🎡 Challenge Wheel

What you need

Equipment: A wheel (a drawn poster with a spinner, or a wheel app). Make a wheel (drawn on poster board with an arrow, or a spinner app on a phone) with 6 sections: Joke, Impression, Song, Physical Challenge, Question and Buga's Choice. Prepare 4 ideas for each section.

How to play Challenge Wheel

1. Show the wheel and read out what each section means.
2. The first player spins the wheel.
3. Announce the section and give a specific task, like "Impression: a teacher who lost her marker."
4. The player has 15 seconds to think and up to a minute to perform.
5. The group judges with applause, soft or loud.
6. Landed on Buga's Choice? The adult picks the most challenging task on the list.
7. Same section twice in a row? The player gets a harder version.
8. Pass the wheel to the next player.

Scoring and wrapping up

Scoring: Task completed: 2 points. Extra loud applause: 1 bonus point. Refusing a task: 0 points and skip a turn.

To finish: After 2-3 rounds, add up the points and crown the Wheel Champion.

By age

• Ages 5-7: simple physical tasks and animal impressions. Read the task out loud for them.
• Ages 8 and up: add jokes, songs and harder versions of each task.

Variations

• Big group: play in teams, and the whole team performs the task together.
• Buga twist: the player who spins may pass the task to someone else, but then must do the next one themselves.

Tips for the adult in charge

• A free spinner app on a phone works perfectly.
• Let a shy child swap their task for a different one in the same section.

Safety

Keep tasks safe and never embarrassing.

🖨️ Printable wheel tasks

Cut out the tasks and sort them by section. Draw one when the wheel lands.

• Joke: Tell a knock-knock joke.
• Joke: Tell any joke in a robot voice.
• Joke: Make up a joke about a banana.
• Joke: Tell a joke while standing on one leg.
• Impression: A teacher who lost her marker.
• Impression: A cat seeing a cucumber.
• Impression: A sports commentator at a snail race.
• Impression: A baby trying its first lemon.
• Song: Sing Happy Birthday like an opera singer.
• Song: Sing a nursery rhyme as fast as you can.
• Song: Sing a line from any song while whispering.
• Song: Make up a song about pizza.
• Physical Challenge: Hop like a frog around the room.
• Physical Challenge: Balance on one foot for 15 seconds.
• Physical Challenge: Do 5 star jumps while saying the alphabet.
• Physical Challenge: Walk like a penguin to the door and back.
• Question: What is your favorite thing about today?
• Question: Which animal would you like as a best friend?
• Question: If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
• Question: What's the funniest thing that ever happened to you?