7 Ways To Make Dodgeball Games More Extreme

We all love good dodgeball games! Not only does it unleash safe foam-fueled chaos in the youth club but it’s also a great cathartic exercise for leaders and young people to take out their frustrations on each other!

1. Replace the balls with Nerf gunsNerf guns and bullets are fantastic! They’re soft, they’re fast and they aim well! You can take it to a whole new level and add goggles and body armour too. Don’t buy branded, shops like £stretcher tend to have cheep & cheerful versions that work well enough.
2. Replace the hall with a box fort for urban warfareThis takes some prep time – but well worth it. Fill the room with 5ft high cardboard box walls in L and U shapes with the odd window cutout. You can gaffer tape these together or leave them loose to add growing battle damage to a room. Local supermarkets are usually very happy to give you as many flat packed boxes as you want!
3. Add teams and senariosDifferent colour balls (or nerf guns bullets) with personal lives and bases. Add some wide game scenarios like capture the flag.
4. Make it wetOutdoor dodgeball games with sponges and buckets… need I say more?
5. Add gun placements, cluster bombs and minesA couple of upturned gopack tables with a huge store of ammo makes a great gun placement. Plastic bags filled with ball pool balls are fab cluster bombs. Finally soft play or home gym mats can be constantly added to the floor as mines.
6. Use the dragonThe group starts off in a fast moving conga line, when the line gets hit it breaks at the person it touches (and they’re out) into two lines. The dragons keep getting smaller – it’s last man standing!
7. Blindfold the throwersWhy not?

8? Got more ideas?Do you have other ways to make dodgeball games more extreme? Comment below!