Each Beaver removes shoes and places in a pile. The Beavers move to a starting line 10 to 15 feet away, and at the signal the Beavers try to retrieve and put on their own shoes (not necessary to tie or buckle. The first Beaver back to the starting line wins. What animal Am I ? Wrap as many different animal crackers as there are Beavers; place in bowl. Beavers for a circle. Each Beaver selects one wrapped animal cracker and unwraps the animal cracker but does not let the other Beavers see it. Beavers take turns standing inside the circle, acting like the animal on the Beaver's cracker. The other Beavers then try to guess which animal is being imitated.

Squat tag

One Beaver is designated 'It'; the other Beavers scatter over the game area. The only way to avoid being tagged is to squat down and call out 'Squat'. "It" tries to tag one of the Beavers in order to exchange places.

Coin Drop

Preparation: Large wide-mouth container full of water with a small jar or glass sunk in the middle; five small coins for each Beaver; a few additional coins for play-offs. How: The container is set on the floor, and one at a time the Beavers try to drop their coins from a standing position into the sunken jar or glass. Each Beaver's score is kept, and a tie for first is decided with a sudden death play-off. The winner keeps the coins outside the small jar or glass; the runner-up gets to keep the coins in the small jar or glass.

Colours

One Beaver is selected to start the game. The Beaver says "I am thinking of something that is in this room that is (names the colour of the object.)" The rest of the Beavers try to guess the correct object. The first Beaver to guess correctly becomes the new selector of the object to be guessed.

Fishing for paper clips

Preparation: Empty a box of paper clips into a cardboard box with high sides; a magnet on a string. How: the cardboard box of paper clips is placed in the center of a table. The first Beaver is given the magnet on the string and tries to get as may paper clips as he can.

Peanut butter and jelly

All of the Beavers stand in a circle. Beavers pass one of the balls, "Peanut Butter," around the circle. To make things sticky, the second ball, "Jelly," is tossed from Beaver to Beaver in any direction. Beavers must keep both balls moving without stopping. The object of the game is for the Jelly to catch up with the Peanut Butter. When one Beaver catches both balls, everyone shouts "Peanut butter and jelly!" Then everyone starts again.

Airplane race

Preparation: One cone-shaped paper cup with a hole cut in the bottom and 15 feet of string or twine for each team. Pass the string through the hole in the cup. How: Beavers are divided into teams of three. Two Beavers on each team hold either end of the twine and line up side-by-side with the other teams. The third member of each team stands at one end of the twine with the paper cup and, at a given signal, blows into the cup to move it the length of the twine. The first team to get the cup moved the length of the twine wins the game.

Bang relay

A pile of paper bags for each team should be on chairs at the end of the room. Every team member, in turn, races up to this pile; inflates and bursts a bag; runs back and touches off the next Beaver.

Thirsty Race

Requires jugs of water, tumblers and straws. Each runner pours out a tumblerful of water and drinks it through a straw, before returning to the starting point.

Pea Relay

Each Beaver carries a pea in a teaspoon from one point to another. Place an equal number of peas in a container for each lodge, and an empty container in another point in the room.

William Tell race

Each Beaver runs with an apple (or other object) balanced on his head. The event may be either for individuals or relay teams.

Balloon Overhead

All Beavers stand for this, the teams being in two straight lines, facing inwards. The end Beaver of each line holds a balloon, and at the starting signal they pat them over their heads to their neighbours. The second Beavers pass similarly to the third, and so the balloons travel down the lines. The first to reach the end marks the winning team.

Floor balloon

Played with all Beavers sitting on the floor, in two straight lines. Each Beaver should sit with legs straight forward, so that his feet are pressed against the feet of the opposite opponent. Then the balloon is patted by hand, and a goal scored each time it is made to fall to the floor behind the back of either team.

Balloon football

Two teams line up facing each other. A string down the middle marks the line each team may not cross. Each team has a balloon. It is important that two balloons are in play all the time, as this makes the game more exciting. At the word 'Go', each team has to try to get their balloon over the heads of the other team, and onto the floor behind them. Each time they do this, they score a goal. The teams must not divide into front and back rows for attack and defence.

