I have been using Taskmaster in school for a few years now, to great effect. The following is a list of all the tasks I’ve done or heard about. They originate from the TV show, the Taskmaster book, Class Taskmaster, my brain, my colleagues and other teachers who have been enjoying Taskmaster in schools. However, most of the credit must go to the creator of Taskmaster, Alex Horne. If you have any more to add, please tweet me the suggestions and together we can create an extensive list of tasks for children (and teachers) to enjoy all over the world.

1. Scavenger Hunt
2. Paint a picture – blindfolded
3. Take an impressive photograph
4. Make something big appear small
5. Make something small appear big
6. Kick a rugby ball from one end of the field to the other while holding hands. If you let go, you start again
7. Score a goal from the furthest distance
8. Work out how long a ball of string is
9. Cross the playground in the least step
10. Find all of the playing card hidden around the school
11. Throw a tea bag into a mug from the furthest distance
12. Get an egg as high as possible, without breaking it
13. What is Mr Blake-Lobb’s age in minutes/seconds?
14. As a team, build the highest tower on the field. You have ten minutes starting from now.
15. Memorise the Highwayman poem
16. Set a task for another group
17. Melt the ice – fastest wins
18. Draw a flower with your weaker hand
19. Draw an upside down self-portrait using crayons
20. Make the most juice from these fruits
21. Make the best picture, using only this toilet roll.
22. Unveil a new handshake
23. Make something spin for the longest period of time
24. Make the best paper aeroplane. Furthest flight wins.
25. Score a goal with a shopping bag, each team member must kick the bag at least twice
26. CONNECTED TASK – Make the shopping bag as heavy as possible in ten minutes. It must then hang, unassisted, for one minute
27. Make the most impressive throw of something, into something
28. Do the most brilliant thing on a gym mat
29. While holding hands, kick a rugby ball from the round house to the year 6 table
30. Move the pallet as far as possible. You have 3 minutes. Go.
31. Eat the best picture out of a piece of bread
32. Guess the number on Mr Blake-Lobb’s left arm (the number had also been written on the cupboard door at the back of the room for 3 days).
33. Vote for the team you wish to receive 5 points. If you vote for your own team and don’t win, then you will lose 2 points
34. Write the lowest unique number on a whiteboard
35. Stand up for 100 seconds
36. Blindfolded, stack as many objects on top of each other as possible without falling (for at least five seconds)
37. Bring me someone who was born on the 28^th May 2011 (pick the date of birth of someone in your school)
38. Surprise Mr Allen
39. Impress Mr Wood
40. Make Mrs Humphreys say ‘bubbles’. You cannot use the word ‘bubbles’
41. Make Mrs Rowe laugh out loud. You must not touch her.
42. As a team, stage a performance of a nursery rhyme
43. Write and perform a song about this week
44. Bring in a book to read to a younger child
45. Tweet a joke to Penguins class, 1^st joke wins (Bonus for best joke)
46. Wear the most unusual hat to school tomorrow
47. Write the best 10 word story
48. Make the best Christ-Maths Tree
49. Make the best flag without using a flag
50. Decorate your classroom for Christmas
51. Line things up height order, longest line wins
52. Make the smallest piece of art
53. High five the oldest and youngest person, greatest age gap wins
54. Make the best domino show
55. Write and perform a tune with E, A and B in it
56. Create a Remembrance Day tribute
57. Recreate a famous book cover
58. Find all of the playing cards hidden around the school
59. Make the best piece of art using one toilet roll
60. Make the longest line of things that begin with the first letter of your team/class/school name
61. Make the biggest circle
62. Write an epic story in 280 characters or fewer
63. Create a cartoon character using things found in the classroom
64. Take a picture of the oldest thing in your school
65. Make the best snowman
66. Recreate a famous film scene
67. Make the biggest splash
68. Eat the most crackers in a minute
69. Put the most different things beginning with H, A and T in a hat
70. Show me a picture of a cow. You cannot draw a picture. You cannot use technology
