's Pool:  Using extra large balls, the teams compete in a game of billiards.

Meal Class:  At the start and end of most meals there is a time when things are slow. We could do things in this time. One thought would be to choose folks to learn more of the theme for that day and then tell us what they've learned when the meal is done or as we wai

Memorization Contest:   Who can memorize a text the fastest?

Mentos Display:  Toss it into the diet coke and watch the aftermath

Merit Badge Midway:   A brief view of a few badges

Merit Badge of Year:   Each youth can earn a merit badge

Metamore Products Tour:   So, what do you guys make here?

Middle Name Day:   Everyone gets called by their middle name

Military Broomball:  Like broomball only no holds barred

Military Dress Contest:  Find out who can look the most like a soldier

Milk Drinking Contest:   Who can drink the most milk?

Minefield:  Lay a minefield for other teams to negotiate

Miniature Golf:   A little putt-putt golf

Mining/Excavation:   Let's dig a dungeon

Mission Impossible  (V):   Your mission, should you choose...

Mock Battle:   A medieval conflict ala Grand Melee

Mock Hanging:  Nothing says fun like a first class hangin'

Mock Midieval Tournament:   Several events combined

Mock Trial:  Basically we hold a mock trial. Some person iss the prosecutor, someone is the defense.

Model Plane Bombing:   Use an RC to drop for accuracy

Monarchy  (XVI):   The King is in charge

Monk Marathon:  Finish it or die.

Moonlight Night:   No electric lights for an evening

Mountie Murder Clue  (XXII):  Murder Clue with Canadian flavor

Mouse Maze Racing:   Bring your own mouse

Movable Pioneering Project:   This pioneering project moves!

Movie Marathon:   Continous watching of movies

Movie Quote Contest:   Who said it and in what movie?

Moviemaking  (XXVIII):  Make our own movie.

Multi-Baker tent game:  The game isn't important, the idea is to use Baker tents as goals and have more than 2 teams.

Multi-legged Race:   A human centipede

Multi-participant Juggling:   1 - 2 - pass - 1 - 2 - drop Damn!

multiple way bakers tent score game:  Play a game using Baker Tents as goals.

Murder Clue:   Live action clue game

Murder Game  (XXVIII):  Computer instructed mayhem.

Music Appreciation:   Try different styles of music

Music Day:   Every activity has theme music

Mutant Hamster Races  (XXIV):  Real Genius inspired genius night racing.

Mutation Assignment:   Everyone has a bizarre new feature

My Way Game:   Each player makes his own rules during his turn

Activities beginning with N

Name That Arrowman  (VII):  Identify obscure arrowmen from obscured photos.

Name that Bro:  We should play a game of Clue where I was the one who was to be found and that at the end, my name would be known to all.I like that thought and will work on it.

Name that Tune:   I can get it in 2 notes

Name that TV show:   KInd of like name that tune

Nap  (IX):   A Beast favorite

National Geographic Presents:  Watch a travel show then compete for prizes.

Nationalities Day:   Dress up in a national costume

Natural Clothing:   Make clothes out of natural materials

Nature Hike:   Fauna and flora Identification

Nature Project:   Do a conservation project for the camp

Nerf Wars:  War using Nerf weapons

New Language:   Replace English as the tongue of choice

New Year's Resolutions  (XXIII):  Hobby Draw on holiday day.

Newspaper (daily):   Produce a newspaper every day

Newspaper (post-event):   Mail the paper to campers afterwards

Night In Hell  (XXI):   A night of misery

Night Outside:   Spend the night outside

Night Stalking  (V):   Try to sneak up on your prey

No Computers:   Leave all of them at home

No Nintendo:   Leave the gameboys at home

Nuclear Survival Exercise:   Warning, detonation in 12 minutes

Number Recognition:   3.14159, 144, 1760, 2204.6, etc

Activities beginning with O

Oakes Day:   Urban folk tales carry the day

Oatley Ring Fighting:   Link hands and try to break the circle

Obstacle Course  (VIII):   Try to run through the various obstacles

Officer's Club:  Create a special room or activity for selected few

Old Wives Tales:  We could do a day where we tried to find which things that old wives say are true and which are not. This would take some work, since we would have to find those things first, then make up a way to test them (like a watched pot will not boil)

Orientation  (XXIX):  Explain camp to the new and remind the oldof the rules.

Orienteering/DDA  (XVIII):  Compass course.

