What to Wear
Encourage everyone to wear gear from their favorite college team, and if they don't have a college team they love, just wear any sports gear. Give a costume prize to whoever looks the sportiest.
Games & MixersIndoor Knockout
Play knockout with a nerf hoop. If you have a big club, borrow a couple hoops. You can go with the stand alone kind or the one that hangs on a door.
Dunk Contest/3 pt Competition
Again, use a nerf hoop. Have "celebrity judges" who are dressed in skit clothes and use accents and award for creativity, style, and level of difficulty. Pre-select participants. Have them wear costumes: basketball jerseys, headbands, wristbands, tall socks, etc...
You could also do a 3 point competition with similar style.
Free Throw Competition with
THE CURTAIN OF DISTRACTION
Draw 64
Put the #'s 1-64 in a hat/bowl/bag. 64 kids will draw and then represent the corresponding team to that number (as the teams are seeded in the NCAA tourney). As the tourney unfolds, whoever is paired with the winning team wins $ off of summer camp. If you don't have 64 kids at club, get each person to draw twice, having a better chance to win.
Cookie Sheet Ping Pong
Set up a cookie sheet as a mini-basketball court. Place a ping-pong ball on it, and one person on each end. The object is to blow the ball to the other side first. Have them play one round, and then raise the stakes, doing the next round blindfolded. After they are blindfolded, place the ball on a mound of flour in the middle of the cookie sheet. (via YLPlaybook.com: Ping Pong Ball Fight Game)
Name That Mascot
Download different mascot images, put them in a power point. Have kids "buzz in" when the image appears if they know the name of the school it represents. If anyone wants to make a Power Point "Guess that Mascot" game and email it to us, you might just find some sweet YL gear in your mailbox.
MUSIC
- Use the Sports Center theme song as background music for a game.
- At the end of club play "One Shining Moment" as kids are leaving.
- For your 30 second dance party, do The John Wall.
If you have other ideas to add, email us here.