7 Ways To Make Dodgeball Games More Extreme
We all love good dodgeball games! Not only does it unleash safe foam-fueled chaos in the youth club but it’s also a great cathartic exercise for leaders and young people to take out their frustrations on each other!
- Replace the balls with Nerf guns
Nerf guns and bullets are fantastic! They’re soft, they’re fast and they aim well! You can take it to a whole new level and add goggles and body armour too. Don’t buy branded, shops like £stretcher tend to have cheep & cheerful versions that work well enough. - Replace the hall with a box fort for urban warfare
This takes some prep time – but well worth it. Fill the room with 5ft high cardboard box walls in L and U shapes with the odd window cutout. You can gaffer tape these together or leave them loose to add growing battle damage to a room. Local supermarkets are usually very happy to give you as many flat packed boxes as you want! - Add teams and senarios
Different colour balls (or nerf guns bullets) with personal lives and bases. Add some wide game scenarios like capture the flag. - Make it wet
Outdoor dodgeball games with sponges and buckets… need I say more? - Add gun placements, cluster bombs and mines
A couple of upturned gopack tables with a huge store of ammo makes a great gun placement. Plastic bags filled with ball pool balls are fab cluster bombs. Finally soft play or home gym mats can be constantly added to the floor as mines. - Use the dragon
The group starts off in a fast moving conga line, when the line gets hit it breaks at the person it touches (and they’re out) into two lines. The dragons keep getting smaller – it’s last man standing! - Blindfold the throwers
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