Recreation Ideas That Truly Excite High School Students! A Fun Collection of Activities
Great news for high school students looking for new games to liven up your class or club! Here, we’ll introduce fun recreational activities that strengthen bonds with your friends—from brain-teasing games to get-you-moving activities.
They’re easy to prepare and work well for both small and large groups.
We’ve packed in exciting, heart-pounding ideas perfect for sleepovers and class recreation, too.
Give them a try and make awesome memories with your friends!
Exciting and Funny Games (1–10)
Vaguely Remembered Drawing Showdown
This “half-remembered drawing battle,” which has been featured on TV shows and the like, is a surefire way to get everyone excited with almost anyone.
If you pick things like popular anime characters that people don’t often see but know by name, animals, or highly distinctive artists, you’ll be cracking up at everyone’s hazy memories, recall skills, and drawing abilities.
Decide the winner from two angles: how well-drawn the picture is and how much it resembles the subject.
Even if you don’t pick a winner, it’s guaranteed to be a hit!
Debate game of stating the obvious
It’s a debate game where multiple people can chat and play together by refuting obvious statements.
First, choose someone to set the topic, and have them state something that’s taken for granted.
Next, the person who’s called on must argue against that topic—that’s the rule.
Because you’re asked to give opinions on obvious things, surprising words and funny phrases come out, making it a lot of fun.
It’s also great to play with themes like common experiences at school or in your class.
Try making it a team competition or a tournament to really liven things up.
NG word game
Let’s play the NG Word Game—it’s something you can do anywhere with just paper and pens, and you don’t have to worry about the number of players! Write various words at random on pieces of paper, shuffle them, and hand them out.
Hold the card you drew at your forehead so that you can’t see it yourself, but everyone else can.
Sit in a circle and have a casual conversation, but the word written on your own card is your NG (forbidden) word—if you say it, you’re out.
The key is to write words that naturally come up in conversation on the cards, and to steer the conversation while probing others so they’ll end up saying their NG word.
Communication game
Set a theme and imagine an answer that can be expressed using a number of characters equal to the number of participants.
Each person gives the single character corresponding to their turn, and you all check whether everyone is on the same wavelength.
It’s a game where off-the-wall responses may appear, and you can get excited discovering surprising ideas.
Perfect Match Game
It’s a game where you keep asking questions to match a preset number and try to get closer to that target.
It might be more fun to choose a large number so you can ask lots of questions.
By pretending to ask ordinary questions, you might be able to find out things like how many people someone has dated, their family situation, or other private secrets… and that could make the conversation take an unexpectedly exciting turn.
Doobee-doo-badoo game
If you’re looking for a game that will hype up your classmates or club members, the Doobi-Dooba-Doo Game is highly recommended.
The “parent” points at someone while saying the phrase “Doo-doo-doo,” and the chosen person replies with “Doobi-dooba-doo.” Depending on the type of finger used, it can be a fake-out, or everyone raises their finger together—those are the basic rules.
The key is to keep it snappy, passing the baton one after another.
Try different variations, like repeating the same motion several times or suddenly switching to a different person, and have fun with it!
Trivia Quiz
How many trivia questions can you answer? A lot of people probably don’t know much about them or aren’t very interested, since it’s not something you need to know—but there are plenty of fun questions, and once you start you might find it addictive.
Give it a try with your friends! If you can answer them all, that’s pretty impressive.
You can learn while you play, so it’s also a chance to discover things you didn’t know.
It’ll give you material for future conversations, too.
If you’re interested, try it with a big group for even more fun!
