Card relay
A relay race where teams have to collect cards
- 6+ years
- Group size: 8+
- Duration: 20 min
- Relay
- Mountains, forests and fields
- Gym / Sports hall
- Open space
- Deck of cards
Divide the group into four teams. Each team is assigned its own corner of the gym as their ‘base’.
Spread a deck of cards face down across the centre of the hall. Each team is assigned a suit to collect: hearts, clubs, spades or diamonds.
On the signal, one pupil from each team runs to the centre, turns over a card and checks whether the suit matches their team’s.
- If it is the correct suit, the pupil takes the card back to base.
- If it is the wrong symbol, the card is placed back face down in the same spot.
Once a pupil is back at the base, the next pupil can run out. The team that manages to collect all 13 cards of their symbol first wins.
The game works particularly well with music playing in the background.