What Are Back Pocket Games and Activities?
Back pocket games are quick and sometimes ongoing activities that can be run without any planing, tools or prior preparation. Back Pocket Games generally use things that can be typically found on the ground (sticks, rocks, leaves etc..).
When Should I Use Back Pocket Games?
These games are great to keep to in your “back pocket” for when a group needs a break from more serious activities. I generally use these back pocket games when I’m with a group and need to fill some time. Maybe we’re running early for an activity or maybe I just ran an activity that took less time that expected. This is the perfect time for a back pocket game!
Here are the current Back Pocket Games that we have on Teambly.com:
- Birthday Log
- Blind Maze/Treasure Hunt
- Blind Puzzle
- Blindfold Boffer
- Buggies
- Caught ya Peekin’
- Counting Concentration
- Dance-Dance Evolution
- Enemy Protector
- Evolution (Ultimate Human)
- Flash Flood
- Freeze
- Frogie!
- Fugitive
- Gauntlet
- Giants, Wizards, and Elves
- Group Photo Shot
- Huckle Buckle
- Jousting
- Knights/Maidens/Cavaliers
- Land Skis
- Lap Sit
- Lava River
- Lego Team Building Initiative
- Minefield Team Building Initiative Task
- Mingle Mingle
- Minute Mysteries
- Mouse Trap Initiative Task
- Move Your Butt/ Shake Your Booty/The West Wind Blows
- Never Can Tell Games
- Parachute Games
- Predator/Prey
- Raccoon Shapes
- Road Kill
- Rock-Paper-Scissors Baseball
- Running Scream
- Shrinking Island
- Sword and the Stone
- Tag Games
- The Human Knot
- Toxic Waste Retrieval
- Trust Falls
- What are you doing?
- Yes (Stare and More)
My Personal Favorite Back Pocket Games
As with anything, we all have our favorites. My old standby that I seem to gravitate to more often than not when in need for a quick game are the never can tell games. These are easy to setup and can be run with a group in an ongoing way throughout their experience at your facility.
Most of the back pocket games above just live in my head at this point but you may need a copy that you can easily print out. At Teambly.com we sell a back pocket games e-book for just this purpose. It’s fully printable and helps me to keep updating this site with the latest games for you to check out. You can grab it in our books section.
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