7 Creative & Easy Hula Hoop Games for Your Troop Meeting

This is an awesome teamwork game that gets the girls moving and thinking together!

Because your girls are usually of different heights, they will really have to cooperate to win.

What You Need: One hula hoop per team.

How to Play: 

1. Divide your troop into two teams and have each team form a circle holding hands.

2. Before sealing the circle, hang a hula hoop over one girl’s arm.

3. On your signal, the girls must pass the hoop completely around the circle without ever letting go of each other's hands.

4. The girls have to step through and maneuver the hoop down their arms and bodies, passing it around until it returns to the starting person. The first team to finish wins!

If you are running a summer day camp or looking for a great outdoor meeting activity, this is a total crowd-pleaser.

What You Need: A plastic kiddie pool, hula hoops, bubble solution, and materials to make small bubble wands.

How to Play: 

1. Have the girls start by crafting their own individual bubble wands.

2. Fill a small plastic kiddie pool with a giant batch of bubble solution.

3. Dip a full-sized hula hoop flat into the pool, lift it up steadily, and watch the girls make giant, human-sized bubbles!

This game is a safe twist on standard historical games. Traditionally, pioneers used a stick to roll wooden hoops down dirt roads. To keep things safe for an indoor or hall environment, we ditch the sticks and use our hands!

What You Need: One hula hoop per lane.

How to Play: 

1. Set up a starting line on one end of a large hall or gym space.

2. Form relay teams. The first girl must roll the hula hoop down to the other end of the hall and back using only her hands.

3. This is harder than it looks because the hoops love to get away from them!

Leader Tip: If the hoop keeps rolling away, place half the team on one end of the room and the other half on the opposite end. 

Have the girls practice rolling the hoop straight to their teammate across the room instead of running with it.

This partner game is fantastic for building trust and communication skills. It can easily be customized for a messy summer day outside or a dry day indoors.

What You Need: Orange cones, a large table to crawl under, hula hoops, blindfolds, plastic buckets, and large plastic cups.

How to Play:

1. Set up a winding path using orange cones and a large wooden table. Place hula hoops far apart along the maze.

2. Inside each hula hoop, place a bucket full of water and a large Solo cup.

3.  Pair the girls up. One girl is the "Guide" (blindfolded) and the other is the "Navigator" (can see).

4. The Navigator must verbally talk her blindfolded partner through the cones and under the table.

5. When the blindfolded girl steps inside a hula hoop checkpoint, she must feel around to locate the bucket, scoop a cup of water, and pour it completely over her own head!

6. Once the water pour is done, they navigate to the next checkpoint. The fastest pair wins. Swap roles so everyone gets a turn.

Optional: Have an adult gently mist the girls with a water hose sprayer while they navigate the maze!

Think of this as musical chairs, but focused entirely on teamwork instead of elimination. It is a fantastic game choice if you have a very large troop.

What You Need: Several hula hoops (smaller hoops work best).

How to Play:

1. Spread hula hoops all over your playing area. The floor represents the "Ocean" and the hoops are "Islands."

2. Tell the girls to walk or pretend to swim around the ocean area.

3. When the leader yells "SHARK!", every girl must quickly step onto an island hoop to stay safe.

4. As the game continues, start taking islands away. The girls must work together to share the remaining hoops, squeezing closer together to keep everyone's feet out of the "ocean."

5. The ultimate goal is to see if the whole troop can successfully work together to fit onto the very last island!

Leader Tip: If you have a large group, set up two separate ocean sections to avoid overcrowding. If you don't have hoops on hand, sheet pieces of old newspaper work perfectly, too!

Give your girls a chance to perfect their hoop-rolling accuracy with a fun, bracket-style tournament.

What You Need: Hula hoops and a clear open space.

How to Play: 

1. Give all the girls a few minutes to practice rolling their hula hoops straight ahead to test their distance.

2. Set up a 1-on-1 tournament bracket. Two girls stand at the starting line and roll their hoops at the exact same time.

3. The girl whose hoop rolls the furthest moves onto the next round.

4. Continue the face-offs until only the final two girls are standing, then hold a final "roll-off" to crown your tournament champion!

Don't throw away those old, worn-out t-shirts! You can reuse them for a fantastic craft project that coordinates perfectly with a textile or recycling badge.

What You Need: A hula hoop and old t-shirts torn into long strips.

How to Do It: 

1. Stretch several strips of t-shirt yarn straight across the center of the hoop to create your layout spokes (like a bicycle wheel).

2. Tie a strip to the very center and teach the girls how to weave over and under the spokes in a continuous circle.

3. Tie new strips on as you go to expand the rug outward.

4. Once it reaches your desired size, snip the loops off the hula hoop frame and tie the ends securely to finish your woven rug.

Troop Leader Advice: Remind the girls not to pull their weaving strings too tightly! If the tension is too tight, the rug will instantly curl up and look like a winter hat the second you cut it off the hoop.