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Say it my way

Karen, Singapore

Either

A simple group theatrical game suited for parties

No materials

1. Sit in a circle.

2. First child says a sentence and the group members copy one by one.

3. After the circle is complete, next person chooses a sentence and style and the game goes on.

Karen, Singapore

Group

1. Children stand in a circle.
2. Each child gets a number.
3. The last child starts by calling a number.
4. The child with that number calls another number and so on.
5. Rules

• Respond quickly
• number should be within the group and not your own or else the child is out
• The child who is out goes at the end of the circle and all those who were after him move up. They need to remember a new number and the game goes on

Karen, Singapore

Group

1. Children stand in a circle.
2. Each child gets an animal name. 
3. The last child starts by calling out an animal name from the group.
4. The child with that animal calls another animal and so on.
5. Rules

• Respond quickly
• Animal name should be within the group and not your own or else the child is out
• The child who is out goes at the end of the circle and all those who were after him move up. They need to remember a new animal name and the game goes on.

Karen, Singapore

Group

1. When the music stops, a slip is pulled out. That child says something (sentence, rhyme, song) in his/her own style.
2. The group has to imitate.
3. When the music  starts, children start dancing.
4. The game goes on till all children have had a chance to say their sentence.

Group

1. Sit in a circle.
2. One child moves around the circle telling a story.
3. The child taps on a person sitting in the circle. Now that child who has been tapped has to continue the story while the earlier child sits down.
4. And the game continues.
5. It can be a lot of fun making silly stories

Jenny, UK

Group

1. Sit in a circle with a ball in your hand. You start telling a story. You keep making-up the story till you don’t toss the ball to a child.
2. Now the child needs to continue the story. He/she can talk till the time the ball is in his/her hands. After a while the child tosses the ball to another child and the game goes on.
3. It can be a lot of fun making silly stories.

Nethra , USA

Group

1. Sit in a circle.
2. The first Child starts by saying, "At the zoo, I saw   tiger".
3. The next Child must repeat "At the zoo, I saw tiger ..." and add another animal.
4. This continues all the way around the circle with children reciting the animals in the exact order they have been given and then adding a new one.
5. If a child makes a mistake they slide out of the circle and the
   game continues.
6. The last one to recite perfectly will start a new circle with new sequence (for ex colours, vegetables, fruits, shapes, object……….)

Dress-up fun

Mom1123, UK

1. Shorten clothes so that the children don’t trip while playing.
2. Have a large unbreakable mirror closeby for the kids to admire themselves.
3. The kids can pretend to be different people doing different kinds of activities. They could even make up a story themselves which they dramatise. Using face paints, you can make moustache, rosy cheeks etc.

Yamini, USA

1. Make postcards for delivery by cutting out rectangular cards (6"x4") and pasting shape cut-outs on them.
2. Make sure, all cut-outs of a particular shape are of the same color. 
3. Paste one shape cut-out on the mail-box of the house as well. The shape on the mail-box is the address of the house.
4. Make postcard sets for deliveries. Each set would have one card of each shape.
5. Put-up houses on the wall with a plate below for collecting deliveries.
6. Children are Postmen who make deliveries.
7. Each postman is given a set of postcards to deliver. The shape on the postcard shows the address where it has to be delivered.
8. The Post-man has to match the post-card’s address (the shape) to the mail-box on the house and make a delivery.
9. Each postman can get a sticker at the end of making deliveries.

Play to the music

Dalila, UK

1. Play music on the player. The kids try to play their instruments with the music.
2. Try different songs playing them loud and soft

Fishing game

Nethra, USA

Learning:  Same/ different,  counting,  judging the distance , drawing fishes, cutting along the lines

Construction papers, marker, paper clips, small sticks,

Thread/ yarn, magnets, ice cream buckets/large ice cream tubs

1. Draw and cut fish pictures out of construction paper as many as possible in various shapes and colors.   Put paper clip on each of them near the mouth
2. Draw a large circle (pretend lake).   Scatter those fishes in lake.
3. Take a stick, tie one end of thread / yarn to the stick and other end of yarn with a   magnet. That becomes fishing rod.  Magnet holds fish thro clip for fishing. Collect them in fishing bucket (ice cream tub)
4. Rules: For infants and toddlers it’s simple fishing game.  They randomly fish and put them in bucket.
5. For kids who recognize colors ask them to catch a particular color fishes, collect them in their own bucket and count their catch at the end.
6. For 3+ year olds set up more rules like if they stand/ touch the water (pretend) inside the lake, the fishes they collected in their bucket jumps back in water.  If the circle is large and fishes are scattered in distance kids will be able to judge the distance and move to the nearest place.

