feather relay

This is a great game to play with a small group of students (10 to 20 or so). If you have a larger youth group, then you will just want to select a few volunteers to play while the rest of the group watched.

Materials Needed:  Feathers, paper plates

Instructions:

1. Create relay teams of about five students each.  Line the teams up in single file lines, relay style.

2. Hand the first person on each team a paper plate with a feather on it.

4. Each team member must race to the end of the room (or to wherever you decide is the end) balancing the feather on the plate. 

5. Once they get to the end of the room, they must turn around and walk back.

6. They CANNOT drop the feather.  If they drop their feather, they must go back to the beginning of the line and try again. (If you think this will drag the game on too long, you can just allow them to stop where they are, place the feather back on the plate, and then start again.)

7. Once they make it back to their team, they must pass the plate and feather to the next person to do the same thing until the whole team has a turn.

The team that finishes the relay first wins.  Have prizes ready to give to the entire winning team – which is why we suggest making the teams no larger than five students!