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As my last act as club youth director, I'm running a fun kids/coaches/parents skills and games day.

I have some ideas but am looking for more. They don't have to be anything like drills - best they not be, in fact - and so am thinking of 'Taskmaster-like' challenges that involve rugby equipment.

Thoughts!?

I've been trying to run some silly, but still related, things on Tuesday evenings. One that went OK was a blind maze. We had a load of chairs and a hoop on the ground. The blindfolded person had to get into the hoop without hitting anything. The others are there to shout instructions. Having several teams going in different directions helps keep the noise up, lots of people on each team helps keep conflicting instructions going, until they organise themselves better.

Then there's silent organisation, get them to get into height order without speaking. Make it harder by getting them to get into age order etc (tough on younger ones to work out).

It didn't work well for us, but if you get a group of 5/6 of them, put one hand out with two fingers out, at about shoulder height (or shortest ones shoulders) in a circle. Then place a light hulahoop on the fingers, tell them to bring it to the ground. It's really tough since they feel it come off their fingers and chase it up, so it goes the wrong way until they work together and have confidence in each other. Once they've done it though, that's it.

Very interested in other ideas though. Stacking cups with strings/rubber bands between them (have to pull tight to pick it up etc) is one I want to try.

Niegs wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:29 pm As my last act as club youth director, I'm running a fun kids/coaches/parents skills and games day.

I have some ideas but am looking for more. They don't have to be anything like drills - best they not be, in fact - and so am thinking of 'Taskmaster-like' challenges that involve rugby equipment.

Thoughts!?

Challenges like the live ones at the end of the show - choose from a rugby ball, ping pong ball, football, beach ball, have to throw it furthest without going past a line. Eliminate one contestant each time and you’re not allowed to choose the same ball twice.

Fastest to put a scrum cap, shorts and boots on while holding a rugby ball with both hands.

Skittles with a rugby ball.