71. Balance the biggest thing on your head
72. Eat the most watermelon
73. Remove your socks without using your hands – fastest wins
74. Build a den 2m x 1m x 1m. Driest wins
75. Create a throne
76. Fly a flag on the tallest, free-standing flagpole
77. Write a haiku about a task
78. Build the tallest card tower in 2 minutes
79. Balance the heaviest thing on the lightest thing. Greatest difference in weight wins
80. Find the biggest leaf
81. Line up in age/height order
82. Make the best entrance
83. Disguise yourself/team. Most disguised wins
84. Hide
85. Touch the door, fastest wins
86. Make an A4 piece of paper into the longest piece of paper possible in 2 minutes
87. List the most 5 letter words as you can
88. Write a verb for every letter of the alphabet
89. Make the longest paperchain
90. Build a kite, longest flight wins
91. Get a celebrity to Tweet about the school
92. Make a cool video in reverse
93. Film a slo-mo stunt
94. Work out how long a ball of string is without using rulers, tape measures, meter sticks, trundle wheels, or other traditional measuring devices
95. Identify the items in the sock/pillowcase
96. Carry a bowl of water around the track. Fastest wins. Bonus point for the most water
97. Throw as many balls of scrap paper over your shoulder and into the bin as you can. You have 5 throws per team member
98. Get this egg as far from the starting point as you can in 2 minutes. You may not use your hands
99. Find Miss Burrows. Quickest time wins. You must stay together as a team and ALL find her. You must walk in the school. Miss Burrows is not in another classroom or behind a security door
100. Throw the ball to a teammate and they must catch it. Furthest throw wins
101. Using the iPads, your team must take 5 photos around the school. The Taskmaster will try and identify where the photos were taken. You will score one point for each photo the Taskmaster guesses incorrectly. Photos must not be blurry
102. How much money is in the tins? Closest wins
103. Knock the heaviest item off the table from the furthest distance
104. Compose a tune using the pentatonic scale with at least three instruments
105. Using only natural things, make a picture of the Taskmaster
106. Using a strip of toilet paper stuck between two tables, balance the heaviest item
107. Reveal something surprising from under a blanket
108. Using two materials, design and build a device to move as much water as possible from one bucket to another
109. Create a device to time exactly 20 seconds using the equipment provided
110. Estimate the amount of water up to the line in the large bottle using the equipment provided
111. Create the best window art using the post-it notes provided
112. RELAY TASK – Choose the order you will go in. Put on the oven gloves, eat the banana, tie your laces and then pass on the oven gloves to the next person
113. Identify the items in the sleeping bag
114. Put as many blue M&M as you can in the other bowl, while wearing boxing gloves. 1 point for each blue M&M, negative points for each non-blue M&M.
115. Decorate the cake to represent what our school means to you
116. Draw the school crest from memory
117. Get the potato in the hole. You cannot touch the grass inside the circle with any part of your body
118. Score a basket with the ball. You may not touch the ball with your hands
119. Estimate the weight of the fruit (without the bowl). You may weigh anything EXCEPT the fruit in the bowl
120. Spot the missing item. Study the tray to 20 seconds. The Taskmaster will then cover the tray and removed an item. The winner is the first to spot the missing item
121. Get every member of another team to say a mystery word, without using the mystery word yourself
122. Find the heaviest blue, green and red items. You have 5 minutes
123. Sort a pack of playing cards into suits – fastest wins
124. Transfer rice from one saucer to another using chopsticks – most rice wins
125. Put the cover on the duvet, while holding hands
126. Transfer dried butter beans from one saucer A to saucer B, while a member of the opposing team is transferring kidney beans from saucer B to saucer A. Use straws to suck the beans to transfer them.

If you do your own Taskmaster activities in school, why not use this video from Alex Horne to introduce it? The password is schooltaskmaster. Enjoy.