Fly swat

One Beaver is blindfolded, and stands at the middle of the room. He holds a baton of rolled-up newspaper. Whenever he hears a buzz at his ear he swipes at the one who is making the sound. He must never swipe except when there is a buzzing. No Beaver should buzz except by the ear of the blindfolded one.

Wool Gathering

Scatter about the meeting place 3" lengths of coloured wool, and allow your Beavers to collect them. You can either assign a point value to each individual colour and the team with the most points wins.

Checker golf

A smooth floor is needed for this. Mark chalk rings for 'holes' at convenient points, numbering them from 1 to 9 in proper golf fashion. The balls are checkers or wood circles instead of golf balls, and are driven along by being flicked by finger and thumb.

Musical Bumps

Everyone jumps up and down in time to the music. Each time it stops, they all sit down. Pick out the last one to sit down, but don't make them sit out for the rest of the game. The winners can be the ones who have never been last.

Perpetual Motion

Beavers sit in a circle on the floor and count off so that each Beaver has a number. Place a frisbee or a metal plate on the floor in the center of the circle. The first Beaver gets up, turns the disc on edge and spins it as you would a coin. As the Beaver sits down, he calls out the number of another Beaver. The Beaver whose number is called jumps up, gets the disc before it stops, give it another spin, and calls out another Beaver's number before sitting down. Beavers continue calling each other's numbers and keeping the disc spinning. If the disc completely stops spinning, a Beaver starts it again. The object of the game is to co-operate in keeping the disc spinning, not to trick other Beavers.

Kangaroo relay

Divide the group into two teams and have Beavers line up, one behind the other. Place a chair about ten feet in front of each team. The first Beavers place a ball between their knees, hop around the chair, and return to tag the next Beavers in line. Beavers may touch the ball with their hands to pass it to the next Beaver or to pick it up when dropped, but they cannot move while touching the ball with their hands. The first team to send every member around the chair and back is the winner.

Water Brigade (Outside game)

Divide the Beavers into two teams. Teams stand in two parallel lines. Place a bucket at either end of each team. Fill the buckets at one end of each team with water while the buckets on the opposite end remain empty. Give each Beaver a disposable cup. The object of the game is for each team to transfer the water from the filled bucket - cup by cup - to the empty buckets. When the leader says "go", the first Beavers on each team dip their cups into their buckets. The water is passed from Beaver to Beaver on each team by pouring it into the next cup. The last Beavers pour their cups into the empty bucket.

Stringing along

Cut 75 to 100 pieces of string of varying lengths - from 2 inches to several feet. Hide each piece of string someplace in the room before Beavers arrive. Have Beavers stand in the middle of the room. Divide the groups into two teams and explain that you've hidden pieces of string, pointing out the more obvious ones. The object of the game is for each team to find and tie together as many strings as possible. Since the strings are not the same length, the winning team will not necessarily be the one with the largest number of strings, but the one with the longest line. When it seems that most strings have been found and tied, have teams stretch their lines of string next to each other to compare. The team with the longest string is the winner.

Icicle Tag

Choose one Beaver to be the 'sun', the rest of the Beavers are 'icicles'. The sun must run around and touch as many icicles as possible. When an icicle is touched, he must 'melt' and fall down. This continues until all the icicles are melted.

Pencil Game

A pencil is passed around to each Beaver, who is to mime an action with it, e.g., eating a cob of corn, hitting a ball, etc. The other Beavers have to guess what the action the Beaver is doing.

Feather Puff

The Beavers sit in a ring, which should not be too large. One of them throws up a small feather, and immediately all begin to blow it. No one must move any part of his body but the head. Should the feather fall on any Beaver that one is out of the game - thus the aim of each is to make the feather touch someone else, and to protect oneself. As fewer Beavers remain, they should draw into a smaller ring.