Playing dodgeball with a winter/Chanukah twist

You play music as they play ultimate ultimate frisbee, trying to get the frisbee to land in a towel bin on each side, and if the music stops then the frisbee must switch to the opposing team

There has been a murder! In order to solve the murder of whomever you choose (pick someone high up in camp) you must have people from the audience come up to the stage and act you through the last week of the victims life. Include things like seeing a musical, participating in a water aerobics class, or even going to the opera. At the end, choose someone from each group to bring back on stage, and have the crowd vote on the murderer.

Scavenger hunt around camp with activities at each location

A group tries to touch a spot on camp without getting tagged by the guards.

A game where it allows two people who typically don’t talk to each other get to spend time together!

Campers create a visual timeline of their summer, highlighting meaningful moments, funny memories, inside jokes, and standout activities. This activity encourages reflection, storytelling, and a celebration of their personal journey at camp.

In this high-energy, team-based activity, campers are split into three groups and given a series of creative missions to complete, from goofy dance routines to Jewish hero skits to bunk-themed handshakes and chants. Each mission blends Jewish and non-Jewish elements, encouraging campers to be imaginative, collaborative, and just a little bit silly. Teams are scored on creativity, teamwork, and spirit, with a prize for the winners.

Campers will make matching bunk bracelets that are both cute and personal. Each camper will choose a bead that represents their answer to a camp-themed question, turning the bracelets into wearable souvenirs full of memories, inside jokes, and shared meaning.

Campers work together to “cook up” the ultimate recipe for a magical summer as a bunk. They get to reflect on the experiences, values, and relationships that made this summer special.

Certain kindnesses can be easy! Holding a door, helping a friend, etc. Deep kindness requires being kind when it’s not the easy or comfortable thing to do. While confetti kindness is still kindness, deep kindness is where we can make the most impact on others, brighten people’s days, or make them feel great!

Writing affirmations to the tune of a song

Explain that the goal of the activity is to show how small actions can make the world better, and everyone has the power to make a difference. Give each camper an index card with a different letter. Ask them to think of a word or phrase starting with their letter that represents a positive action or value (e.g., "C" for "Compassion" or "Community Service").

High intensity basketball relay races that provide an opportunity for both people that like basketball and those that have an aversion to it.

Campers are to be given different “un-talents” - some Jewish and some funny! Campers then have to put their own spin on it to make it scary (just like monsters inc.) the tzevet will the rank the scariness on a meter.

The craziest cooking challenge ever!

A shark tank type competition to decide what the edah song will be.

Get your best hashki questions ready!

Like the amazing race except camp chores

A day of camp-past.

Everyone has strong opinions about camp... but who has the better argument?

Edah split into 6 groups with a theme and they’re given an act to practice and perform.

Checkers but life sized!

Camp + this yom = a love story.

Capture the flag using hebrew and storyline descriptions of Beauty and the Beast the night before the halutzim play to prepare our chanichim in a fun, active peula.

Campers will celebrate the USA while gaining a respect for carnival festivities.

Yom Opposite Day but branded as a way kids won't rebel

Whole camp celebrates the ancient journey and top tier holiday of peach

Everyone is dressed in all black. There is a hidden glow stick hidden in camp and the chanichim (in their groups) need to find the missing glow stick. Tzevet is hidden throughout camp with flashlights catching the chanichim. If they get caught they have to go back to the starting point and complete and activity in order to start again.

A yom full of Jolly Cheer

What Do You Meme? with a camp twist. (Great for end of kayitz!)

Ahoy Matey! Let's go on a fun cruise adventure.

Maccabiah but tiny!

Campers act out song titles for their edah-mates with the goal of trying to guess the song correctly.

Get to know your tzevet by dumping water on then!

Write the edah song!

A peulat erev combing edot of Halutzim and Shoafim, (if needed can be other edot)

Learning the names of places around camp, ivrit, and get to know other chanichim in the edah while competing for the gold medal!

Chanichim make up dances in groups to songs with the words "stars" in them. Plus, edah-wide stargazing hashkavah!

Scrabble with an active twist!