Mancala

Nethra, USA

How to Make It

1. Remove the lid of the carton. Paint the egg carton in the color desired. Let dry.
2. Paint the jell-o cups (mancala) on the outside. Let dry.

RULES:

1.      Place the egg carton between the two players, lengthwise and two mancala (jell-o cup) on sides.

2.      The cups of the carton towards you are yours. The Mancala (jell-o cup) to your right is yours.

3.      Place 4 marbles in each of the cups of egg carton. Choose a player to go first.  The first player picks up all the marbles in one of his cups.

4.      The player then starts sowing one marble in each cup moving clockwise. If he reaches the end of his side, he is to drop one marble in his Mancala, then continue around to the other side of the board.

5.        He is not, however, to drop a marble in his opponent's Mancala. Keep sowing until you reach an empty hole.

6.       Take the marbles from the cup ahead of the empty cup and bank in your mancala.

7.       Now player2 gets his turn. Keep playing until all the marbles are banked. Player with the most marbles in his mancala wins.

8.      While the game seems random for beginners but after playing it a few times, players will arrive at strategies to bank more marbles in their mancala.

Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?

Dalila, UK

Group

A short turn taking game encouraging children to respond at the correct time

No materials

1. Sit in a circle.

2. You start by naming a child who stole the cookies from the cookie jar(say ABC).

3. The game goes like this

• Everyone sings – who stole the cookies from the cookie jar? ABC stole the cookies from the cookie jar

• ABC – Who, me?

• Everyone – Yes, you!

• ABC – Couldn’t be!

• Everyone – Then who?

• ABC – XYZ stole the cookies from the cookies jar.(another child’s name)

• XYZ – who me?

And the game continues until everybody’s name has been called out.

Dragon’s tail

Ester, USA

1. Children stand in a line.
2. Each child holds the child in front around the waist thus forming a long chain.
3. The child right in the beginning is the head and the last one is the tail.
4. The head has to tag the tail so the head shall try to move in different ways to tag the tail.
5. Once this happens, the head moves in the end to become the tail and the second in line becomes the head.

Duck Duck Goose

Aliya, UAE

Group

1. Kids sit in a circle.
2. One child “IT” walks around the outside of the circle tapping each child on the head saying Duck, duck, etc.
3. When he taps one and says Goose, the goose has to chase the “IT” and tag him. If “IT” reaches the goose’s empty spot before being tagged, the goose becomes the “IT” or else the “IT” continues tapping kids. 

Aim the coins

 Yamini, USA

1. Place the rings at the bottom of the pail filled with water.
2. Divide the children into 2 teams giving each team equal number of coins.
3. The teams aim to drop the coins inside the rings.
4. The team with most coins inside wins.

Who is it?

 Rebecca, USA

1. One child is the “IT” who is blindfolded.
2. He counts to 10 (or lesser depending on the age of the kids) and all the kids take a step back on each count.
3. Now the “IT” moves to find a player.
4. When he touches a child he asks, “who is it?”
5. The child answers back in a disguised voice. The “IT” has to guess the child’s name.
6. “IT” tries to guess atleast one child correctly. The first child to be identified correctly becomes the “IT”

Birds Fly

 Yamini, USA

1. The leader calls out “Parrots fly, pigeons fly, elephants fly….”
2. When he names something that flies, the children flap their arms. Otherwise they keep their arms on their side.
3. Who makes a mistake is out and the last one left is the leader.

Chair Ring Toss

Aliya, UAE

1. Draw a line on the floor with a chalk.
2. Players stand behind that line while throwing the rings on the legs of an upturned chair.

1. Two kids stand side by side.
2. You tie the right ankle of one to the left ankle of the other.
3. Pairs of players race to finish the race to the end.

Kiddies Kiddies run for your supper

 Rebecca, USA

1. Children sit in a circle.
2. The “Clock” walks around the circle.
3. It stops between two kids and extends its arms between them saying “kiddies, kiddies run for your supper”.
4. The two children run in opposite directions away from the clock and back to touch it.
5. The first player to touch the clock becomes the next clock and the game continues.