Safari
Safari (Circle Game)
Safari helps with Concentration and quick reaction skills.
There are variations in the animals used, but it is usually kept to three or four. For our games, we usually use Elephant, Lion, and Croc, but we have also seen Meerkat and various other animals used by others. Sometimes we will add meerkat in as a fourth animal if we play a second round.
How to Play:
1. Everyone stands in a big circle.
2. The person starting the game puts their hands together (fingers out straight), raises their arms straight up in the air above their head and then “chops” straight down pointing to and making eye contact directly with someone else in the circle while calling out one of the three chosen animals for the game.
3. The person that has just been chopped and the people on either side then move to action.
—a. Elephant: The person in the center puts their face in their shoulder and uses their arm as a trunk and makes an elephant-like noise, while the people on his/her left or right forms the ears by making a circle with their arms and pointing putting it against the “elephant’s” head.
—b. Lion: The person in the center throws out his hands like claws and roars, while the people on either side form a big circle around the center person with all four of their arms as if a mane.
—c. Croc: The person in the center throws their arms in the arm and yells, “Aah!”, while the people on either side use their arms as Crocodile mouths and chomp down on their victim.
—d. Meerkat: The person in the center stands on his/her tip-toes at attention and pulls their hands in front of them kind of like a squirrel and calls out “All clear!”, while the people on either side duck down slightly and do the same thing with their hands, but looking off in opposite directions.
4. If everyone does the action successfully, the person in the center of the three will then continue by chopping at someone else and calling out one of the animals. OR If anyone of those three do the wrong action or hesitates, then they areout. You can either do it as single person or the group of three depending on how large the group is.
5. The person that chopped them would then chop someone else.
6. When there are only 4 or less people left, the game is basically over and you can declare them all winners or switch to a different game to decide a final winner.