Origami:   Paper folding

Original Murder Game:   Randomly assigned killers stalk camp

Osvath Wiring Maze  (XIII):   A confusing electrical nightmare

Other Cabin Improvements:   Service is service

Outdoor Marbles:   Played in the shimmering Sands

Outer Space Party:   Dress like a spaceman or alien

Overnighter:   Just like a night outside

Activities beginning with P

Paper Airplane Contest  (XVII):   Who can fly the longest and/or furthest?

Paper Making:   Mr. Rand's new hobby

Parissi Squares:   From the ST:TNG Episode

Parrot Contest:  Contest to see who can repeat the longest string of words.

Paul Bunyan Olympics:   Lumberjack games

Pedal Powered Dryer:   Welcome to Gilligan's Island

Pedro Trail Trek:   Hike the famed Pedro Trail

Pegleg Race:  One leg bound up and replaced with a peg.

Pencil Making:   I just wanna see it done

Perimeter Hike  (XXI):   Hike around the outside of camp

Philibustering:   Just like congress

Photography:   Take and develop pictures during camp

Pie Fight:   Just like the comedies of old

Pinata Smash  (XXII):  Break it open for a tasty treet.

Pinewood Regatta:   Bring a gutter or two

Pioneering Project  (XI):   Make something of logs and rope

Pirate Kings  (XVIII):   An original boardgame

Pirate Mini-Golf:  Build a miniature golf course with a pirate theme.

Pirate Punishments:   Keelhauling, Barnacle scraping & deck swabbing

Pirate Quest  (XVIII):  Quest-style game with a pirate theme.

Pirate Ship Battles:   Hit him with a broadside

Pit Crew for Lemans  (XXIX):  Prepare go carts for their trip around D-A.

Pixy Stix Contest  (XXIV):  Who can eat a giant-sized stick the fastest?

Placemat Contest:  Creation of a themed placemat for each meal. This activity would need to take place before Winter Camp,

Plant a seed:  Give each one who comes to camp a small pot and some seeds or bulbs to be grown. Plant them at camp and then bring what has grown back to camp the next year.

Poetry Contest:   Who can compose the best rhymes?

Polar Bear Swim:   Cut the hole and dive in

Politically Correct:  : This would be in conjunction with another activity. The object is that the activity must be such and must be performed in such a manner as to offend no one.

Politically Incorrect:  : This would be in conjunction with another activity. The object is that the activity must be such and must be performed in such a manner as to offend everyone.

Pony Express:  Race across camp to deliver a message.

Popular Languages:   Learn each of the 15 most common languages

Potato Guns:  Homemade cannons

Potato Torpedo Target Practice:   Yeah, whatever.

Pre-Ordeal Ceremony (1936)  (XXIII):  Recreate the famous ceremony.

Predator  (XVII):   Help your young reach maturity

Primate Date:   Who can attract the best woman

Primitive Machines:   Build primitive versions of machines

Psi Test:  We could find a test that would gauge who could "read minds" and then we could all take it. I don't think it would mean much, but it could be fun.

Puzzle Building Competition  (XII):   Build it for speed

Pyrotechnics Demo:   Let's see what we can blow up next.

Activities beginning with Q

Quilting Bee:   Sew what?

Activities beginning with R

Railroad Hike  (I):   Let's go see what the railroad left

Ranch Hand Games  (XXVIII):  Hold a round of games that might be skills one would need to live in the Old West.

Ranch Hike:   Hike Ranch road from start to finish

Rand's Believe it or Not!:  Demonstrate items with unusual stories.

Ranger Alarm  (XVII):   Install a mechanism to identify intruders

Rapelling:  Use the rapelling tower

Raze the Village  (XXXI):  Viking Hordes descend upon a harmless village.

Real Man Decathlon:   Tough events to test your mettle

Recording Session  (IX):  Record our own musical stylings.

Religious Service  (XXXII):   A scout is Reverent

Repeling:   Take the leap of faith off the tower

Return Of The Lenape  (XXIII):  Recreate the famous ceremony.

Reunion Banquet  (XX):  A get-together with food.

Reverse Hockey:  The game is played the same as normal hockey, but the points are awarded a little differently. Instead of scoring a point by getting the puck/ball in the net, you score by hitting the goalie with the puck. If you take a shot and it goes in the net, the op

Revolving Activity:   Go from station to station

Rigging Climb:   Ropes for the monkeys

Rigging Race:  Build rigging and race to the top.

