Broken Forest🌲🎾🍎👹
🌲 Story Setup
The naughty trolls 👹 have knocked down the forest 🌳 and stolen the fruit 🍎🍌🍓!
Some trees have survived, but they need the stolen fruit to grow strong again 🌱.
Your mission: sneak through the broken forest, collect the fallen fruit, and return it to the trees without waking the trolls 😴👂!
🧺 Equipment
🌲 Broken Trees: Traffic cones tipped on their side — scattered to make a forest maze.
🍉 Fruit: Round dome cones in bright colours, placed beyond the forest.
🌳 Healthy Trees: Tall, upright traffic cones at the far end — one per fruit colour.
🎯 How to Play:
🚦 Start: Children begin on one side of the forest, with their rackets
🌲 Through the Forest:
→ Players weave through the fallen trees carefully — no touching or knocking them down!
🍎 Collecting Fruit:
→ At the far side, they find fallen fruit (round cones) and have to weave them back through the forest using their rackets (fruits/cones on the floor)
→ Children to either push from behind with the racket 🎾 or drag gently from the front — no hands allowed! 🙅♀️
🏃♂️ Return Journey:
→ Carefully guide the fruit back through the maze without waking the trolls 👀.
🌳 Delivery:
→ Match the fruit colour to the right healthy tree and place it down gently.
Feathers
Younger children can balance the cones on their strings rather than dragging or pushing on the floor.
If this is too difficult, the children can hold the cones in their hand.
Progressions
1. Troll Guards: Coaches or players act as trolls who try to steal fruit from anyone carrying it.
2. Touch Penalty: If a player touches a tree, they must return to the start.
3. Timed Rescue: Teams have 2 minutes to collect as much fruit as possible.
4. Double Fruit: Allow players to try and carry two fruits at once (more risk, more reward).
5. Reverse Run: Trolls can only steal fruit inside the forest — encourage careful dodging.
6. You could add footballs to dribble (hockey style) as well
Variations
· Relay Mode: One player at a time per team collects fruit.
· Silent Forest: No speaking allowed — if a player talks, the trolls wake up!
· Trap Trees: Some fallen trees are “unstable” — if touched, player must freeze for 5 seconds before moving again.
Seasonal alternatives
Its always fun to adapt the game to the season, some ideas are below but you can always try a valentines addition, mothers/father’s day use your imagination.
🎄 Christmas Alternative – "Santa's Forest Rescue"
The Christmas trees have lost their baubles! Sneak through the snowy forest to collect fallen baubles (round cones) and hang them on the upright Christmas trees (tall cones). Watch out for mischievous elves trying to tangle you in tinsel! 🎁🎄🧝♂️
🐣 Easter Alternative – "Egg Hunt in the Woods"
The Easter Bunny has hidden eggs (round cones) deep in the forest. Carefully navigate the broken trees and retrieve the eggs without waking the snoozing foxes 🦊. Deliver the eggs to matching colour baskets at the edge of the forest. 🐰🥚🌼
🎃 Halloween Alternative – "Haunted Forest"
Spooky pumpkins (orange cones) have rolled into the haunted woods! Players must sneak past ghost trees and return the pumpkins to their spooky shrines before the witches catch them. No touching the haunted trees or the ghosts may wake! 👻🎃🕸️