Glow sticks are great for all ages. We love to hand them out during fireworks, late night games, Halloween and even taking them camping. Not only are they awesome to wear while you’re running around playing but they make some great games too. With just a few supplies and your glow sticks you can put these games together at your next gathering!

Ring Toss Game

Supplies – glow sticks, wooden dowels and rubber bands

To set this game up you’ll simply take one of your glow sticks and tie it onto your wooden dowel with the rubber bands. Then stick your dowel into the ground and step back. Each take turns tossing your glow sticks (link them together to form a ring with the bracelet attachments) towards the dowel/glow stick.

Tic Tac Toe 

Supplies – glow sticks

It’s a simple yet fun game to play in the dark. You’ll attach your glow sticks together using the bracelet attachments that comes with your glow sticks. Create your tic tac toe board then make 5 of the X’s and 5 of the O’s out of glow sticks. This is a great one to play while camping or with neighbors.

Glow Stick Capture the Flag 

Supplies – glow sticks (2 per player) 2 separate colors, 2 larger glow sticks (or connect multiple together) for your “flag”

The game rules are the same for if you were playing capture the flag but in the dark with glow sticks. Each player will have one glow stick around each wrist and all the players on that team will wear the same color glow stick. You are able to “hide” your glow stick while trying to capture the flag but you are not allowed to put them under your sleeve or shirt (you can find them behind your back).

Glow Stick Tag 

Supplies – Glow sticks

For set up you’ll need to create one large circle by connecting two glow sticks together. This is for the person who is “it” to carry around with them. Everyone else will need to attach 1 glow stick to each of their wrists. (If playing with a large group you could just have each player use one glow stick). Then start then game – once a player has been tagged by the person who is “it”, they’ll need to remove 1 of their glow stick bracelets and hand it to the tagger. The tagger then adds that bracelet to their large circle and continues onward. (Note: no one else can be tagged until the tagger has added the bracelet to the larger circle) Game is over once the tagger has collected all the glow sticks.

Bowling 

Supplies – Glow sticks, 6-plastic bottles, water, soccer ball or similar

To begin you’ll need to fill the 6 plastic bottles with water and activate your glow sticks and put them in each bottle (you might want to add 2 or 3 to each bottle to get a good glow). Then set up your water bottles and begin bowling! To make the game extra fun you can search for a glow in the dark ball.