Download entire packet of Fifth Grade games by clicking this button:

or, you can download the games individually below:

One student names 10 things in a category and the other students act out some of them.

Foxes try to tag squirrels, but the ball the student catches makes him/her a fox or squirrel.

Students trace each other’s body on butcher paper and turn the “body shape” into a country complete with descriptions.

Students take a card with a positive note already written on it that describes the person next to him and explains why he/she took it.

Students try to stand up at the same time by using each other’s body as leverage.

Students wear a piece of masking tape on their forehead with a role written on it. During a discussion, students are treated the way the masking tape says to treat them.

Students write a letter to themselves describing their experience during cooperative games. They give the letter to the teacher who mails them in 3 months.

Students work together to go from “ship” to “island” and back, all the while avoiding the “lava”.

Students go from one side of the playing area to the other without being tagged.

Students talk to each other as if at a party and try to find out who is “it”.

Discuss how the possibility of being scared makes relaxing difficult.

A ball representing one object is passed around the circle one way while another ball representing a different object is going around the circle in the opposite direction.

All students in the group must touch one can without touching each other.

Each student writes 2 things about themselves that are true and 1 thing that is not. Then the 3 things are read to the whole group and the students try to determine which thing is not true.

Each student in the circle has a cup. All are empty except one. The student with the full cup uses only his elbows to pour the water in the next person’s cup. Continue around the circle.

Students answer questions without using these 4 words.

To download more games individually, go to the Fourth Grade, Third Grade, Second Grade, First Grade and Pre K and K pages. All of those games will also work for Fifth Grade.