This game is similar to “What time is it Mr. Wolf”.

Many animals like Gray Jays collect food and store them away in caches so that they may have food throughout the winter. A cache is like a jay’s refrigerator! Other animals, like magpies, like to steal from the Jay’s cache and use it as their own food source during the winter

• All participants will be the magpies and are spread out behind an imaginary line, waiting for their cue to advance and try to steal the cache

• 10m away is the Gray Jay (usually adult) with the cache item by their feet.

• The Gray Jay turns away and that is when the magpies can advance

• When the Gray Jay says “Where’s my cache”, they will turn around and the magpies must freeze (or hide)! Those who do not freeze must go back to the beginning behind the imaginary line and try again

• The Gray Jay turns back away and this allows for the magpies to continue forward

• The goal of the magpies is to steal the cache and sneakily bring it back to the starting line without getting caught by the Jay!

  • If a magpie is caught with the cache, they must return it to the Jay’s feet and go back to the starting line

  • It doesn’t matter how they get it back to the starting line! It may be one heroic magpie or all the magpies working together to pass the cache back to the start