Camp Weary Parent Day 1 - Here, There & Everywhere

Summer is here and we are kicking off a new series at Weary Parent aptly called - Camp Weary Parent! Christine and I will be sharing ideas, activities, and survival tactics for a summer of fun with our tweens and teens. Of course, we’d love your input too, so feel free to leave us links to summer fun activities.

Let’s kick off the summer with a fun game that will get kids moving, thinking and laughing. The game is called “Here, There and Everywhere”.

What you need:

• A group of kids of any age - the game can be played with 1-100 kids
• An adult or older child to act as the “caller”
• A large enough area for kids to move - obviously the larger the group the larger the space you need. Can be played outdoors, on a sports court, gymnastics floor or even in the pool.

How to play:

• Define your play space and then identify 3 landmarks (a tree, a cone, a tape line, or any other visual) - name them “Here”, “There” and “Everywhere”
• Start all the kids on “Here”
• Then the caller gets creative! Caller says “Go there” and all the kids go to the spot identified as “There” - anyone who goes to the wrong place is out. The next command gets called - “Skip everywhere” and anyone who goes to the wrong place is out. Keep repeating with new ways to get here, there and everywhere until you declare a winner or everyone has had enough.

Command ideas:

• Go here
• Skip there
• Sit everywhere
• Stand everywhere
• Jump here
• Hop there
• Swim everywhere
• Spin here
• Bounce there
• Crawl everywhere

We had a group of 25 gymnasts playing this game on a big floor mat and it was too much fun. Not only did they think it was a lot of fun, but they got some exercise out of it too.

Don’t miss any of the fun - visit the Camp Weary Parent page for a complete listing of all the activities.