Road Curling:  Curling on the road.

Roadhike:   Take a hike down the highway

Robin Hood:   Build a treehouse and live outdoors

Robot Wars:  Build robots (real, cardboard, or virtual) and duke it out.

Rock and Jock Event:  Change an event to allow Jocks to ignore some limiting rules while allowing Rock Stars unique scoring opportunities.

Rocket Launch  (XXI):   Build & launch model rockets

Rodeo:   A D-A style rodeo

Role Playing:   Randomly assigned behavior patters

Role Reversal:   Pretend to be another camper

Role Reversal Day  (XXIII):  Youth are adults and adults are youth for a day.

Rolling Donut Shoot  (XII):   Kick a soccer ball thru an old tire

Roof Sledding:   Sled off the roof of the building

Root Beerhunter  (XXII):  Russian roulette with a shaken soda.

Rope Climbing:   Who can climb the fastest?

Rope Making:   Pioneering merit badge requirement

Rotation Board Games:   When the bell sounds switch games

Round Robin Murder:   Try to be the sole survivor

Royal Rumble:  Everyone gets into a giant brawl(not real hurting) inside a certain area. To eliminate, you have to either knock a pesron completely out of the ring or make them submit without hurting them.

Rubber Band Fight:   Take aim and fire

Rubber Chicken Relay:   Just a little different baton

Rumor Spreading  (XI):   Try to make everyone believe a lie

Activities beginning with S

Saloon Slide Shuffleboard  (XXII):  Slide the mug into the bullseye for points.

Say What Karaoke:  The first round people sing along to any song of their choice. In the second round, they have like a karaoke wheel of death. Then after each round, judges assign point values to different categories (like accuracy, style and performance).

Scape Goat:   Mock 'em 'til they cry or stab someone

Scavenger Hunt  (VII):   Try to scrounge up the items on the list

Scheduled WCU:  Put Winter Camp University classes on the schedule.

Science Day:   Do experiments and pose hypotheses

Scout Concentration:   Can you remember which badge is where?

Scout Jeopardy!  (XVI):   Jailed Winter Campers for $500 please

Scout Skills Contest:  Competition in a variety of scout skills.

Scout Tic-Tac-Toe:  Set up a game where there are nine folks in the grid for tic-tac-toe. Have two play the game and get squares when they can tell if the one in the box has told the truth when asked to tell more of a thing

Scout Trivia Contest:   How much scouting lore do you really know?

Scuba Diving:   Yeah, whatever

Seance:   Let's talk to the spirits of the dead

Seed Germination:   Required for the defunct Agriculture merit badge

Self-defense lessons:   Yeah, whatever.

Semaphore:  Attempt to send a message using semaphore.

Sense Maze:  Have a maze set up with rope or string that will buzz or make a sound when touched. The goal is for each team to send one or more through the maze. The catch is that the one who goes through the maze can not see it.

Service Project  (XXXII):  Help the camp.

Shakespearean Theatre:   Welcome to the Globe

Ships in bottles:   Captain Picard makes 'em.

Shipwrecked!  (XXX):  Shipwrecked is the pirate-themed version of the drop off hike. Campers are grouped into teams and taken to various locations by a circuitous route while blindfolded. They are then expected to find their way back to camp.
In this version, the teams a

Shoot a promo video:   Actual footage with a script

Shoot Guns:  If the theme is Old West, then we should make use of the gun range at camp

Shoot-a-thon:  Teams construct shooting machines and compete in a variety of categories.

Shootout:  A good ol' fashin gun totin' shootout.

Short Day:   Compress the day by some percentage

showdown:  It a showdown you use stuff that wont hurt too much and try to kill the other team once every one dies on one team the other team wins

Signalling Contest:   Can you get the message through

Silence Contest:   Who can make the least noise longest?

Silk screening:   Make a t-shirt

Sim City Market  (XXIV):  Our own carnival.

Skate-a-thon:   Marathon skating session

Sled Jousting:   Try to knock your opponent off his sled

Sledding Contest:   Who can sled longest, furthest, fastest?

Sledding on the face:  Sled on the big hill.

Sledding relay:  Sled down, run up. Repeat.

Sling Shot:   Yeah, whatever

Smoke Signalling:  Attempt to send a message via smoke signals.