Learn more about your tzevet while engaging in a challenging puzzle.

Campers will dress up as elderly people and play bingo.

A cooking competition that forces the chanichim to use their manners (and their best British accents)!

A day that's all about doing things a little backwards

Hide and search for treasure all around camp.

Have your kids pick something to change about camp big or small and campaign with signatures and donations around camp.

A fun and active twist on ultimate frisbee!

Variations of Sharks and Minnows. Make various versions of it - Great for Shark Week!

Dinosaur kingdoms (teams) will try to gather as many dinosaur eggs as they can while protecting their own

Kids go on a scavenger hunt around camp to try and find Nemo.

Get to know each other game by splitting into groups and having them answer questions.

Like twosies but with a twist…

A yom daled where each activity starts with the letter d or daled

Capture the flag (CTF) is a traditional outdoor sport where two or more teams each have a flag (or other markers) and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base", and bring it safely back to their own base. Enemy players can be "tagged" by players in their home territory and, depending on the rules, they may be out of the game, become members of the opposite team, sent back to their own territory, or frozen in place ("in jail") until freed by a member of their own team.

Star-gaze and then have the kids create their own constellations.

Sharks and Minnows with a Jewish holiday twist.

This game is a twist of Sharks and Minos inspired by Tu B’shvat.

A boats/submarine making relay race based on the four Beatles: George, Ringo, John and Paul.

A passover/toy story themed peulat erev that leverages trivia and silly animal walks to engage chanichim.

CWBAT each participate in a station that consists of a challenge to save Joel who was kidnapped by the Greeks.

Chanichim play knockout acting like dinosaurs.

You’ll match up two to three campers together and give them a stereotype that you might find in middle or high school (goth, hippie, sports, girly girl, country club girl, geek), showing that we all might identify with one stereotype or two more than another, but we can all still be friends.

Creative icebreakers and prompts that can be used on their own, or with the Ice Breaker Icebreaker - the icebreaker where you break the ice by breaking real ice.

From Cruise ships to summer camps, Bingo is the place to be

Ultimate Frisbee... but a lot more slippery.

American Ninja Warrior with a camp twist!

Building and defending their "palace/castle"

Get to bond with a specific person by sharing a cart. Learn about and prepare for driving!

Edah wide untalent show!

Introduce chanichim to service project options

Chanichim will be put in pairs and get to know each other better!

The Rosh Edah has gone missing! Chanichim have to complete a scavenger hunt and challenges at each location in order to get clues to find the Rosh.

Painting becomes a team activity!

Race all around the machaneh completing fun challenges based on The Amazing Race.

A reverse scavenger hunt where you give the campers and item and some clues and they have to figure out who the item belongs to

Chanichim have to survive the Zombie Apoclaypse while gathering pieces to a puzzle for an antidote to the zombie virus.

Have conversations about educational topics.

Bringing cooking game shows to camp!

Using the game “one-word story” to teach about injustice in our society. By using a fun game in which normally everyone is equal, you can teach chanichim about systematic racism and give them a taste of what it feels like to be silenced or to have power over the narrative.

A large-scale, Ramah-based version of the classic board game RISK.

A Stock Market-themed peulat erev about camp.

Fun water activity for a nice day!! Campers will be divided into two teams for some friendly competition.

Half talent-show, half competition, this is a great peulat erev you can do within the first few days of camp. Campers will get to meet the other kids in their edah and learn cool things about each other.

Make a dance to chorus of a song with your twosie partner.

Give each group a Hebrew song and they will make a lip sync to a related English song.

Definitions, parts of speech, and being pied in the face with whipped. A messy and exciting twist on a time-honored tradition of spelling complex words that no one knew existed.

Create captions for funny pictures.

Create the apples to apples card at the start of the summer. Easy to use and access when it rains. Cabins can be nominated to add/create card for the deck as well.

Groups design “Mario Kart” and then as an edah you meet up and “race” on a roadmap. Optional- have madrichim positioned around map to throw bonuses and obstacles to the racing cars.

kids in groups have to use materials provided to create a dish and food presentation - it may require a backstory, a parsha connection, or a specific scene.