Honey Monster 🐝🍯🐻
Honey Monster 🐝🍯🐻
Setup:
· Teams: 2–4 teams, each starting in a corner next to their coloured honey pot (this could be a hoop or a circle made from traffic cones).
· Hive: Scatter lots of yellow dome cones across the central playing area. Under each yellow cone, place a coloured cone (blue, red, green, etc.) to represent the honey’s flavour/colour.
· Honey Monster: A coach or designated player sits in the middle of the hive pretending to sleep.
How to Play:
1. Players are worker bees. Using their rackets, they carefully lift yellow cones to check the colour underneath.
2. If the colour matches their team’s honey pot, they collect it and place it in their pot.
3. After collecting honey, they must replace the yellow cone on top so other teams don’t know where their colour is hiding.
4. Every so often, the Honey Monster “wakes up” (coach shouts or blows whistle). Bees must run back to their pots for safety.
5. After a set time, count the number of matching honeys each team has — the most wins.
Progression:
· Stingers: Each bee wears a scarf tucked into their waistband (their “stinger”).
· Coaches (or Honey Monster) try to steal stingers.
· If caught, a bee must crawl on hands and knees one lap around the hive to get their stinger back before rejoining the game.
Variations & Challenges:
1. Monster Chases: When awake, Honey Monster can chase bees — if tagged, they lose a piece of honey.
2. Guard Bees: Add 1–2 “guard bees” from each team who try to block other teams’ access to their coloured honey.
3. Sneaky Swap: Allow players to steal honey from other teams’ pots if they reach them undetected.
4. Timed Wake-ups: Monster wakes up at regular intervals (e.g., every 30 seconds).
5. Double Honey: Hide some cones with two matching coloured cones underneath for bonus points.
Seasonal alternatives for your Honey Monster 🐝🍯🐻 game — perfect for adapting the theme to Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentine’s, and Mother’s/Father’s Day:
🎄 Christmas – “The Gingerbread Monster” 🍬🎅🍪
Worker elves are collecting sweets and cookies from the snowy forest (yellow cones).
🎄 Flavours are peppermint, gingerbread, chocolate, etc. (represented by different cone colours).
🎅 The Gingerbread Monster sleeps in the middle of the forest but wakes randomly to chase the elves and steal their sweets!
🐣 Easter – “Easter Chick Chase” 🐥🥚
Teams are bunnies or chicks collecting Easter eggs hidden under yellow cones.
🐣 The Mother Hen or Giant Chick guards the field — if they wake up and catch a player, that player must drop their egg and return to the start.
Egg colours match each team's basket (cones or hoops).
🎃 Halloween – “The Candy Monster” 🍭👻
Teams of little witches and wizards are trick-or-treating for hidden sweets under yellow cones.
👹 The Candy Monster guards the haunted town — if players get too greedy, he wakes up and chases them back to their cauldron.
Use spooky cone decorations and Halloween-themed beanbags for extra fun.
💘 Valentine’s – “Love Bug Hunt” 💌🐞
Players are love bugs collecting hidden hearts or love notes (coloured cones) from under pink/yellow domes.
💘 A sleepy Love Monster guards the meadow and wakes up to chase any love bugs wandering too long!
👩👧👦 Mother’s/Father’s Day – “Breakfast in Bed Monster” 🛏️☕🥐
Children are little chefs gathering breakfast ingredients (coloured cones) from under “toast” domes (yellow cones).
🥱 The Sleepy Parent Monster is in bed and wakes up if they hear too much racket!
If caught, the chefs must redo the task — quiet teamwork wins!