Smoker's Exclusion:   No smoking at Winter Camp

Snake Hockey  (XI):   A dangerous game from a dangerous troop

Snow Battle:   The mother of all snowball fights

Snow Bomb:  Create a bomb of snow and loft it at something

Snow Bowling:  Bowl with snowy balls and pins.

Snow Castle Building:  Make a snow castle

Snow Croquet  (XVIII):   I say Heather, is that your ball?

Snow Roll:   Can you make yourself into a snowball?

Snow Shelter Building:   Igloos and lean-tos for survival

Snow Snake:   Throw a spear through the snow

Snow Soccer  (XXVII):   The classic Game

Snow Sports  (XII):  A variety of snow-inspired fun.

Snowman Contest:   Who can make the tallest snowman?

Snowshoe Relay:  A relay race run while wearing snowshoes.

So Be It Contest:   Who can yell loudest and with most feeling

Soccer  (XXIX):   The classic Game

Soccer Obstacle Course  (X):   Kick the ball through the hazards

Soda Bottling:   With our very own capper

Softball  (VII):   Modelled after the standard game

Song and Story:  Make up songs or stories about famous Winter Campers and Winter Camp events.

Songfest:   Sing, sing a song...

Sound Hike  (V):   How far can you relay a message?

Space Invasion:   Stand too close to people

Space Quest  (XVII):  The quest in space.

Spare Tire Roll:   How far can you roll a tire?

Special Ceremony:   A ceremony of some sort

Special Ceremony (Ordeal Site)  (IV):  Recreating the classic ceremony

Speedball:   Hyper Baseball

Spelling Bee:   Who is the besst spelr at Wintr Kamp?

Spike Sledding:   Sled over an obstacle course

Spinning bat tee ball:  Put your head on the bat and do three revolutions, then bat.

Spit or Swallow:   Identify things by taste

Spy Games  (XXIV):  A variety of double-naught spy competitions

Stage Coach Robbery:  Rob a passing vehicle

Stage Play:   Put on a theatrical production

Star Wars Quest  (XXII):  Star Wars inspired multi-station game.

Steve Donohue:  Using cargo nets or other ropes, the contestants have to race to complete the rigging obstacle course.

Stock Market:   How're your investments doing?

Stocks:  Put people in stocks (not a stockade) and mock them.

Stone Game  (XX):   Play a game involving stones

Stone Tool Making:   Chip away, chip away at the stone

Story of What?:  Group storytelling.

Story-telling Game:   Players use cards for the elements

String Maze:   Try to negotiate it for speed

Subcamp highpoints:  Visit the highpoint of each subcamp

Superconductor Demo:   Is it cold in here?

Surveying & Mapping:   Cartography as a hobby

Survivor: Arctic:  Everyone is outdoors and gets voted in?

Swashbuckling Contest:   Errol Flynn look out!

Swimming  (VI):  Polar bear swim anyone?

Synchronized Sleeping:   Can you wake up at the same time?

Synchronized Tree Climbing:   Matched pairs tree climbing contest

Activities beginning with T

Table Saw:   Build a table saw at camp

Tabletop Soccer  (XVI):   In case of rain

Tag Team Chess:   Convert from 2 to 4 players.

Tag Team Hang-gliding:   I still say it should be 2 strikes

Tag Team Race:  Each team must have a car which can gauge how far it has gone. The races starts at our camp and goes on Ranch Road. The car drives one half mile from camp and then the race starts.

Talent Show:   Who is the most talented camper?

Tales by Lot:  Each one who plays the game must write down a set of words, a Name, a noun, a verb. The things which are on the list are ut in bags, one for each kind of word. Each one who plays must draw one or more things from each bag (the goal is to use all the words

Tandem Tale Tellin':  Players are paired into teams and assigned to write a story together. Each player writes a paragraph then hands it to his partner who reads what's been written, then writes the next paragraph.

Tarot Reading:   What's in the cards for you?

Taste this:   Identify things by taste

Telegraph Communication:  Set up telegraph offices between the two cabins. It may be a good way to summon people to meals and activities.

Telescope Making:   Can we do better than the Hubbel?

Test o' Strength Machine:   Can I win a kewpie doll?

The Big Trade:  Each one who comes to camp must bring a lot of some small thing, like a bead or a shell. The names of all the things are put on lots and the things are put in a big bag.Each one who comes to camp must draw from the list of things

The Cat's Quizzer:  The teams compete in a trivia contest. They get nine mistakes before they are eliminated from the contest.

