12 Fun Indoor Games for You to Play With Your Girl Scout Troop

Building an obstacle course is a fun activity that helps improve teamwork and coordination. The best part you can use available room items to build obstacles and then compete in teams to complete the course in the shortest time. 

Ideas:

• Put down pillows for the girls to jump from one to the next. Or, the girls could jump over the pillows!
• Climb over ottomans.
• Allow only jumping, crawling, and crab walking from one area of the course to another.
• Perform various exercises such as 20 jumping jacks, etc.
• Crawl under tables
• Jump through into a hula hoop circle

You can also get some supplies to have around at meeting to use for course.

In this game, all you need is a balloon and a line which can be a tape to divide the room into two halves. The objective is to keep the balloon off the ground and on the opposing team's side using only your hands.

One great activity to have sitting around to use during a meeting when you need a break from the regular activities. Make an airplane and fly it around. You can make them with paper or you can buy a book that has some great step-by-step planes to make as a group.

Relay races are a classic game that involves passing a baton (or any object) from one girl to another. The team that completes the relay first wins. You can add fun elements like passing a balloon, skipping sideways, crawling across the floor, or hopping.

This is an easy-to-play game in which all you need is some dice and you're ready to go. Girls will roll a dice and whatever number they draw they must complete that task. 

Have all the girls spread out in the meeting area. Pick one girl to be the leader and she will yell "Walk" and everyone playing must walk around. Then the leader will yell "Stop" then everyone will stop.   You can get creative and introduce new commands like "Jump", "Sit", "Dance", and "Stand Up" and see how the girls each respond.

In this game, you will pick one girl to be the police officer. Have them move out of earshot of the rest of the group while they decide who will be the murderer.  Once that girl is chosen she must choose a simple signal like patting her leg, or touching her ear and share that with everyone in the group. 

Bring the police officer girl back to the circle and have them stand in the center of the circle of all the girls. When the murderer makes eye contact with someone and uses their signal, that person is dead and leaves the circle. Close the circle again each time someone is out. The police officer gets three guesses to find the murderer.

Everyone is a fly and one person is made the frog. One girl leaves the room while this is decided. When they come back they get to the center of the circle everyone is a fly, and the detective is trying to find the frog. Instead of choosing a signal, the frog sticks their tongue out while making eye contact to kill the flies.

In this game, girls have to pick up marbles with their feet and place them into a container on the other side of the room. Younger girls you may just want to have them sit in place and move marbles from one bowl to another with their feet. 

This game is very simple and more of a conversation starter. Print of this printable and have ready for a fun discussion with your girls. Would you rather be a bee or be a bird? 

Anyone can do a scavenger hunt, and you can make up one on the fly.  If you need a simple one to use at a meeting give this one a try.