5 Fun Games With Cotton Balls To Play With Your Troop

Over the years as a leader I have tried a number of different games with cotton balls. Cotton balls and Scouts two words that go together so well and = LOTS AND LOTS OF FUN.

If you don’t have cotton balls in your supplies it is one thing that comes in a large quantity and for a pretty low price: Cotton Balls (240 Balls). 

If you throw in a little duct tape with your older girls and tell them they can put it anywhere on their bodies be prepared what they create. The things we do to keep our older girls entertained.

We took and divided the girls up in teams, and we told each girl to take as much petroleum jelly they think they need and put on their nose. All they needed was a small amount but girls had no idea what the game was so some had it dripping off their noses, after each girl has taken their jelly. We set up two bowls full of cotton balls in front of each of the teams and at the other end of room two empty bowls.

On the word go, the first girl in each line stuck her nose into the cotton balls and got as many as possible to stick, then hurried to the end to be dropped off in bowl set up there, no hands allowed. Then the girl hurried back and the next one goes, game is over after the whole team had a turn. Team with the most cotton balls in container at end of room won.

Each girl got a spring type clothespin; I threw cotton balls all over the room. I gave each girl a brown lunch bag to collect the cotton balls. I gave them one minute to do the collecting. The girl with the most cotton ball won the round. Then had the girls throw the cotton balls around and did another round.

We formed two teams and gave each girl a spoon except for the first girl in line she got a bag of cotton balls and the last girl in line got a empty bag.

We had the team line up in a close zigzag formation. On GO the first girl placed a cotton ball on the second girls’ spoon, then the second girl dropped her cotton ball onto the spoon of the third girl. This continued to the end of the line where the last girl grabs the cotton ball and places it in her bag. If any of the girls dropped a cotton balls it could not be picked up and a new cotton ball was started again down the line. No one was allowed to touch the cotton balls with their hands except the first and last one in line, the team with most cotton ball in bag won. 

We played it two ways, one cotton ball at a time going down the line till the end before a new cotton ball could start and the other was a steady flow one right after another, this made the game a little more hectic.

We had 2 girls at a time play against each other, while setting at a table, we blindfolded them gave each of them a extra large spoon, empty bowl and placed a bowl full of cotton balls in front of them. The girls had one minute to try to scoop as many cotton balls and fill their bowl while holding it on their head.

We gave each girl a cotton ball and a straw; we put masking tape down the middle of long tables and a line of tape for starting and finish line. The girls had to blow the cotton ball to the finish line by blowing thru straw. We had play offs after all the girls raced.

Enjoy the games!

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