Echo Location

Creation for Kids in Church Camps

EAI – Boink

This game follows the same rules as Marco Polo, and so needs little explanation to most campers, but it explores a unique ability of dolphins and whales to “see” in dark, deep water without using their eyes.

Choose one person to be a dolphin, and instruct this person to close their eyes. Demonstrate the high-pitched squeal (the higher and more obnoxious, the better) which this person should make for the rest of the game. The other campers recognize fish, which the dolphin will try to tag and eat. Explain that when the dolphin squeals facing one of the fish, the fish must answer back, “Boink.” Because fish must always be ready to answer the dolphin, they are not allowed to swim under water. Start the game by allowing five seconds when the dolphin is under water for the fish to scatter throughout the pool. The game continues until a dolphin captures a fish, in which case the fish becomes the new dolphin.