The Fellowship Game:  Like Newlyweds only with someone you just met at camp. No Whoopie questions.

The Mean Game:  When we are done we get all the scores and find the mean, then play a game where we guess who wrecks the curve, who is close to the mean and who is more or less than the mean

The Ode Game:  We had a book a few years back which had an ode for each one who came to camp. I think we should make that a thing we do each year.

The Quest  (XVI):   Round robin challenge game

The Rat Race:  We could bring a group of mice or rats to camp and then give each team a group of them. The group of them could form a team of rats. The goal of each group is to teach their rats how to walk through a maze in the least time

The Stock Sale:  We would have stock, but they would be live and each team would have their own herd. The goal would be to sell your stock for the most cash at the end of Camp. There could be three or four kinds of stock (either new breeds of cow, or whole new things, lik

The story of what:  Group story-telling.

Thematic Olympics:   Compete in theme-related games

Thought of the Day:  Each day there is a thought for the day, one which might teach us a thing, like Kant's rule or an old saw. Each one who comes to camp makes his own way to say that same thing and then a vote is held for the best ones.

Tibetan Golf:  International retheming of Cross-Country Golf

Tightrope Walking:   Another in the 'circus arts' series

Time Capsule  (XXXII):   Bury your past

Tobogan Rescue:   Use a tobogan as a backboard

Toga party  (VII):   Just like Animal House

Tomato Tennis:   Play tennis with a popular fruit

Torchlight Parade  (XVI):   Think Frankenstein movie

Touch Testing:   Identify things by touch

Track and Stalk (Day):   Try to track your opponent

Track and Stalk (Night):   Try to track your opponent

Tracking & Stalking  (VIII):   Try to track your opponent

Trading Post  (XXXII):   Sell candy, pop & chips

Trading Post (expanded):   Sell patches & stuff too

Trading Spaces:  Swap bunks with a camper in another building.

Training  (XXVI):   Careful, you might learn something

Treasure Hunt  (XII):   Search for the pirate's gold

Trebuchet Building  (XV):  Build our own medieval siege engine

Tree Climbing:   Climb highest, fastest.

Tree Growing Contest:   Who can raise the best tree by next year?

Tree House Building:  Build a tree house and sleep in it.

Tree Tapping:   Make your own syrup

Treehouse Building:  Build and then sleep overnight in a treehouse.

Trek from Independence  (XXVIII):  Simulate the wagon trip out west with a camp wagon.

Tribute Dinner:  Choose a prominent Winter Camper for some recognition of his hard work by his companions.

Trivial Pursuit Contest:   Who is the real master of trivia?

Tug of War:   Pull off against your opponent(s)

Tug of War with pulley:   Losers wind up airborne

Turkey bowling:   Use frozen poultry to clear the lane

Twice-told Tales:  One from each team gets to read or watch a tale. He then gets some time to tell the tale to his team. The team then takes a quiz on the tale and the two teams try to score the most points on the quiz.

Twilight CC Golf:  Play CC golf in the waning light

Twilight Zone:  A card is chosen at random for the theme of the night's activitity or as the nature of the Universe for the evening's events.

Two Games:  We play two games which are like, but not quite the same on the same field with four teams. Each team draws by lot which game it will play, but does not know who its foes are or what game the ones who aren't its foes have to play.

Activities beginning with U

UFO Building:   I think it's the National Enquirer

Ultimate Frisbee  (XXIX):  Kind of like football.

Uphill Long Jump:   How far can you jump up a hill?

Upside Down Puzzle Building:   Now try it without the picture

Activities beginning with V

Vague Game:   Well, it's um, a game, where you sort of..

Variable volleyball in the Round:  This is a variation of 4-way volleyball. Basically the court is a large circle which can be subdivided in four (or more sections that will vary in size thourghout the game. On any given volley your team may need to defend half the circle area, or perhaps

Video Game Tournament  (XXIII):   Who can prevail at an assortment of games?

Video Game-a-thon:   Who can prevail at an assortment of games?

Video night:  A night of watching videos.

Viking Explorers  (XIX):  Explore the world in this custom boardgame.

Viking Olympics  (XIX):  Compete in a variety of norse events.

Vine Jousting:   Swing at each other and swat away

Viral Infestation (Reverse CTO)  (XXII):  Attempt to plant your flag in the enemy's base.

