Hobbies And Interests
Hot Potato
There are plenty of simple physical games to play around a campfire, such as Hot Potato, which everyone can play while singing a campfire song. All it entails is tossing an object around the circle as quickly as possible -- no one wants to be caught holding the ball or whatever item you're using when the song ends. Inevitably, of course, someone will be holding it on the song's last note and therefore get eliminated from the game, which goes on for as many rounds as there are players.
Name That Tune
Music goes hand-in-hand with sitting around a campfire. Play a game of Name That Tune by turning on the radio and having campers guess the name of the song that's playing. Whoever guesses first gets a point and whoever first reaches a pre-determined number of points, wins.Another way to play is to have one camper think of a song and hum it until someone guesses what it is.
Question Games
Twenty Questions is a game where one person picks out a noun -- such as a person, place or thing -- and the other campers try to guess what it is by asking only "yes" or "no" questions. The campers must guess what the noun is within 20 questions.
Truth or Dare is another question-and-answer game where one person at a time picks a "truth" or "dare" challenge. If the player selects a "truth" challenge, she must answer another camper's question honestly. If she picks a "dare" challenge, she must perform the dare put to her.
Word Games
Word games can help inject some humor to a campfire gathering. Telephone is a word game where one person starts the game by whispering a sentence into the ear of the person next to him. That person then repeated it to the next person and so on, until the last person says aloud what he heard, which is often far removed from its origin.
Two Truths and a Lie is a game where the players take turns making three statements about themselves, one of which is not true, and the other campers try to pick out the lie.