Together with your friends you can enlarge your vocabulary and build word power with the help of this amusing exercise. One person from the team selects a random word from the vocabulary each week, the stranger the better. For instance, kerfuffle, obfuscate, bodacious, menagerie, etc. When a new word is introduced, each member of the group thinks of how to use it in everyday conversations and insert it into speech talking to parents, other friends etc. You are not allowed to tell anyone that this is one of your fun summer games. People may think there is something wrong with you, but you can explain later. Just imagine what a fun it will be to share your experience with your teammates, discuss strange looks, confusion, reaction of your close people, etc.

You can also try an arithmetic chain, starting with a complex equitation, every person adds a new portion of equitation during the week and at the end of the week all friends compare their results. If the results differ, the correct result can be found together, with the discussion of the wrong steps.

These are only two possibilities of fun summer games, you can invent many of them turning on your imagination or look for them on-line.

The Summer X Games are as a rule held in August on the territory of the United States of America. The winners of the competition get bronze, silver and gold medals and also prize money. The competition very often features new tricks, for instance double backflip in Freestyle Motocross, performed by Travis Pastrana and Anthony Napolitan’s first double front flip on a bicycle. Together with X Games, ‘X Fest’ is taking place; it is a sports and music festival that offers a live music and athlete sessions plus interactive components.

The location for the Summer X Games is in Los Angeles. Together with this X Games holds international competitions in different parts of the world at various times throughout a year. The games are broadcasted live on television.

Summer X Games include: Moto, consisting of Best Whip, Speed & Style, Best Trick, Freestyle, Enduro X, Step Up and Adaptive; Rally comprising Car Racing and Car SuperRally; Skateboarding including Vert, Park, Street, Big Air, Best Trick and S-K-A-T-E; and BMX composed of Freestyle Vert, Freestyle Park, Freestyle Street, Freestyle Big Air.

‘Fill it up’.
This game is best played outdoors. If you get the kids to play this several times, they’ll be sure to sleep well that night! The game is appropriate for the kids from five to twelve years old. To play this game you will need: four buckets, small plastic cups and a measuring cup to see which team wins. The game presents an aerobic team race with the objective of water transferring. The team that brings more water wins. How to play: divide children in two teams, fill one of each team’s bucket with water, put an empty bucket across the field, line up the members of each team behind the full bucket and let them taking turns putting water in their cups and bringing it to the empty bucket, they need to avoid spilling water to bring more. The game is finished when the water is transferred from the full bucket to an empty one. Using a measuring cup, see what team has more water ad they are the winners. A great variant of summer games for kids!

‘Barefoot and marble-ous’ is another variant of the same game. Instead of the buckets you will need Frisbees and approximately 50 marbles (25 for each team). The objective is the same as in the game with water, but instead of it the participants will need to transfer marbles in their feet from the full Frisbee to an empty one.

No matter what summer games for kids you select, make sure they are interesting, pleasurable, fun and active.

Campers will be more interested in playing a game if you are playing with them, so participating in a game is paramount. Participate and have fun, but don’t play with the skills above your campers, as this is unfair and even can be dangerous. Make sure that all the participants of the summer camp games are equally active when playing. Don’t let the more active and athletic kids dominate the game and leave the less active campers on the sideline. It is a fact that games become more fun, when the score becomes not important. Try to limit the focus on ‘losing’ or ‘winning’, concentrating on fun and being active. To make the old games more interesting, change the rules, this will refresh the games kids can become bored with. In order to lead a successful game, you must learn the games from all the levels: the children can be of different physical levels, the game can depend on weather, various personalities, etc. Always, always and once again, always encourage fairplay, teamwork and sportsmanship! Only positive comments work for the game. A very important rule is to stop the game when campers are still having fun. If you play till the moment kids are tired and bored, they most probably wouldn’t like to return to this game. Let children lead games.

No matter what summer camp games you will choose, most of all enjoy them and have fun!

The Summer Games 2012 will take place from July 27 to August 12. Over 10 000 athletes from more than 200 participating nations will be competing in 300 events for 26 sports, but only few of them would deserve the so cherished Olympic medals.

You would definitely don’t want to miss this! Lots of travel agencies offer a variety of travel programs, professionally hosted for you to see the most exciting and distinguished attractions. Don’t miss your chance to be an eye-witness of the Summer Games 2012 in London and use the pre-arranged option, available in your local tourist agencies. Choose the most suitable option for you and make sure your tickets are available. The earlier you consult your travel agency, the more chances you have for combination in any configuration, suitable for various budgets, preferences and needs to complement your experience.