Volleyball (conventional)  (X):   The classic game

Activities beginning with W

Wacky Decathlon  (X):   Twisted version of the Olympics with 10 events

Wacky Olympics  (XIII):   Twisted version of the Olympics

Wacky Pentathlon  (XI):   Twisted version of the Olympics with 5 events

Walk the Plank:   Into a pile of snow

Walking Race  (XXVII):  Try to arrive the fastest while having one foot on the ground at all times.

Walter Raleigh Vertical Challenge:  Compete to make alternating stacks of milk crates for maximum height. Must stand on one stack at all times.

War Games:  Multi-station event based on war

Water Balloon Fight:   Fill 'em up and try to stay dry

Water Balloon Toss:   How far apart can you and your partner be?

waterball:  Figthing with fire hoses.

Watershed Perimeter Hike:   Hike the watershed area

WC 50 letters:   Write a letter to the future

WC Album:   Make a soundtrack for the event

WC Band:   Combine the musicians for an original song

WC Biathalon:   Running & 5 card draw poker

WC Pickup Band:   Play whatever is at hand

WC Promo Song:   Make a theme song for Winter Camp

WC Soundtrack:   Theme music for Winter Camp

WC Standard Time:   Move the clock ahead 77 minutes

Web Page School:  My thought is that we should hold a class and teach those who take it how to make their own web page. We could hold one class each day and have a new group in each class

What next?:  There are lots of tools which say they will tell us what is to come. We could bring some to camp, then try to use each one and make notes. We could have a list of things we want to know

What's that smell?:   Identify things by smell

Where is that Light Bulb:   Yeah, whatever

Which Steve?:  A trivia contest based on the people with the same first name. People come up the the appropriate last name to answear questions.

While You Were Out:  A tv like version of Kim's Game.

While You Were Out!:  A large scale Kim's game. Try to guess what was changed when you left the room.

Who the hell?:   Identify people by description

Whose Line is it Anyway?:  Attempt to replicate the famous improv show.

Whose Line is it Anyways?:  Recognize famous quotes or complete the ceremony.

William Tell Archery:   Are you sure you're aiming at the apple?

Windmill  (III):   Erect the wind machine

Winter Camp Adventure  (X):  A late-night randomized event.

Winter Camp Celebrity Roast:  One camper is deemed the celebrity and his friends roat him.

Winter Camp Family Celebration:  Invite families to camp for a party.

Winter Camp Future Olympics  (XX):   Test yourself now and again

Winter Camp Soundtrack  (XV):  Create our own CD of Winter Camp music.

Winter Camp Squares  (XXVII):  Winter Campers take to the grid in this version of Hollywood Squares

Winter Camp Trivia Contest  (IX):  Who knows the most about Winter Camp?

Wood Burning:   Create decorative items with heat

Woods Battleship:  Fire shots into the woods to sink the opposing ships

World Games Emporium:  Traditional games from a variety of regions and cultures.

Wounded Spy  (IX):   From your Scout fieldbook

Wrestling matches:  A daily Big Time challenge

Wrestling: video game style:  We have a wrestling video game tournament

Wumpus Hunt:   Divide camp into grids, he's out there

Activities beginning with X

X Marks the Spot  (XXXI):  Teams solve a variety of clues to complete a giant tic-tac-toe game

Xanth Day:   Puns and plays on words become the rules

Xenobiology:   Dissect an alien

XXX Quest:  A quest type game with X's as a theme

XYZPDQ:   Yeah, whatever.

Activities beginning with Y

Yak Herding:   Joe Hall will supply all the Yaks we need.

Yarn Ball Contest:   Whose is the biggest?

Yellow Journalism:   Slant it without lying

Yes Man Contest:   Who's the biggest suck?

Yeti Dodgeball  (XXIX):  Dodgeball with a very large ball.

Yo Yo Contest:   Who can do the best tricks?

Yodelling:   Swiss Miss anyone?

Activities beginning with Z

Zamboni Construction:   Yeah, whatever.

Zan-Tec's Game  (XIII):  A game of building and resposiblity.

Zone of Death:  Those who built the box would then put their box in a zone where it could fight with the works made by the rest of the teams.You would win the game if your box beat all the rest.

Zoo:   Create our own zoo of animals

Zymurgy:   The science of fermentation

The design and content of this page Copyright (C) 1997-2000 by Steve Donohue for the Winter Camp Future Society
If you believe we are using copyrighted material, please contact the webmaster
All rights reserved